International LED 2023 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
17th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating (LED 2023)
25-30 June 2023
Host institution
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU Physics)
Venue
DGI Byen's conference centre, Copenhagen
Local Organising Committee
Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Pia Lone Elhauge, Vicki Hansen, Mayank Jain, Myungho Kook, Merete Holmegaard, Larsen, Bent Lauritzen, Karsten Bracht Nielsen, Tue Strange Nygaard, Kristina Jørkov Thomsen
International Scientific Committee
Lee Arnold (University of Adelaide, Australia), Andrzej Bluszcz (Silesian University of Technology, Poland), Jan-Pieter Buylaert (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Naveen Chauhan (Physical Research Laboratory, India), Makaiko Chithambo (Rhodes University, South Africa), Regina DeWitt (East Carolina University, USA), Geoff Duller (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom), Mathieu Duval (CENIEH, Spain), Xiao Fu (Zhejiang University, China), Mayank Jain (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Georgina King (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Naomi Porat (Geological Survey of Israel, Israel), Tammy Rittenour (Utah State University, USA), André Sawakuchi (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Toru Tamura (Geological Survey of Japan, Japan), Kristina Thomsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Alida Timar-Gabor (Babes Bolyai University, Romania), Sumiko Tsukamoto (LIAG, Germany), Liping Zhou (Peking University, China)
Proceedings
Radiation Measurements and Quaternary Geochronology (2024)
Short description
The 17th International Luminescence and Electron Spin ResonanceDating conference organised by the Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark, was held at DGI Byen’s conference centre, CPH Conference, in Copenhagen from 25 to 30th June 2023. The Organising Committee chaired by Mayank Jain consisted of Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Pia Lone Elhauge, Vicki Hansen, Myungho Kook, Merete Holmegaard Larsen, Bent Lauritzen, Karsten Bracht Nielsen, Tue Strange Nygaard and Kristina Thomsen. More than 240 participants from 31 countries attended. The conference centre selected by the organisers provided an excellent venue, with lots of opportunities for discussions both in formal sessions and informally over coffee, lunch and during poster presentations. The previous conference in the series had to be held online in 2021 due to Covid restrictions, and the return to an in-person conference with all the benefits that follow was very widely welcomed. A mid-conference excursion to Roskilde was a highlight of the social events, with delegates being able to choose between a visit to Roskilde cathedral (a UNESCO designated World Heritage site) and then seeing the luminescence laboratories at the Risø campus of DTU a few kilometres north of Roskilde, or the opportunity to row and sail authentic reconstructions of Viking long boats on Roskilde fjord. These boats have been built at the Viking Ship Museum on the banks of the fjord, and participants had the opportunity to tour the museum and to hear about how the boats had been made. In the evening a conference dinner at the Risø campus provided a memorable evening for all. Prior to the conference, a workshop on Rock Surface Dating was held on the Sunday ahead of the academic sessions. The workshop provided participants with an introduction to this exciting area of research, covering topics such as different kinetic models and their application, dose-rate variation, and use of a portable luminescence imager for measuring luminescence-depth profiles. Conference sessions ran over 5 days with 76 oral and 155 poster presentations. Sessions focussed on topics covering fundamentals of luminescence and electron spin resonance phenomena, instrumentation, methods for dose determination, and dose rate determination. A large part of the conference also covered geological and archaeological applications of luminescence and electron spin resonance dating (ESR).
Four prizes were awarded during the conference: Joe Winzar (Aberystwyth University, UK) was awarded the Martin Aitken Award for the best student oral presentation, Linda Maßon (University of Cologne, Germany) the Vagn Mejdahl Award for the best student poster presentation, Aimin Zhang (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) the Ann Wintle award for the best student presentation in application, and Chang Huang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China) the Lars Bøtter-Jensen award for the best student presentation in fundamental research.
This text was taken from the Editorial of the Radiation Measurements Special Issue of LED 2023 (Duller et al., 2024).
