[DFSci] NeFX 2009 Call for Participation; Travel Grants available

[Brian Levine]

The ACM Northeast Digital Forensics Exchange (NeFX)
http://www.nefx.org
July 20-21, 2009 @ John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY
New York, NY

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Grants to Attend Available


The ACM Northeast Digital Forensics Exchange (NeFX) is a workshop,  
sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, to foster  
collaboration on digital forensics and information assurance between  
federal and state law enforcement, academia and industry. The two-day  
Exchange will be held at John Jay College. NeFX Monday offers unique  
tutorials and NeFX Tuesday workshops on
- Internet Crimes Against Children
- Mobile Systems Forensics
- ID Theft and Privacy

Our goal is to bring together leading practitioners and academics in  
order to yield partnerships that advance digital forensics through  
mutual sharing of the problems of practice and research.

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Who should attend:
- Prosecutors and investigators who would like to share their  
experience and explore solutions to the technical problems with  
researchers. (Grants to Attend available.)
- Academics and researchers who would like enhanced contact with  
practitioners to inform research agendas.
- Industry practitioners and tool developers who wish to have stronger  
links to researchers and law enforcement.
- Graduate students interested in digital forensics and criminal and  
civil investigations.

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Grants to attend are available to law enforcement. Funding provided by  
grants from Stroz Friedberg, LLC and the National Science Foundation.  
Please see our web site for details.

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Speakers, Panelists, and Tutorial Instructors:

Robert Alexander, Chief, Computer Crime Unit, Queens County DA's Office
Richard Brittson, Senior Forensic Examiner and Computer Investigative  
Analyst, New York County DA's Office - Identity Theft Unit
Eoghan Casey, cmdLabs and Johns Hopkins University
Monique Ferraro, M.S., J.D., C.I.S.S.P, Attorney
Miroslav Goljan, Research Scientist, Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng.,  
Binghamton Univ.
Stephen Hirst, Operations Manager, Stroz Friedberg, Leeds, England
Trevor Hughes, CIPP, Executive Director of IAPP
Michael Kalmbach, Detective Captain, Massachusetts State Police
Brian Levine, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, UMass  
Amherst
Nasir Memon, Professor, Dept. of Computer & information Science,  
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Marc Rogers, CISSP, CCCI, Chair of Cyber Forensics Program, Purdue  
University
Elaine Pagliaro, J.D., former Director CT Forensics Science Lab
Katherine Seigfried-Spellar, Cyber Forensics Program, Purdue University
Clay Shields, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science,  
Georgetown University
Edward Stroz, Co-President, Stroz Friedberg LLC
Janis Wolak, J.D., M.A., Research Professor, Crimes against Children  
Research Center, Univ. of New Hampshire

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Tutorials:

1. Ramifications of the NAS Report for Digital Forensic Labs. (Monique  
Ferraro and Elaine Pagliaro)
2. An Overview of Network Forensics Investigation with a Focus on Peer- 
to-Peer Networks. (Brian Levine and Clay Shields)
3. An Introduction to Serving as a Forensic Consultant in Cases  
Involving Digital Evidence. (Robert Alexander and Richard Brittson)
4. Investigating Online Consumers of Child Pornography. (Marc Rogers  
and Katherine Spellar-Seigfried)

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Registration:
Full Registration   $320
Tutorials Only 	    $100

More information at http://www.nefx.org

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