Scientific Programme

Thursday, 13 November: Pre-Conference Workshops

Location: Room 013 (ground floor) Geographisches Institut (map)

Time Event Speaker Location Title
11:30–12:00 Arrival
12:00–14:30 Keynote Lecture Thomas Kolb Gießen, DE TRapped with Thomas: The R Workshop
14:30–15:00 Coffee break
15:00–17:00 Keynote Lecture Dirk Mittelstraß Heidelberg, DE How to identify and separate quartz OSL components using the R packages Luminescence and OSL decomposition
19:00 Dinner at Dorfschänke, Lutherstr. 14, 69120 Heidelberg

Friday,14 November: DLED Day 1

Location: Heidelberger Akademie der Wisseschaften (map)

Time Event Speaker Location Title
10:00–12:00 Registration and welcome
12:00–13:00 Lunch break
13:00–13:30 Welcome remarks
13:30 Contributed Talk Salome Oehler Lausanne, CH T1: Advancing terrestrial surface air temperature reconstruction using feldspar thermoluminescence palaeothermometry
14:00 Contributed Talk Xumin Pan Nanjing, CN; Cologne, DE T2: Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of Holocene Black Soil redistribution in North‑eastern China
14:30 Contributed Talk Annette Kadereit Heidelberg, DE T3: Can we progress pIRIR and MET IRSL SAR by progressively elevating the temperature?
15:00 Contributed Talk Christoph Schmidt Lausanne, CH T4: How old are the Nazca Lines?
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00 Contributed Talk Lucas Ageby Cologne, DE T5: Signal‑Depth profiling of rock surfaces with a reader‑mounted EMCCD Camera: a tool for tracking clast movement and understanding geomorphic processes?
16:30 Contributed Talk Andres Melo Giron T6: The Shaman of Bad Dürenberg: new burial ages based on luminescence dating
17:00 Contributed Talk Yicheng Pu Beijing, CN T7: OSL‑thermochronology reveals rapid exhumation at Icy Point, Alaska
17:30–19:00 Poster and hands‑on session
19:00 Dinner at Vetter’s, Steingasse 9, 69117 Heidelberg

Saturday, 15 November: DLED Day 2

Location: Heidelberger Akademie der Wisseschaften (map)

Time Event Speaker Location Title
09:00 Contributed Talk Barbara Mauz Salzburg, AT T8: Improving the estimation of high natural luminescence doses using OTOR solutions
09:30 Contributed Talk Marijn van der Meij Cologne, DE T9: Biases in minimum dose estimates of modern samples
10:00 Contributed Talk Marco Colombo Heidelberg, DE T10: Progress towards reproducible luminescence data analysis: the REPLAY project
10:30 Contributed Talk Clemens Woda Munich, DE T11: Uncertainty assessment in retrospective dosimetry
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:30 Invited Talk Frank Preusser Freiburg, DE T12: Where is the upper dating limit of MET post‑IR IRSL in the Alpine Foreland and the Upper Rhine Graben?
12:30–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–14:15 Keynote Lecture Ashok K. Singhvi Shantou, CN; Ahmedabad, IN T13 (video) Reminiscing five decades of cohabitation with luminescence dating
14:15 Contributed Talk Anna‑Lena Geis Giessen, DE T14: Assessing the stability of Infrared Photoluminescence signals
14:45 Contributed Talk Janina Nett Cologne, DE T15: Determining the geochemical composition of single grains using µXRF
15:15 Contributed Talk Sebastian Kreutzer Heidelberg, DE T16: Environmental gamma dose rate measurements using cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors
15:45–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:30 Panel discussion and closing remarks
19:00 Dinner at Zafferano, Poststr. 34, 69115 Heidelberg

Sunday, 16 November: Post-conference Odenwald Hike

Time Event
08:00 Start hiking from conference venue
08:00–12:00 Long hike
12:00–13:00 Guided tour of the museum of Heid’sches Haus for the Homo Heidelbergensis von Mauer
13:00 Farewell sausage at Amon’s Hofladen