Wykład HS Academy – „Sirius – a powerful tool to study ancient materials with synchrotron light”

Kolejny publiczny wykład (w języku angielskim) organizowany przez europejski projekt IPERION HS tym razem poświęcony będzie wykorzystaniu promieniowania synchrotronowego w badaniach obiektów dziedzictwa materialnego.

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You are invited to join the 6th HS Academy Lecture of the series „Current Topics in Heritage Science” – „Sirius – a powerful tool to study ancient materials with synchrotron light” that will be presented by Dr. Verônica C. Teixeira on Thursday, February 16th, 2023, at 3.00 PM (CET).

She will present an overview about Sirius, its construction, the challenges around this project, and the potentialities of using Sirius light in several areas, with the emphasis on studies of Cultural Heritage.

The lecture series “Current Topics in Heritage Science” of the IPERION HS Academy aims at providing online training on fundamental aspects of heritage science, such as techniques and methodologies, as well as on specific heritage typologies and other topics of interest to the field. The lectures are targeted at emerging professionals, such as students and young researchers, but also advanced conservators, curators, restorers, and other cultural heritage stakeholders. The lectures are organized by a team of emerging professionals and are held online through Zoom webinar every third Thursday of the month, starting from September 2022. The attendance is free and the lectures are typically 30 min long, followed by Q&A.

Topic: „Sirius – a powerful tool to study ancient materials with synchrotron light”

Abstract:

Sirius is a 4th generation synchrotron light source and one of the pioneers in this level around the world. Its high brightness and coherent beam make the Sirius light a unique and powerful tool to probe several aspects of matter, in a huge X-ray microscope. Many contrasts based on absorption and scattering can be achieved at the beamlines of Sirius achieving nanometric resolution and allowing unprecedented studies in many areas of knowledge. In this lecture, I will present an overview about Sirius, its construction, the challenges around this project, and the potentialities of using Sirius light in several areas, empathizing studies of the Cultural Heritage.

Key topics we’ll cover

  • Advances on synchrotron sources and related techniques applied to the study of Cultural Heritage;
  • Sirius as a new platform for studying ancient materials;
  • X-ray fluorescence as a non-destructive technique applied to the study of Cultural Heritage

Speaker

Verônica C. Teixeira, beamline scientist of the Coherent X-ray Nanoprobe beamline (CARNAUBA) from the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory: Sirius; which is part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (Brazil).

She got titles of Bachelor in Physics and Medical Physics, Master and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in the Federal University of Sergipe-Brazil, and was visiting researcher in the Canadian Light Source (Canada).

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Wykład HS Academy – „Timing the spread of creative innovations by Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using the radiocarbon dating method”

Kolejny publiczny wykład (w języku angielskim) organizowany przez europejski projekt IPERION HS. Tym razem poświęcony będzie radiodatowaniu w zastosowaniu do badań początków cywilizacji.

Oto pełna informacja o wykładzie:

You are invited to join 5th HS Academy Lecture of the series „Current Topics in Heritage Science”: Timing the spread of creative innovations by Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using the radiocarbon dating method that will be delivered by Prof. Sahra Talamo on Thursday, January 19th, at 3 pm PM CET.

The lecture series “Current Topics in Heritage Science” of the IPERION HS Academy aims at providing online training on fundamental aspects of heritage science, such as techniques and methodologies, as well as on specific heritage typologies and other topics of interest to the field. The lectures are targeted at emerging professionals, such as students and young researchers, but also advanced conservators, curators, restorers, and other cultural heritage stakeholders. The lectures are organized by a team of emerging professionals and are held online through Zoom webinar every third Thursday of the month, starting from September 2022. The attendance is free and the lectures are typically 30 min long, followed by Q&A.

Topic: Timing the spread of creative innovations by Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using the radiocarbon dating method

It may be a cliché to say that Art is a form of symbolic behaviour and modern cognition as old as humankind itself. However, in Europe, the so far evidence showed that artistic expression, like any kind of personal ornaments, is associated with the emergence of cultural innovations introduced by Homo sapiens in the Initial Upper Palaeolithic, as demonstrated by the earliest unsophisticated manipulation of animal teeth in Bulgaria, around 46,000 years BP. Similar behaviour is documented in Southwestern France within the Neanderthal groups.
On the other hand, the elaborate and highly standardized manufacturing processes are recognized in the Early Aurignacian culture, done by Homo sapiens, prior to 40,000 years BP. The cultural innovation and the production of highly symbolic values from complex technological processes, like figurines or punctate decoration objects, started to be recognised across Europe.
However, the question around the beginning of the artistic explosion and the timing of these behavioural innovations is still challenging, especially if precious and unique objects will be damaged.
In this lecture, I will talk about how we can overcome the fire of destroying precious objects and directly date them using the updated radiocarbon pretreatment, the latest AMS instrumental advances, and the new IntCal20 calibration curve. Only with these new developments we can increase precision in establishing the true age of the item itself and fill the gap in the most intriguing puzzle about symbolic behaviour and modern cognition in Human Evolution.

Key topics we’ll cover

  • jewellery in Palaeolithic time;
  • radiocarbon;
  • the emergence of cultural innovations introduced by Homo sapiens;
  • symbolic behaviour in Neanderthals group

Speaker:

Sahra Talamo is a Full Professor in Chemistry, with special interest in studying human evolutionary events in combination with radiocarbon dating. During her period at the MPI-EVA, she has developed outstanding expertise in human evolution research, in particular regarding high-resolution chronologies in the study of human evolution and in geosciences in glacial times, with strong competence in interdisciplinary collaboration. In 2018 she won an ERC starting grant (n. 803147 – RESOLUTION), which started on June 1, 2019. In the RESOLUTION project, she will develop high-resolution radiocarbon calibration data sets, using fossil trees to gain resolution, precision, and confidence intervals to resolve key periods in European prehistory. The results of this project are of pivotal importance to precisely establish the time of the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe, the way of their diffusion, and their interactions with Neanderthals in terms of co-existence, co-habitation, and competition.

Since 2020 Prof. Talamo is the director of the radiocarbon laboratory BRAVHO (Bologna Radiocarbon laboratory devoted to Human Evolution).

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Rezultaty siódmego naboru wniosków MOLAB/FIXLAB PL

Siódmy nabór projektów umożliwiających bezpłatny dostęp do aparatury badawczej Konsorcjum obejmuje ofertę technik badawczych wymienionych w zakładce Oferta. Znaleźć tam można również warunki udziału. Termin składania projektów upłynął 15 października 2022. Rada Konsorcjum, na swoim posiedzeniu w dniu 21.11.2022 zatwierdziła do realizacji 11 projektów.

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Wykład HS Academy – „Past, present and future of citizen heritage science”

Kolejny publiczny wykład (w języku angielskim) organizowany przez europejski projekt IPERION HS poświęcony będzie „citizen science” tj. roli i miejscu badań prowadzonych przez pasjonatów – osoby nie związane zawodowo z badaniami dziedzictwa kulturowego. Jest to ostani wykład w 2022 roku, cykl bedzie kontynuowany w roku przyszłym.

Oto pełna informacja o wykładzie:

You are invited to join „Current Topics in Heritage Science” Lecture 04/2022:   Past, present and future of citizen heritage science that will be delivered by Dr. Josep Grau-Bove on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, at 3.00 PM CET.

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XXII Konferencja naukowa Analiza Chemiczna w Ochronie Zabytków – Program

Konferencja w tym roku odbędzie sie w trybie stacjonarnym, jak zwykle w Centrum Nauk Biologiczno-Chemicznych UW, Wydział Chemii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, ul. Żwirki Wigury 101, Warszawa, w dnaich 1 i 2 grudnia 2022.

Nadal można zgłosić udział w konferencji, niestety już bez mozliwości prezentacji referatu/posteru.

Program konferencji w pliku PDF

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Wykład HS Academy – Chromatographic analyses of molluskan purple pigments

Kolejny publiczny wykład (w języku angielskim) organizowany przez europejski projekt IPERION HS poświęcony będzie wykorzystaniu techniki chromatografii cieczowej (HPLC) w badaniach historycznych pigmentów purpurowych pozyskiwanych z mięczaków.

Oto pełna informacja o wykładzie:

You are invited to join „Current Topics in Heritage Science” Lecture 03/2022:  Chromatographic analyses of molluskan purple pigments that will be delivered by Prof. Zvi Koren on Thursday, November 17th, 2022, at 3.00 PM CET.

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7my warsztat informacyjny oferty MOLAB/FIXLAB PL

Również w tym roku nasze Konsorcjum oferuje dostęp do bezpłatnych badań fizyko-chemicznych Waszych obiektów. Szczegółowe informację o ofercie i regulaminie naboru znajdują się na stronie Nasza oferta, natomiast o samym naborze w Aktualnościach.

Pragniemy powrócić w tym roku do formuły osobistego udziału w Warsztatach. Tym razem zapraszamy Państwa do Wrocławia, na Wydział Chemii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, w środę 21 września.

Niemniej, zdając sobie sprawę z możliwych problemów z udziałem osobistym, warsztaty będą również transmitowane do Internetu.

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Osoby pragnące uczestniczyć w naszych warsztatach, proszone są o nadsyłanie zgłoszeń na adres mkow@umk.pl ze wskazaniem, czy zamierzają uczestniczyć osobiście, czy w trybie internetowym.

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