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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Streaming Audio of E-Symposium Presentations To Be Available April 15

Streaming audio of the oral presentations at the e-symposium on human identification will be available within ca. 24 hours.

I caught fragments of earlier discussions; they struck me as very worthwhile. I plan to listen to them at my leisure this weekend. Topics included fingerprint evidence (five presentations or sessions), DNA evidence (multiple presentations), and other matters such as identification with teeth, bones, etc.

The link to the (free) symposium is in my prior post.

The speakers are well-credentialed and well-spoken.

Ah, here is the link to the symposium on human identification: e-symposium

Posted by Peter Tillers at 3:34 PM
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Human Identification eSymposium

This excellent and free e-symposium is now in progress; it began at 5:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (U.S.).

If you are not able to participate viva voce (as I, alas, cannot), you can apparently access archives of the presentations.

  • But after a presentation is finished, one can only access the powerpoint file associated with the presentation, it seems, and not video or audio files; and you will not be able to pose questions or take part in chat room discussions.

    • Posted by Peter Tillers at 6:10 AM
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    Tuesday, April 12, 2005
    Is Quantum Computing on the Horizon? Discussion of a Macroscopic Effect of Quantum Processes

    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

    PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
    2004-2005

    PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

    Quantum tunneling of the magnetization in molecular nanomagnets

    A lecture by Myriam Sarachik

    C.C.N.Y. – C.U.N.Y

    Molecular nanomagnets, sometimes referred to as single molecule magnets, have attracted a great deal of recent attention for interesting behavior that is borderline between the classical and quantum mechanical regimes, and because of their potential usefulness for high-density data storage and quantum computation. Quantum mechanical processes are observed in these materials on a macroscopic scale in the form of steps in the magnetization curves. Typical behavior of the class will be examined by considering Mn12-acetate, a particularly simple prototype.

    Wednesday, April 13

    12:15 PM - Furst 201


    Posted by Peter Tillers at 11:17 AM
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    Professor Peter Tillers
    "I have practiced a little bit of law -- I worked as a litigator, once in California and once in Texas -- but for most of my professional life I have studied and taught law.

    In the early part of my academic career I dabbled in philosophy, particularly the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. But as I matured, I came to my senses. This explains why during the last 15 years I have devoted much more attention to evidence, inference, and proof in litigation than to German Idealism and similar matters. However, I did not succeed in completely obliterating the influence of philosophy and epistemology on my thinking. Thus, in my effort to understand and explain the process of proof in litigation, I have devoted a great deal of attention to matters such as probability theory and theories of evidence, inference, induction, and proof.

    Peter Tillers is Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University. He revised volumes 1 &1A of Wigmore on Evidence (1983) and is the author of Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence (1988; with E. Green).