Strengthening Forensic Science Through Connections with the Analytical Sciences

该讲习班由化学司主办，将讨论2009年国家研究理事会题为“加强美国的法医学”的报告中提出的与基础科学和教育有关的问题。“具体来说，研讨会将侧重于与设计，方法，仪器，数据处理和数据解释，化学测量，以及教育和研究基础设施，准备人们在这奋进的努力是有效的方面。将提出的一个基本问题是，分析测量，特别是应用于社会规定的测量任务，包括法医学的化学测量，是否未能跟上需求。需要解决的问题包括：（一）目前的分析化学方法本身是否太慢;（二）制定和颁布的方法是否过于严格;（三）记录的数据是否因不加解释而被浪费;（四）坚固的自动化方法是否可以取代目前的方法而不牺牲分析性能;以及（v）适当的数据处理和先进的计算方法可以最小化数据采集时间并降低分析成本。 这些重要的一般性问题是现代技术结构的基础，有时也是科学持续进步的基础。这些问题将在这次研讨会上审查，特别注意从微量化学分析中提取的例子，在法医学中的代表。讲习班还将寻求帮助促进新兴的现场高密度测量分析科学，特别是那些对复杂样品进行快速直接测量的分析科学。拟议的讲习班将是及时的，并有足够的重点，在法医学领域的影响最密切相关的分析化学-仪器分析和化学计量学。预计法医学和分析科学之间的关系得到加强将是互惠互利的-法医实践和学术研究之间更密切的联系将加强这两个领域。学生对法医学的热情可以提供一个工具，以增加对科学的热情和兴趣作为一个整体。该研讨会将寻求为法医学教育与现代快速分析化学相结合的计划提出具体建议。衡量成果的方法将从研讨会与会者那里获得，并列入研讨会最重要的成果-正式报告。

This workshop, sponsored by the Chemistry Division, will address questions related to basic science and education posed in a 2009 National Research Council report entitled "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States." Specifically, the workshop will focus on aspects relating to the design, methodology, instrumentation, data processing, and data interpretation, for chemical measurements, and to the educational and research infrastructure that prepares people to be effective in this endeavor. A fundamental question that will be raised is whether analytical measurements, especially chemical measurements as applied to societally mandated measurement tasks including forensic science, have failed to keep up with demand. Questions to be addressed include whether (i) current analytical chemistry methods are intrinsically too slow; (ii) developed and promulgated methods are inappropriately rigid; (iii) the data being recorded is wasted by going un-interpreted; (iv) rugged and automated methodologies can replace current methods without sacrificing analytical performance; and (v) appropriate data handling and advanced computational methods can minimize data acquisition time and decrease analysis costs. These important general issues are basic to the fabric of modern technology and sometimes underpinning continued scientific progress. These questions will be examined at this workshop with particular attention to examples taken from trace chemical analysis as represented in forensic science. The workshop will also seek to help catalyze the emerging analytical science of in-situ, high density measurements, especially those which provide rapid, direct measurement on complex samples.In addressing both the practice of, and education in, forensic science, the proposed workshop will be both timely and sufficiently focused to have impact in those areas of forensic science most closely allied to analytical chemistry - instrumental analysis and chemometrics. It is anticipated that a strengthened relationship between forensic and analytical science should be mutually rewarding - closer ties between forensic practice and academic research will strengthen both fields. The enthusiasm of students for forensic science can provide a vehicle to increasing enthusiasm for and interest in science as a whole. The workshop will seek to develop specific suggestions for programs that align education in forensics with modern rapid analytical chemistry. Methods for measuring outcomes will be elicited from workshop attendees and included in the formal workshop report, its most significant product.