SOCIAL SCIENCE PLAZA A, ROOM 2112

BULLET LEAD

9:00-9:40	Professor Hal Stern UCI Dept. of Statistics	"The Bullets Match...But Who Cares?"
9:40-10:20	Professor William Thompson UCI Dept of Criminology, Law and Society	"Assessing the Legal Relevance of Bullet Lead Evidence: Did the NRC Misfire?"

10:20-10:30

Q&A Discussion

10:30-10:40

BREAK in SSPA 2142

DNA

10:40- 11:20	Professor William Thompson UCI Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society	"Evaluating and Explaining the Probative Value of Forensic DNA Evidence"
11:20-11:50	Discussant: Professor Sandy Zabell Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern
11:50-12:00	Q&A Discussion

12:00-1:30

LUNCH

FINGERPRINTS

1:30-2:10	Assistant Professor Simon Cole UCI Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society	"Towards Measurement of Fingerprint Accuracy"
2:10-2:40	Discussant: Professor Sandy Zabell Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern
2:40-2:50	Q&A Discussion

2:50-3:00

BREAK in SSPA 2142

EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY

3:00-3:40	Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus UCI Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society	"Memory Distortions and False Memories"
3:40-4:20	Professor Steven Clark Dept. of Psychology, UC Riverside	"Developing a Memory and Decision Model of Eyewitness Identification"
4:20--4:30	Q&A Discussion

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