Gordon Research Seminar on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research

Gordon Research Seminar on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage
    Research
Sunday River
Newry, ME
July 31 - August 5, 2016

Our full conference program for the 2016 Gordon Research Conference
on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research: Probing
Hierarchically Complex Historical Materials and Their Modes of
Characterization and Alteration has been published.  Please view it
at:

    <URL:https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=15101>

or see the abbreviated schedule below.

This meeting, among the most selective and prestigious conferences
in cultural heritage science, takes place July 31 - August 5, 2016
in Newry Maine, and is strictly limited to 155 attendees.  Register
now to be certain you can join us as a poster presenter or an
attendee to hear about groundbreaking research in the field and
forge new research collaborations.  This year's meeting will include
a Gordon Research Symposium for graduate students and postdocs, and
also a Samuel H. Kress-Funded Workshop on Technical Art History
curriculum development.  Please contact me <jmass<-at->udel<.>edu> or Rick
Johnson <johnson<-at->ece<.>cornell<.>edu> for more information on the Kress
Workshop, and we look forward to having you join us in Maine.  We
are particularly interested in having a strong showing of
conservators along with conservation scientists at this meeting to
foster productive discussion sessions, a highlight of the GRC
format.

Co-chairs Jennifer Mass and Tim Wess

Co-vice chairs Robert van Langh and Rick Johnson

Program
Sunday July 31, 2016

    7:40 - 9:30 pm          "Forensic Science and Cultural Heritage
                            Science: Cross-Disciplinary Problem
                            Solving"

                            Discussion Leader:

                                John Lombardi
                                City College of New York, USA

    7:40 - 8:20 pm          Maurice Aalders
                            University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                            "Bringing Forensic and Medical
                            Techniques to Cultural Heritage
                            Research"

    8:20 - 8:40 pm          Discussion

    8:40 - 9:10 pm          Greg Smith
                            Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
                            "Ancient Pigment Solves Modern Crime:
                            Micronized Egyptian Blue Pigment as a
                            Near-Infrared Luminescent Fingerprint
                            Dusting Powder"

    9:10 - 9:30 pm          Discussion

Monday

    9am - 12:30             Biofilms and Biodeteriorated Systems:
                            Characterization Challenges Across
                            Disciplines

                            Discussion Leader:

                                John Moreau
                                University of Melbourne, Australia

    9 - 9:40 am             Caroline Kyi
                            University of Melbourne, Australia
                            "Considerations in the Investigation and
                            Evaluation of the Direct Impact of
                            Conservation Measures, and Treatments,
                            on Biodeterioration"

    9:40 - 10am             Discussion

    10- 10:30 am            Coffee Break

    10:30 - 11:10 am        Benjamin Ortega
                            Autonomous University of Campeche,
                            Mexico
                            "Bioactive Nanomaterials to Control
                            Stone Microbial Colonization:
                            Effectiveness and Possible Environmental
                            Fate"

    11:10 - 11:30 am        Discussion

    11:30 am - 12:10        Francesca Cappitelli
                            University of Milan, Italy
                            "Importance of Interactions in the
                            Tripartite System Stone/Biofilm/Air"

    12:10 - 12:30 pm        Discussion

    12:30 pm                Lunch

    1:30 - 4pm              Free Time

    4- 6pm                  Poster Session

    6pm                     Dinner

    7:30 - 9:30 pm          The Fossil Record and Finds from
                            Anaerobic and Arid Environments: New
                            Preservation Problems and Analytical
                            Tools"

                                Discussion Leader:

                                    Nicholas Edwards
                                    University of Manchester, United
                                    Kingdom

    7:30 - 8:10 pm          Michael Toth
                            R.B. Toth Associates, USA
                            "Making the Mummies Talk? A Project to
                            Assess Nondestructive Imaging of Mummy
                            Mask Cartonnage"

    8:10 - 8:30 pm          Discussion

    8:30 - 9:10 pm          Uwe Bergmann
                            SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
                            USA
                            "Rapid-Scan X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging
                            in Cultural Heritage and Beyond"

    9:10 - 9:30 pm          Discussion

Tuesday

    9am - 12:30             "The Preservation Challenges of
                            Protein-Based Materials:
                            Characterization and Quantification of
                            Degradation"

                            Discussion Leader:

                                Michael Buckley
                                University of Manchester, United
                                Kingdom

    9am - 9:40 am           Loic Bertrand
                            Synchrotron Soleil, France
                            "Microscale Taphonomy Questioned by
                            Advanced Photon-Based Imaging"

    9:40 am - 10am
                            Discussion

    10:30 am - 11:10 am     Matthew Collins
                            University of York, United Kingdom
                            "Lessons from a Large Scale, Crowd
                            Sourced Analysis of Parchment
                            Manuscripts Using Peptide Mass
                            Spectrometry"

    11:10 am - 11:30 am     Discussion

    11:30 am - 12:10 pm     Colin Smith
                            La Trobe University, Australia
                            "Investigating Ancient Proteins Using
                            LC-IRMS"

    12:10 pm - 12:30 pm     Discussion

    4pm - 6pm               Poster Session

    7:30 pm - 9:30 pm       Technological Challenges of the
                            Inaccessible: On-Site Cultural Heritage
                            Investigations and Buried Stratigraphies

                            Discussion Leader
                                John Delaney
                                National Gallery of Art, USA

    7:30 pm - 8:10 pm       Koen Janssens
                            University of Antwerp, Belgium
                            "Upgrading MA-XRF Scanning with MA-XRD
                            Mapping - More Information on Past and
                            Future Appearing on the Horizon"

    8:10 pm - 8:30 pm       Discussion

    8:30 pm - 9:10 pm       Warren Warren
                            Duke University, USA
                            "Using Low Power Nonlinear Microscopy to
                            Image Cultural Heritage"

    9:10 pm - 9:30 pm       Discussion

Wednesday

    9am - 12:30 pm          "Failure Mechanisms in Cultural Heritage
                            Objects"

                            Discussion Leader:

                                Katrien Keune
                                University of Amsterdam, The
                                Netherlands

    9am - 9:40 am           Austin Nevin
                            Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie -
                            Consiglio Nazional delle Ricerche
                            IFN-CNR), Italy "Towards
                            Understanding Luminescence of
                            Semiconductor Pigments and Their
                            Degradation: Beyond Model Samples"

    9:40 am - 10am          Discussion

    10:30 am - 11:10 am     Shelley Svoboda
                            Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, USA
                            and

                            Kristin Wusthol
                            College of William and Mary, USA
                            "Investigating Fugitive Pigments: Impact
                            of Dye Structure and Mordant on
                            Photochemistry"

    11:10 am - 11:30 am     Discussion

    11:30 am - 12:10 pm     Nati Salvado
                            Polytechnic University of Catalonia,
                            Spain
                            "Identification and Distribution of
                            Soaps and Oxalates in Paint Layers Using
                            Synchrotron Radiation Techniques"

    12:10 pm - 12:30 pm     Discussion

    4pm - 6pm               Poster Session

    6pm                     Dinner

    7pm - 7:30 pm           Business Meeting

                            Elections of the Next Vice Chair

    7:30 pm - 9:30 pm       Cultural Heritage in Crisis - Scientific
                            and Conservation Interventions to
                            Preserve the Present for the Future

                            Discussion Leader:

                                Yvonne Shashoua
                                National Museum of Denmark, Denmark

    7:30 pm - 8:10 pm       Cory Rogge
                            Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
                            "A Simplicity Not So Simple - Causes of
                            Deterioration in Franz Kline's
                            Paintings"

    8:10 pm - 8:30 pm       Discussion

    8:30 pm - 9:10 pm       John Delaney
                            National Gallery of Art, USA
                            "Thoughts on the Use of Imaging
                            Spectroscopy to Help Understand Changes
                            in the Appearance of Paintings with
                            Time"

    9:10 pm - 9:30 pm       Discussion

Thursday

    9am - 12:30 pm          "Innovative Surface Sensitive Probes and
                            New Sampling Methods in Cultural
                            Heritage Research"

                            Discussion Leader:

                                Thomas Beebe
                                University of Delaware, USA

    9am - 9:40 am           David Mills
                            Queen Mary University of London, United
                            Kingdom) and
                            Graham Davis Queen Mary University of
                            London, United Kingdom

                            "Life Beyond Decay: Using Tomography to
                            Recover Images from Damaged Movie Film"

    9:40 am - 10am          Discussion

    10:30 am - 11:10 am     Claire Gervais
                            Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland
                            "'We See Only What We Know' - Towards a
                            Holistic 3D Imaging of Ancient
                            Materials"

    11:10 am - 11:30 am     Discussion

    11:30 am - 12:10 pm     Marc Walton
                            Northwestern University / Art Institute
                            of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies
                            in the Arts, USA
                            "Object Biography at the Atomic Scale: A
                            New Approach to Understanding the
                            Structure, Form, and Color of Roman
                            Opaque Red Glass with Atom Probe
                            Tomography"

    12:10 pm - 12:30 pm     Discussion

    4pm - 5:30 pm           Poster Session

    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm       "First Nations' Art and Artists'
                            Materials: Preserving Meaning,
                            Appearance, and Function"

                            Discussion Leader:

                                Nancy Odegaard
                                University of Arizona, USA

    5:30 pm - 6:10 pm       Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
                            Flinders University, Australia
                            "Ochre Journeys: Understanding Cultural
                            Meanings and Technologies of Indigenous
                            Ochre in Australia and Globally Through
                            Analytical Methods"

    6:10 pm - 6:30 pm       Discussion

    6:30 pm - 7:10 pm       Carole Dignard
                            Canadian Conservation Institute, Canada
                            "A Study of Birch Bark Properties: Light
                            Discoloration, Solvent Vapour
                            Discoloration and Reshaping, and Plastic
                            Memory"

    7:10 pm - 7:30 pm       Discussion

Jennifer Mass
Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC
Art Conservation Department
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware


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