Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Dating for Heritage and Forensic Sciences

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Description

An ICTP-IAEA in person workshop

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry radiocarbon dating is especially useful to determine the age of objects and their chronology over the past 55,000 years. This technique is routinely used for dating of both cultural and natural heritage materials and is successfully applied for forensic cases.

The workshop will provide an advanced training and information exchange platform. The workshop seeks to review the state-of-the-art in the area of analysis with the emphasis on the newest development and trends. Novel applications, guidelines, protocols to improve radiocarbon dating will be presented. Several case studies in the field of heritage and forensics sciences will be discussed.

The recently published IAEA e-learning on radiocarbon dating technique is available:

https://elearning.iaea.org/m2/course/view.php?id=1499

Call for Contributed Abstracts: It is compulsory to submit an abstract for poster presentation as part of your application. Your abstract should describe your current work on radiocarbon dating or application can benefit from radiocarbon dating.
A poster session will be organised to present and discuss the participants’ research results.

The workshop is open both for young and experienced scientists, archaeologists, curators, forensic experts/law-enforcement actors, and policy makers interested in this quickly evolving subject.

Topics:

State of the Art of accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating
Sample preparation and chemistry for radiocarbon dating
Analysis and interpretation of the radiocarbon data
Case studies on radiocarbon dating in heritage science: paintings, pigments, organic dyes, mortars, iron artifacts, rock art and natural landscape
Case studies on radiocarbon dating in forensic science for authentication, detecting illicit trade and police cases: art objects, documents, food, medicine, wildlife, soft tissue, forensic anthropology
Future trends, ethical considerations, scientific challenges and possible solutions

Lecturers:
L. CALCAGNILE, CEDAD, University of Salento, Italy
E. DELQUE-KOLIC, LMC14, University Paris-Saclay, France
M. FEDI, INFN, Italy
I. HAJDAS, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
M. HUELS, University of Kiel, Germany
F. MARZAIOLI, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
M. MOLNAR, ATOMKI-HAS, Hungary
G. QUARTA, CEDAD, University of Salento, Italy
A. QUILES, IFAO, Egypt
F. ZANINI, Elettra – Sincrotrone, Italy

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Female scientists are encouraged to apply.

Collaboration with the IAEA-ANSTO Collaborating Centre on “ New and Advanced Techniques and Applications of Nuclear Science and Technology Towards a Sustainable Environment” and IAEA-University of Paris-Saclay Collaborating Centre on “Atoms for Heritage” is acknowledged.

Material

Abstract template Booklet with posters Final list of participants Group photo Poster

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Dating for Heritage and Forensic Sciences | (smr 3839)

Go to day

Monday, 22 May 2023
- 08:30 - 10:00
  - 08:30 Registration and administrative formalities 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Registration desk (Lower Level 1) )
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REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Adriatico Guest House (Lower level). The Registration Desk will be open from 8.30 to 10.00.
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- 10:00 - 17:00
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 10:00 Welcome and opening of the Workshop 30'
    
    Speaker: Aliz SIMON (IAEA, Austria), Ralf KAISER (ICTP, Italy), Timothy JULL (Arizona University, USA)
  - 10:30 Introduction of the Participants 30'
  - 11:00 Overview of the IAEA activities in support of "Atoms for Heritage" 30'
    
    Speaker: Aliz SIMON (IAEA, Austria)
  - 11:30 ICTP: a knowledge hub for physicists and mathematicians 30'
    
    Speaker: Ralf KAISER (ICTP, Italy)
  - 12:00 State of the art of accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating technique 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Timothy JULL (Arizona University, USA)
  - 13:00 Lunch break 1h0'
  - 14:00 Introduction to Radiocarbon: An Overwiev about origin, distribution, sample preparation and conventions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Matthias HUELS (Leibniz-Laboratory, Germany)
  - 15:00 New persepctives of iron artifacts dating 20'
    
    Speaker: Mihaly MOLNAR (Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
  - 15:30 The potential of radiocarbon-based biogenic fraction analysis of fuel, plastic, food, drug and cosmetic products 20'
    
    Speaker: Tamas VARGA (Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
  - 16:00 Radiocarbon in the environment Radiocarbon distribution in atmosphere and biosphere; Reference 14C data for forensics 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Matthias HUELS (Leibniz-Laboratory, Germany)
- 17:00 - 19:00
  - 17:00 Welcome Reception 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
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All participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception.
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Tuesday, 23 May 2023
- 08:30 - 16:00
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 08:30 Radiocarbon in forensics: 1) Preventing illigal trade of endangered species 30'
    
    Speaker: Matthias HUELS (Leibniz-Laboratory, Germany)
  - 09:00 Radiocarbon in forensics: 2) Age estimation of documents 30'
    
    Speaker: Matthias HUELS (Leibniz-Laboratory, Germany)
  - 09:30 Radiocarbon dating of rock art with the examples of the Chauvet cave the Cosquer cave 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Emmanuelle DELQUE-KOLIC (LMC14, University Paris-Saclay, France)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 Case studies on radiocarbon dating in heritage science - Modelling of Egyptian chronology 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Anita QUILES (IFAO, Egypt)
  - 12:00 Radiocarbon for artworks: a tool to support authenticity issues and art-historical questions 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Mariaelena FEDI (INFN, Italy)
  - 13:00 Lunch break 1h0'
  - 14:00 Case studies on radiocarbon dating in heritage science - Chuchuwayha site (British Columbia) 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Anita QUILES (IFAO, Egypt)
  - 15:00 The contribution of 14C-AMS in the identification of missing persons in war crimes 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Gianluca QUARTA (CEDAD, Italy)
- 16:00 - 19:00
  - 16:00 Poster session 2h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Lower level Lobby )
  - 18:00 Get-together drink 1h0'
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
- 06:30 - 07:00 Site visit in Venice
  - 06:30 Coffee break 20' ( Adriatico Cafeteria )
  - 06:55 Bus transfer 5'
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pick up at Adriatico (Bus station 6, close to the sea)
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- 10:00 - 14:00 University of Venice, San Basilio Campus, Aula 2B
  - 10:00 Analytical validation of 14C AMS methodologies for Forensics studies: the case of paper and bone fractions 45'
    
    Speaker: Fabio MARZAIOLI (Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy)
  - 10:45 An integrated approach of AMS-IBA techniques for Cultural Heritage studies 45'
    
    Speaker: Lucio CALCAGNILE (CEDAD, Italy)
  - 11:30 Radiocarbon dating of Turin shroud 45'
    
    Speaker: Timothy JULL (Arizona University, USA)
  - 12:15 The issue of dating historical buildings: our approach to measure the C-14 content in mortars and other materials from buildings 45'
    
    Speaker: Mariaelena FEDI (INFN, Italy)
  - 13:00 Case studies on radiocarbon dating in heritage science (Angkor temple) 45'
    
    Speaker: Emmanuelle DELQUE-KOLIC (LMC14, University Paris-Saclay, France)
  - 13:45 Q&A 15'
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End of the session
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- 14:00 - 20:00 Free time in Venice
  - 19:55 Bus transfer 5'
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pick up from Venezia Tronchetto to Adriatico Guesthouse
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Thursday, 25 May 2023
- 08:30 - 13:45
  - 08:30 Group photo 1'
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Adriatico Terrace
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  - 08:30 Case studies on radiocarbon dating in heritage science, forensic science and in Police cases 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Irka HAJDAS (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  - 09:30 The use of AMS 14C dating to address authenticity issues: case studies report 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Gianluca QUARTA (CEDAD, Italy)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 CH applications on pigments and binding media 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Irka HAJDAS (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  - 12:00 Case studies on radiocarbon dating in forensic sciences 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Lucio CALCAGNILE (CEDAD, Italy)
  - 13:00 Lunch break 45'
- 13:45 - 17:30 Visit of Elettra Sincrotrone
  - 13:45 Bus transfer - pick up at ICTP 45'
  - 14:30 Welcome and Introduction of Elettra 30'
    
    Speaker: Giuliana AQUILANTI (Sincrotrone Elettra, Italy)
  - 15:00 Alternative synchrotron radiation methods for dating of heritage and forensic samples 30'
    
    Speaker: Franco ZANINI (Sincrotrone Elettra, Italy)
  - 15:30 Synchrotron infrared spectroscopies and chemometrics for forensic applications; Comprehensive analysis of ancient violin 30'
    
    Speaker: Franco ZANINI (Sincrotrone Elettra, Italy)
  - 16:00 Beamline visit 1h0'
  - 17:00 Bus transfer to city center 30'
- 19:00 - 21:00
  - 19:00 Workshop dinner 2h0'
Friday, 26 May 2023
- 08:30 - 13:00
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 08:30 Forensic applications in soft tissues health and biomedical application 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Irka HAJDAS (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  - 09:30 Trends, ethical considerations 30'
    
    Speaker: Irka HAJDAS (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  - 10:00 Open discussion: The future of AMS 30'
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Moderated by Timothy JULL and All 
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    Speaker: Irka HAJDAS (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  - 10:30 Coffee break 30'
  - 11:00 AMS Clinic Open discussion 1h0'
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Moderated by Timothy JULL and All 
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  - 12:00 Evaluation of the workshop, Closing remarks 1h0'
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End of the Workshop
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    Speaker: Aliz SIMON (IAEA, Austria) and Lena BASSEL (IAEA, Austria)