[Aqualist] Asia Pacific Luminescence ESR Dating conference Adelaide November 22-26th 2015

[Nigel Antony Spooner]

Dear Colleagues,

The 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Luminescence and ESR dating including non-dating applications (APLED 2015) will be held in Adelaide, Australia, from the 22nd - 26th November, 2015.

APLED 2015 will be hosted by the Environmental Luminescence Group of the School of Physical Sciences, and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and the Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, South 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. The scope of the conference is as follows:

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.

Further information on the conference, including details about abstract submission and registration, can be found on our web site at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apled2015/

Please pass this announcement along to colleagues interested in luminescence and ESR and their dating applications.

We look forward to welcoming you to Adelaide,

Nigel Spooner and Lee Arnold (on behalf of the local organising committee).



Nigel A. Spooner
Adjunct Professor, Luminescence
School of Physical Sciences & Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing
University of Adelaide,
North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Tel.: +618-8313-4852
Mob.: +61448-367-101
Nigel.spooner at adelaide.edu.au