Program of the 2010 Shoeprint and Toolmarks Forensics seminar by day

Program

a.m. Registration
10.00 u. IAI Footwear certification : written test
12.00-13.30 Lunch
14.00 u. Welcome - Jan De Kinder, ENFSI board chairman
14.30 u. introduction - Dave Baldwin, ENFSI EWGM Chairman & Gerrit Volckeryck, organising committee
15.00 u. A judges view on forensic evidence - Jacques Mahieu (president of the criminal court, Antwerp, Belgium)
15.30 u. coffee break
16.00 u. The possibilities of DNA analysis after blood enhancement techniques - Robert Vankan (Belgian Federal Police, Forensic Science Directorate, R&D) and Olivier Froment (Bio.be)
16.30 u. Sponsor presentation Foster & Freeman (U.K.)
16.40 u. Sponsor presentation Creaform 3D (France)
16.50 u. Sponsor presentation Laboratory Imaging (Czech Republic)
19.00 u. dinner

Breakfast
09.00 u. New Release Agent: PTFE-spray (Teflon) for casting impressions in dry sand/dust - Per Krat (National Center of Forensic Services, Shoeprint &Toolmark Section, Denmark)
09.30 u. Computer aided courtroom presentation of shoeprint comparison - YaronShor (DIFS, Israël Police)
10.00 u. coffee break
10.30 u. Footwear intelligence by non-forensically trained policemen - Roger Leys and Ludo Van Den Eynde (local police RegioTurnhout, Belgium)
11.00 u. Detection of latent blood : fLUM, pairing of luminol and fluoresceine - Daniël Gossaert (Federal Police Laboratory Kortrijk, Belgium)
11.30 u. SDB, a new marks database - Peter Kerkhof & Rudi Heirman(Federal Police Laboratory Antwerp, Belgium)
13.30-17.00 u. workshops, demonstrations and posters

Practical demonstrations of SDB, a new marks database - Rudi Heirweg(Federal Police Laboratory Antwerp, Belgium) with Wouter Gielen and Michael Gheeraert (Belgian Federal Police, Forensic Science Directorate, UCE)
Casting impressions in dry sand - Per Krat (National Center of Forensic Services, Shoeprint &Toolmark Section, Denmark)
Marks photography : about bits and bites - Peter Kerkhof (Federal Police Laboratory Antwerp, Belgium)
Trasoscan, 1000 ppi marks photography - Laboratory imaging (Czech Republic)
High resolution 3D scanning of tool marks - Laboratory imaging (Czech Republic)
Foster&Freeman (U.K.)
Portable 3D-scanning in the field - Johan Baecke (Creaform 3D, France)
The importance of footwear expertise in interdisciplinary opinion in Poland - Andrzej Chochót and MaciejSwietek (Institute of forensic research, Krakow, Poland)

19.00 u. dinner
10.30 u. Footwear intelligence by non-forensically trained policemen - Roger Leys and Ludo Van Den Eynde (local police RegioTurnhout, Belgium)

Breakfast
09.00 u. A case of marks intelligence : Database results - Gerrit Volckeryck (Belgian Federal Police, Forensic Science Directorate, UCE)
09.30 u. Computer system for aiding expert evaluation of the degree of certainty and error rate in physical match and 2D shoeprints - Yaron Shor (DIFS, Israël Police)
10.00 u. Coffee break
10.30 u. The Identifying characteristics of new marking stamps - Bert Weimar (BKA, Wiesbaden, Germany) and Matthias Weber (LKA Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
11.00 u. Shoeprint classification using intelligent pattern encoding and matching - Julien Pasquier (Institut de police scientifique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
The results of the ENFSI EMWG shoeprint test 2 - Lennart Jonasson (SKL, Linskoping, Sweden)
12.00-13.30 u. lunch
14.00 u. Tips and tricks from Sweden - Kjell Carlsson (Carlsson Innovation, Sweden)</li>
14.30 u. The Relief project - Dagmar Novakova, Pavel Havelka and Pavel Rak (Police of the Czech Republic, Institute of Criminalistics)
15.00 u. DNA and ear marks - Yannick Schampaert (student Hogeschool Amsterdam, Forensic science)
15.30 u. coffee break
17.00 u. Departure busses to the Monastery of Stavelot
18.00 u. Visit Museum “Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps” + Gala dinner (Monastery Stavelot)

Breakfast
09.00 u. Best Practice Manual
09.30 u. Business meeting
10.00 u. Coffee break
10.30 u. Fracture matching vs. DNA; numerical or statistical matching ? - Patrick De Smet (Nationaal Instituut voor Criminalistiek en Criminologie, Brussels)
11.00 u. On-screen comparisons - Gerrit Volckeryck (Belgian Federal Police, Forensic Science Directorate, UCE)
11.30 u. Farewell – Valère De Cloet (Belgian Federal Police, Forensic Science Director)
12.00-13.30 u. Lunch
14.00 u. Departure to Airport and railway station