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• New techniques for the non-invasive investigation of the surface and subsurface structure of heritage objects 25-26 June 2013

Monday, 24 June 2013  Place: Collegium Maximum -  address: Pl. Papackiego 1 map
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday, 25 June 2013  Place: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, address: Chopina Street 12/18 map
9:30 Opening
Session Chair: Bruno Brunetti
10:00 Haida Liang (Nottingham Trent University, UK) A systematic non-invasive optical investigation of wall paintings at a UNESCO world heritage site
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Claudia Daffara (University of Verona, Italy) Thermal quasi reflectography: current research and potential applications
12:00 Tyler Meldrum (Aachen University, Germany) Of MOUSE and Men: Single-sided NMR in Cultural Heritage PDF of the presentation
12:45 Lunch (provided on-site)
Session Chair: Heitz-Eberhard Mahnke
14:15 Marika Spring (National Gallery, London, UK) A CHARISMA round robin; comparison of non-invasive analyses and documentation methods for integration of results from multiple techniques on a single painting
15:00 Paraskevi Pouli (FORTH, Grece) Laser tools in Cultural Heritage Science and Conservation; non-invasive analysis and management of cleaning interventions
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Costanza Miliani (Centro SMAArt of the University of Perugia and CNR-ISTM, Italy) Mid-infrared hyperspectral imaging of painting materials
17:00 Suzan de Groot (RCE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) On site research on 'The Beanery' by Edward Kienholz with portable Fibre Optics Raman Spectroscopy
17:30 End of the session


Wednesday, 26 June 2013  Place: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, address: Chopina Street 12/18 map
Session Chair: Suzan de Groot
9:30 Gillian Walker (University of Reading, UK) Applications of Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy in Cultural Heritage
10:15 Gaël Latour (Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM, Palaiseau, France) Multiphoton microscopy: an efficient and promising tool for in situ study of historical artifacts PDF of the presentation
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Short poster talks -
•  Leszek Krzemien (Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland) Time-averaged digital speckle pattern interferometry for investigation of art objects surfaces PDF of the presentation
•  Tomasz Kozielec (N. Copernicus University, Torun, Poland) Analysis of Ancient Paper Structure in Transmitted Light by Application of Different Microscopic Techniques. Examples from Collection of the Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Science.
•  Ewelina Miśta (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland) Preliminary physicochemical studies in shield handle originating from the Przeworsk culture cemetery located in Czersk
12:30 Lunch (provided on-site)
Session Chair: Costanza Miliani
14:00 Georgios Karagiannis (ORMYLIA Art Diagnosis Centre, Grece) Fusion of tomographic documentation of art-objects based on electromagnetic radiation in the near and mid infrared area of the spectrum and ultrasonic microscopy. Application to Byzantine icons from Cyprus.
14:30 Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Accelerators and X-rays in cultural heritage studies PDF of the presentation
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Elizabeth Bemand (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Optical coherence tomography for vulnerability assessment of sandstone in-situ
16:25 Koen Janssens (Antwerp University, Belgium) Macroscopic X-ray fluorescence analysis, a method for non-invasive imaging of painted works of art. Comparison with other methods and some case studies
17:10 Final remarks
17:20 End of the session



Other posters

•  The technology of red lake pigments and technique of application in Anton Möller's and Hermann Han's paintings - non-invasive optical microscopy, SEM-EDX and µ-XRD analysis on samples
Justyna Olszewska-Świetlik, Bożena Szmelter-Fausek (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland)
•  CHARISMA Transnational Access: MOLAB
•  CHARISMA Transnational Access: FIXLAB
•  CHARISMA Transnational Access: ARCHLAB
•  CHARISMA New portable instrumentation and innovative metodologies for in-situ diagnostic and conservation