General Information
The 3rth Latin-American Symposium on Physical and Chemical Methods in Archaeology, Art and Cultural Heritage Conservation (LASMAC 2011) will be carried out from November 8 to 10, 2011. The objective of this symposium is to present and to discuss the most recent and new Latin-American researches for the study of the cultural heritage and the historical past using the most diverse techniques and scientific methodologies, including non destructive methods, nuclear techniques and ion beam accelerators, optical and electronic microscopy, imaging techniques, experimental archaeology, archaeo-magnetism and paleo-magnetism, all kind of chemical methods, dating, deterioration studies and conservation procedures. This forum is open to conservators, physicist, chemists, art historians, engineers, archaeologists, and other specialists involved with the scientific study of the cultural heritage and archaeological and historical collections. This meeting will open a space for the collaborations between different groups and specialists, as well for network and collaboration in the American continent and with European facilities.
The LASMAC meeting was organized by the first time in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2007 (LASMAC 2007) and then in Mexico in 2009 (LASMAC 2009). In this opportunity Lima, Peru will receive, besides the Latin-American and North-American areas, the colleagues from European and Asia countries, in order to provide an integral frame of specialists working in this kind of studies.
The symposium will include invited lectures of 25 minutes as well as oral presentations of 15 min, selected by the Scientific Committee of the Symposium. Several sessions of posters will be organized. Some courses of 6 hours may be carried out during the first day of the meeting. A special publication with the most outstanding contributions will be prepared.