Sydney. On Thursday, August 9th at the Italian Institute of Culture in Sydney, on the occasion of the Italian Research Week in the World, an initiative of MAECI (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), the conference “Crystallography and cultural heritage: Science and passion” will be held by Professor Gilberto Artioli from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padua. The conference will be held entirely in English and will cover the crystallography and the science of materials for identifying and understanding materials of a different nature, including those important for cultural heritage. Artioli is one of the leading experts in the field of archaeometry, i.e. the discipline that applies scientific techniques to the analysis of archaeological materials. (9Colonne)
