8:00 - 8:10 AM ET Introduction Shyam Sunder

8:10 - 8:20 AM ET Forensics Overview Robert Ramotowski 

8:20 - 9:30 AM ET

8:20 - 8:30 AM ET Statistics Overview Will Guthrie

8:30 - 8:50 AM ET

Statistical Models for Similarity Score Comparisons in Firearm 

Evidence Identifications Nien-Fan Zhang

8:50 - 9:10 AM ET The NIST Footwear Impression Comparison System Steven Lund

9:10 - 9:30 AM ET

A New Statistical Procedure to Assess Calibration Accuracy of 

Likelihood Ratio Systems Hari Iyer

9:30 - 9:45 AM ET

9:45 - 10:00 AM ET

10:00 -11:10 AM ET

10:00 - 10:15 AM ET CSAFE Research Update Alicia Carriquiry

10:15 - 10:30 AM ET CSAFE Footwear Impression Analysis Charless Fowlkes

10:30 - 10:45 AM ET CSAFE Firearms and Toolmarks Heike Hofmann

10:45 - 11:00 AM ET CSAFE Implementation and Practice Brandon Garrett

11:00 - 11:10 AM ET Closing Alicia Carriquiry

11:10 - 11:25 AM ET

11:25 AM - 12:30 PM ET

12:30 – 2:15 PM ET

12:30-1:20 PM ET Research Programs and Standards Production Peter Vallone

1:20-2:15 PM ET Next Generation Sequencing for Forensic Genetics Katherine Gettings

2:15 – 2:30 PM ET

2:30 – 2:45 PM ET

2:45 – 4:30 PM ET

2:45 – 3:05 PM ET Firearms and Toolmarks Overview Johannes Soons

3:05 – 3:30 PM ET A Metrology Foundation for Firearm and Toolmark Examination Michael Stocker

3:30 – 3:55 PM ET Reference Population Database of Firearm Toolmarks (RPDFT) Alan Zheng

3:55 – 4:30 PM ET 

Digital Preservation of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination 

Ballistic Artifacts 

Robert Thompson and 

T. Brian Renegar

4:30 – 4:45 PM ET

4:45 – 5:00 PM ET Day 1 Wrap-Up TBD

Day 1: November 05, 2020

C-Safe Overview

Session Chair Moderator: Alicia Carriquiry

Firearms Q&A

Forensics Q&A

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Firearms and Associated Toolmarks 

Session Chair Moderator: Johannes Soons; Backup: Robert Thompson

Statistics 

Session Chair Moderator: Will Guthrie; Backup: Adam Pintar

Statistics Q&A

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C-Safe Q&A

LUNCH BREAK

Forensic Genetics

Session Chair Moderator: Peter Vallone
8:00 - 8:15 AM ET Welcome & Recap of Previous Day Robert Ramotowski

8:15 – 10:00 AM ET

8:15 - 8:30 AM ET Overview of the NIST Digital Evidence Program Barbara Guttman

8:30 - 8:50 AM ET How Do I Make the NSRL Hashes fit My Needs? Doug White

8:50 - 9:10 AM ET CFTT & String Searching Jim Lyle

9:10 - 9:30 AM ET What’s New About CFTT & Mobile? SQLite, SQLite Recovery and a new Federated 

Testing Tool Jenise Reyes Rodriguez

9:30 - 9:50 AM ET A new CFReDS: Sharing DE Datasets Rick Ayers and Mehdi 

Shahid

9:50 - 10:00 AM ET NIST Black Box Study of DE Tools – What have we learned so far? Barbara Guttman

10:00 - 10:15 AM ET

10:15 - 10:30 AM ET

10:30 AM- 12:15 PM ET

10:30 - 10:45 AM ET Development of a more comprehensive and extensible hair peptide spectral library Zheng "Jane" Zhang and 

Meghan Burke

10:45 - 11:00 AM ET Advances in Dynamic Vapor Sampling Towards Reliable Field Deployment Megan Harries

11:00 - 11:15 AM ET

Bulk and Micro-Scale Trace Element Analysis of Glass SRMs Using Modern Nuclear 

Analytical Methods and LA-ICP-MS Nick Sharp

11:15 - 11:30 AM ET

An Interlaboratory Study Evaluating the Interpretation of Forensic Glass Evidence 

Using Refractive Index Measurements and Elemental Composition Ruthie Corzo 

11:30 - 11:45 AM ET A Standard Methodology for the Analysis of Paint by FTIR Stephanie Watson 

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM ET

Hybrid Thermal Desorption -Ambient MS developments for the trace detection of 

explosives Thomas Forbes 

12:00 - 12:15 PM ET

An objective, quantitative, statistically defensible scheme based on fitted intensity 

ratios for GSR analysis. Nicholas Ritchie 

12:15 - 12:30 PM ET

12:30 - 1:30 PM ET

1:30 - 3:15 PM ET

1:30 - 1:50 PM ET Using Visualization Tools to Understand Drug Evidence Handling Processes Matthew Staymates

1:50 - 2:15 PM ET Development of Novel Workflows for Drug Chemistry Edward Sisco

2:15 - 2:35 PM ET Software Tools for DART-MS and GC-MS Data Arun Moorthy

2:35 - 2:55 PM ET Benchtop NMR for Forensic Drug Analysis Aaron Urbas

2:55 - 3:15 PM ET An Overview of the Hemp Measurement Service Program

Melissa Phillips & Brent 

Wilson

3:15 - 3:30 PM ET

3:30 - 4:00 PM ET Biometrics Human Examiner Overview Jonathon Phillips 

4:00 - 4:15 PM ET Final Wrap-Up TBD

Day 2: November 06, 2020

LUNCH BREAK

Drugs & Toxins

Session Chair Moderator: Ed Sisco; Backup: Marcela Najarro

Live Q&A Drugs & Toxins

Digital and Identification Evidence 

Session Chair Moderator: Barbara Guttman

Trace

Session Chair Moderator: Marcela Najarro

Live Q&A Digital and Identification Evidence 

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Live Q&A Trace