Conference Schedule

Friday, November 6, 2015
8:30am–4:30pm
Honigman Auditorium, 100 Hutchins Hall (map)

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and Introduction by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bridget Mary McCormack
9:10 – 10:00 Patrick Barnes, Professor of Pediatric Neuroradiology, Stanford University Medical Center
10:00 – 10:40 Richard Leo, Hamill Family Chair Professor of Law and Social Psychology, University of San Francisco
10:40 – 10:55 Break
10:55 – 11:45 Sam SommersAssociate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Diversity and Intergroup Relations Lab, Tufts University, and Keith MaddoxAssociate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Cognition Lab, Tufts University
11:45 – 12:15 Roundtable Q&A Moderated by Kimberly Thomas
12:15 – 12:30 Lunch served for registered conference attendees [Please note: Registrations made after November 1st will not be guaranteed to receive lunch.]
12:30 – 1:30 Keynote speaker: Peter Aspelin, Professor of Medical Radiology, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), “Can A Sign or Occult Finding Predict A Causal Relationship?: How to Reason about Possible Child Abuse
1:30 – 1:40 Break
1:40 – 2:30 Maria Cuellar, Ph.D. Student in Statistics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, and Steve Fienberg, Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
2:30 – 3:00 Kate Judson, Innocence Network Fellow at University of Wisconsin Law
3:00 – 3:40 Leigh Bishop, Assistant Prosecutor and Chief of the Child Fatality Unit at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office in New York
3:40 – 3:55 Break
3:55 – 4:30 Discussion Roundtable Moderated by Nicole Appleberry