Summer School Program

The program of theoretical lectures covers the application of different types of radiation sources to cultural heritage, including ionizing electromagnetic radiation, charged particles and ion beams, radioisotopes, new advanced techniques, etc.

  • The INFN Cultural Heritage Network (INFN-CHNet). Francesco Taccetti, INFN-Florence (Italy)
  • MA-XRF basic theory and acquisition of the CHNet scanner. Lisa Castelli, INFN-Florence (Italy)
  • MA-XRF practical information, strengths and limits of the technique and of the CHNet scanner. Chiara Ruberto, INFN-Florence (Italy) and UNIFI
  • Ion Beam Analysis for provenance investigation of cultural heritage materials. Marta Magalini, INFN-Turin (Italy)
  • Ion Beam Analysis for Cultural Heritage: instrumentation and technological innovations. Caroline Czelusniak, INFN-Florence (Italy)
  • A portable X-ray Tomography Prototype for Cultural Heritage: Design and Applications. Rodolfo Panerai and Lorenzo Giuntini, INFN-Florence (Italy) and UNIFI
  • Statistical uncertainty in radiation emission: an intrinsic, or random, error that affects the precision of any measurement. Francesco Teodori, UNIBO (Italy)
  • Understanding the X-ray emission spectrum after excitation with an X-ray source: From theory to experiment. Jorge E. Fernandez, UNIBO (Italy)
  • Full recovering of an X-ray spectrum from detector influence (Inverse problem). Jorge E. Fernandez, UNIBO (Italy)
  • X-ray Computed Tomography for cultural heritage: custom CT systems and case-studies. Maria Pia Morigi, UNIBO (Italy)
  • Radiation Transport with Monte Carlo simulation. Marco Sumini, UNIBO (Italy)
  • Chromatographic and mass spectrometry techniques (GC-MS, LC-MS) applied to archaeological materials. Valeria Pilar Careaga, FCE-UBA (Argentina)
  • Vibrational spectroscopies (IR and Raman) for the identification of painting materials. Marta Maier, FCE-UBA (Argentina)
  • Mass spectrometry applied to cultural heritage (specifically TIMS and ICP-MS). Francesco Ferella, INFN-Lab. Gran Sasso (Italy)
  • Positron annihilation spectroscopy and the use of positron beams. Applications in Cultural Heritage. Rafael Ferragut, Milan Polytechnic (Italy)
  • Assessment of radon exposure in sites of particular historical and artistic significance. Simona Mancini and Michele Guida, UNISA (Italiy)
  • The use of radiation for study and diagnosis of artworks. Fernando Marte and MarcosTascon, UNSAM (Argentina)
  • Characterization of materials by traceable X-ray spectrometry. Burkhard Beckhoff, PTB-Berlin (Germany)
  • Beyond MA-XRF: synchrotron radiation-based imaging methods in cultural heritage. Koen Janssens, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
  • Applications of radiocarbon dating to Cultural Heritage and Archaeology. Mariaelena Fedi, Lucia Liccioli e Serena Barone, INFN-Florence (Italy)
  • New Perspectives in Cultural Heritage Research through Spatially Resolved Energy-Dispersive Inelastic X-ray Scattering Spectroscopy. Juan José Leani, FaMAF-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
  • PIXE applications for historical and material analysis of archaeological objects. Josefina Schweickardt, Museo de la Patagonia (PNNH-APN) and Pablo Daniel Pérez, Centro Atómico Bariloche (CAB-CNEA) and CONICET, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina