31/08/15 Early Registration
23/10/15 Abstract Submission
31/01/16 Manuscripts deadline
31/10/15 Cancellation deadline
Including non-dating applications of luminescence and ESR (APLED-4)
Nov 22nd, 2015, DosiVox Workshop (optional)
Nov 23rd-25th, 2015, Conference, Adelaide, Australia
Nov 26-28th, 2015, Field Trip, Naracoorte, South Australia
The Braggs Building
School of Physical Sciences & Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia
The conference seeks to bring together researchers to present new developments in Luminescence and ESR, with particular focus on techniques, applications and issues relevant to the Asia-Pacific region.
Luminescence dating has its roots in the middle of the 20th century, with the landmark paper by Farrington Daniels and colleagues (Science, 1953) being the first to expound the application of Thermoluminescence as a dating technique for the geosciences and archaeology. The intervening years have seen the introduction of ESR and Optical Dating, and their rapid evolution and application to diverse fields in which ionising radiation effects provide either a "clock" or a characterisation tool. The conference invites contributions from this broad range of applications, including Quaternary geology, geomorphology and landscape evolution, palaeontology, palaeobotany, archaeology, soil science, palaeoclimatology, provenancing, mineral prospecting, tectonics, space science, dose-rate assessment, retrospective population dosimetry and radiological event studies, including relating to the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Contributions are also invited on applications to new materials, current developments and methodological aspects of ESR, Thermoluminescence and Radioluminescence, and novel Optical Dating techniques such as TT-OSL and PIR-IRSL.
