SESAME Cultural Heritage Day

Name: SESAME Cultural Heritage Day
Start: 2022-02-16T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-02-16T12:40:00+01:00
Location: zoom

Wednesday 16 Feb 2022, 08:00 → 12:40 Europe/Berlin

zoom

This will be an online meeting: https://desy.zoom.us/j/81030776126 Passcode: 741243

Description

An online event to promote cultural heritage sciences at the synchrotron radiation facility SESAME.

The registration for this event has now been closed.

Frank Lehner

frank.lehner@desy.de

- Opening
  
  Convener: Frank Lehner (DESY)
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Speakers: Khaled Toukan (Director General of SESAME), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (President of the SESAME Council)
  - 2
    
    Goals of the Event
    
    Speaker: Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute)
- Overview of Cultural Heritage Science using Synchrotron Radiation
  
  Convener: Andrea Lausi (SESAME)
  - 3
    
    The Ancient Egyptian Cultural Heritage through Synchrotron Beamlines
    
    Speaker: Mohamed Waheed Ali ElMorsi (Conservation Centre, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization)
    
    Mohamed Waheed - SESAME Heritage Day - 2022.pdf
  - 4
    
    Cultural Heritage at the ESRF: from the discovery of masters' secrets to the conservation of artworks
    
    Speaker: Marine Cotte (ESRF)
    
    SESAME_cotte.pdf
- SESAME and its capabilities
  
  Convener: Axel Kaprolat (ESRF)
  - 5
    
    Overview of SESAME and its experimental capabilities
    
    Speaker: Andrea Lausi (Scientific Director of SESAME)
    
    SESAME_overview_ALausi.pdf
- 09:30
  
  Virtual Coffee Break
- Selected Research Highlights in Cultural and Natural Heritage Science
  
  Four selected research highlights (each 15')
  
  Convener: Axel Kaprolat (ESRF)
  - 6
    
    Highlight 1: Insight with Synchrotron light into Nabataean painting materials: a micro-spectroscopic study
    
    Speaker: Maram Na'es (Institute for Optics and Atomic Physics, TU Berlin)
    
    Naes_SESAME_CHD_20220216-shared.pdf
  - 7
    
    Highlight 2: Archaeometry (Cancelled)
  - 8
    
    Highlight 3: The Elephantine papyri
    
    Speaker: Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke / Verena Lepper (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection & FU/HU Berlin & HZB)
    
    SESAME Papyri-forpdf_EMahnke.pdf
  - 9
    
    Highlight 4: Past, Present, Future: Let the Synchrotron Light Shine the Path
    
    Speaker: Amir Rozatian (Department of Physics, University of Isfahan)
    
    Past-Present-Future_ARozatian.pdf
- 10:40
  
  Virtual Coffee Break
- Selected Research Highlights in Cultural and Natural Heritage Science
  
  Four selected research highlights (each 15')
  
  Convener: Wolfgang Eberhardt (DESY)
  - 10
    
    Highlight 5: Studying archaeological glass collection from the Petra Church
    
    Speaker: Fatma Marii (University of Jordan)
    
    SEASAME_2022_FM.pdf
  - 11
    
    Hightlight 6: Paleontology with computed tomography
    
    Speaker: Kudakwashe Jakata (ESRF)
    
    SESAME_cultural_heritage_2022_Kuda.pdf
  - 12
    
    Highlight 7: Collaborating with SESAME: Questions, Problems, and Future of Cultural Heritage Studies in Turkey
    
    Speaker: Gonca Dardeniz Arıkan (Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Istanbul University)
    
    Sesame_Turkey.pdf
  - 13
    
    Highlight 8: (Bio)archeological samples
    
    Speaker: Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute)
    
    SESAME_KL.pdf
- Discussions
  - How can we best promote cultural heritage research and foster cooperation
  - How can concrete research ideas advance into projects at SESAME?
  Convener: Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute)
- 14
  
  Closing Remarks
  
  Summarizing the event and what are the future steps and perspectives?
  
  Speaker: Dr Andrea Lausi (SESAME)