First Announcement Technart 2011 – Berlin, April 26 – 29 2011

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that TECHNART 2011 (Non-destructive and Microanalytical Techniques in Art and Cultural Heritage Research) will take place in the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany from 26 to 29 April 2011.

The conference follows the successful organization of TECHNART 2007 in Lisbon, in April 2007 by Prof. Maria Luísa de Carvalho and in April 2009 in Athens organized by the Institute of Nuclear Physics at NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers at FORTH, Heraklion, Crete (IESL-FORTH).

The aim of TECHNART 2011 is to provide a scientific forum to present and promote the use of analytical spectroscopy techniques on the field of Cultural Heritage. The conference offers an outstanding and unique opportunity for exchanging knowledge on leading edge developments. Cultural Heritage studies are interpreted in a broad sense, including pigments, stones, metals, glass, ceramics, chemometrics on artwork studies, resins, fibers, forensic applications in art and archaeology, conservation etc.

TECHNART 2011 is organized by the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin in collaboration with the Technische Universität Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH.

You can find detailed information on the website: http://www.technart2011.bam.de

Please notice the deadline for paper submission is January 14, 2011.

We would appreciate it if you could circulate this announcement as widely as possible, and encourage your colleagues to attend.

For further questions please contact our organization office Mrs. Karin Pachaly and Ms. Ines Schülke (E-mail: technart2011@bam.de phone: +49 30 8104-3055).

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Oliver Hahn, Prof. Dr. Birgit Kanngießer, Dr. Andrea Denker, Karin Pachaly, Ines Schülke