The call for papers has been issued.
This looks good. It is sponsored by the IEEE Italy Section and the Technical University of Bari, with technical co-sponsorship by the CIS (International Center for the Turin Shroud Studies – Turin). Just look at the list of people who are chairing or sitting on the program committee:
According to the website:
This workshop is an unprecedented opportunity for all those who are interested in contributing to the scientific studies on the Turin Holy Shroud. This world-wide appealing subject is now within the framework of a leading scientific organization such as the IEEE. This workshop aims to present and discuss all the aspects of this peculiar subject, especially concerning, but not limited to the following topics:
- image formation
- image processing
- dating
- textile’s manufacturing
- physicochemical aspects
- forensic medicine
- archaeology
- history
- philosophy
- iconography
Check out Call for Papers, Deadlines, Committee, Registration and Sponsorship links at the Workshops Home Page. A couple of things I’m hearing offline from others: The 25 seat limit is no longer being mentioned (there are 18 chairs and committee people) and English will be the language of the conference (simultaneous translation, as at some conferences?)
Given the breadth and scope of subjects including history, sponsorship, and the venue, one has to wonder about the wisdom of a fall conference in St. Louis for which there isn’t even yet a date.
I have also learned that even though this will be held in Italy, all the papers will be presented in English.
Two back to back conferences won’t work. It’s the authors of papers. To try to compete or do a me too could result in a costly failure. St. Louis is lovely in springtime.
At this point, I probably agree with Paulette. I notice that Emanuela Marinelli and others are now chatting up the Bari conference.
Who needs these ding dongs anyway, which are generally no more than a collective chewing of the cud?
Why not have an electronic Shroud congress instead, to which submissions would be invited and thrown open to discussion?
I nominate Dan Porter and his site to serve as mein host for the planet’s first Electronic Shroud Congress (on condition that submissions are listed by surname in alphabetical order ;-).
Colin,
You seem to have been stricken with an surfeit of reasonableness. Please don’t take the cure.
Of course, Shroud.com offers an historical archive on Shroud materials and Barrie’s frequent up dates are phenomenal, but an electronic conference with all the presentations on line. That really makes me tingle.
My problem is that the third week in September is an annual “retreat” for a group of married couples sans children (and grandchildren) at a beach house in Delaware. We’re old enough that the numbers are beginning to dwindle. My wife and I go back 43 years with one couple.
Maybe, someone might suggest to the IEEE a simulcast on the web. Skype anyone??
Careful Colin, my surname just precedes “Ber”. So maybe that would give you a soft target. At 51 years married, that gives me an edge, but my dad lived to 92, good genes!
I too want to live to be 92 daveb. That way I stand a (slim) chance of seeing in the day when the Vatican finally decides to arrange a re-run of the carbon dating. And who knows, Rogers’ Maillard reaction/impurity coating theory may even get to have a decent burial before my own…
….While CB’s mummy-leech et al scorch ‘theory’ would not even have been lamented.
…but only laughed at.
43 years, John K.? Snap.
In my case, it comes with a touch of advancing senility, despite constant ministrations from spousal unit, like my writing “ding-dong” above when I meant to say shindig.
Yes, there’s scope for Skype too or similar. Can a real-time video-conferencing session be embedded in a blog site? It would serve as a long-overdue opportunity to get the mass media focused on the mainstream of Shroud studies, instead of it being prey, as at present, to every passing opportunist or attention-seeker playing on ignorance or gullibility.
There will also be authorities, two from Israel and one from Sri Lanka (at Uppsala University) at the Bari Conference. Of course, both conferences, at St. Louis and Bari, will bring up interesting issues.
I have read that Vernon Cooray, Uppsala University, Sweden,
is one of the member of Program Committee ( http://dee.poliba.it/atsi2014/committee_3.html )
and,
under the address :
http://www.sasnet.lu.se/institutions/division-electricity-and-lightning-research-uppsala-university
you can read :
>Prof. Cooray is working on research connected to atmospheric discharges and lightning. His research group at Uppsala University has initiated a collaboration with scientists from three South Asian educational institutes, namely, the University of Colombo (UC), and the University of Peradeniya (UP), both in Sri Lanka, and the prestigeous Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India.
>The research will be specialized on lightning and electrical transients in tropical environments, in order to facilitate postgraduate education and strengthen the research activities related to the lightning and its effects, with power and telecommunication systems as the target.
>Both India and Sri Lanka are countries located in the tropical regions with high thunderstorm activity and this gives an excellent opportunity to carry out all the required field measurements with real lightning strikes. Also both UU and IISc have excellent high voltage laboratory facilities for testing of equipments and protection devices using lightning voltage and current sources representative of real lightning.
>In October 2007, Prof. Cooray received SEK 450 000 as a three-years grant (2008-10) from the Swedish Research Links programme (funded by Sida and the Swedish Research Council) for this South Asia related project titled ”A collaborative research and education program between Sweden, India and Sri Lanka on the effects of tropical lightning flashes on power and telecommunication systems”
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Last week I visited an exposition (in Biella) and then (during that visit) …
I have seen the project of an artist (who is also an electric engineer)
and I have read the claims about the Poggendorff’s motors
(1870) : using the helium-filled balloon and a wire
is possible to use the electric charge (Earth’s field) for the motor.
To understand the question, see also, for example under :
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-amazing-motor-that-draws-power-from-the-air/
or
http://www.meridian-int-res.com/Energy/ESMotors.pdf
Now … I want to ask :
Is it possible to use that source of energy
(used for corona-discharge motors) in order to show
what are the results obtained on linen sheet
following the system by Giulio Fanti = CD (= corona discharge) ?
I asked to prof. Fanti, but he is too busy and he
has not yet answered to me.
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I am a bit skeptic about the presumed electric origin for the famous Image …
B.T.W. : few days ago and few kilometers from Biella (… and not in India … !),
a guard was bowled over by a lighting bolt !
The name of that (living) person (with the hand nailed by that bolt)
is Salvatore Galizia, 37 years (institute = Group Service 2000) …
There is a link.
But in italian language, sorry :
http://lastampa.it/2013/10/12/edizioni/biella/colpito-da-un-fulmine-salvo-per-miracolo-PC29AOTy80d8zvhI9LM7oN/pagina.html
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What is your interesting opinion ?
Thank you for your attention.