Information on courses, workshops and other events with topics typically related to the book "Relationship Inference with Familias and R" by Egeland, Kling, and Mostad, available from Elsevier, appear below. Please go to http://familias.no for free download of the program and documentation. For relevant information in Spanish, check this blog.
Activity 2019:
- Taller de Parentesco e Identificación (Familial Testing and Identification). Organiser Olga Barragán, International Committee of the Red Cross - Workshop. Thore Egeland and Lourdes Prieto, March 11-15, CD Mexico.
Activity 2018:
- How Genealogy lost its innocence. Thore Egeland, talk Norwegian Statistical Association, Oslo, Nov 15, 2018.
- Disaster Victim Identification – applications and statistics, with Thomas Parsons, Zlatan Bajunovic, Thore Egeland and Nádia Pinto (full day) Porto, Portugal,October 25-26, 2018.
- FamLink and FamLinkX course, 3rd to 5th October 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Daniel Kling.
- ISFG summer School 2018 Catanzaro, Calabria (Italia), September 3-4 2018: ["Paternity and kinship testing including X-chromosomal markers".] Teachers Thore Egeland and Daniel Kling.
- NORBIS course Jan 8-12 2018 in Oslo: Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland.
Activity 2017:
- Workshop: Statistical Methods and Software for Forensic Genetics. Date and venue: Nov 13-15, Monterrey, México. Announcement in Spanish. Teacher: Thore Egeland.
- Video recorded talk by Thore Egeland: Relationship Inference with Familias and R. Oct 1 ISHI workshop , Seattle, WA, US. See also HITA.
- Workshop: Kinship analysis. Date and venue: Aug 29, ISFG 2017, Seoul, South Korea. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Klaas Slooten.
- Workshop: Familial Testing and Identification. Date and venue: March 15-17 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus. Teachers: Thore Egeland, Yarimar Ruiz, Lourdes Prieto. Course organiser: Yarimar Ruiz
Activity 2016:
- X-chromosomal markers and FamLinkX, Nov 23-24 2016, Buenos Aires, Teachers: Thore Egeland and Leonor Gusmão. Course Organiser: Andrea Colussi SAGF.
- Program: Statistical methods in genetics using R, Nov 16-19 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Please contact course organiser Leonor Gusmão (email lgusmao at ipatimup.pt) for further information.
- EUROFORGEN-NoE Webinar Nov 9, 2016. Topic: Relationship Inference with Familias. The audio quality was poor in the webinar, sorry, here is a remake, a video version (same video, lower quality 30.3 MB ) recorded after the webinar.
- Workshop on evaluation of DNA evidence, EUROFORGEN-NoE course. Ljubljana, Oct 3-6 2016. Please contact Katja Drobnič, email katja.drobnic at policija.si, for further information.
- Advanced Relationship Inference Workshop Chair: Daniel Kling (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Forensic Services). In connection with ISHI, International Symposium of Human Identification, Minn, USA, Sep 26-29, 2016.
- Euroforgen workshop program: Familial Testing and Identification. Rome Sep 22-23, 2016. EUROFORGEN-NoE course.
- Here's the program and material for the workshop Familial testing, X-files, FamLinkX. Leonor Gusmão, Nádia Pinto and Thore Egeland. Sep 6, 2016, XXI Jornadas del GHEP-ISFG, Bayahíbe (República Dominicana).
- Statistical Methods in Forensic Genetics. Bologna, Italy, June 6-7, 2016. EUROFORGEN-NoE course.
- Relationship inference with Familias and FamLink. Teacher: Daniel Kling (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Forensic Services). In connection with CSFS Conference 2016, May 19, Montreal, Canada.
- Familial testing: Autosomal and X chromosomal markers. Teachers: Thore Egeland, Leonor Gusmão and Nádia Pinto. Organisers: Leonor Gusmão and Elizeu F. Carvalho. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, March 28 - April 1, 2016.
- Statistical methods in forensic genetics. Athens Feb 11-12,
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