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Preliminary programme 2026

Sunday (30 August)

16:00–18:30

Arrival (your room is available from 16:00)

18:30–20:00

Icebreaker

20:00–...

Dinner

Monday (31 August)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:00

Cosmic Rays and Production of Cosmogenic Nuclides
Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich)

09:00-09:45

Introduction to Radiocarbon
Irka Hajdas (ETHZ)

09:45-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-10:45

14C Calibration, Wiggle Matching and Calibration Tools
Irka Hajdas (ETHZ)

10:45-11:45

Why do we need AMS?
Marcus Christl (ETHZ)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

Cosmogenic Chlorine-36 as a Dating Tool: an Example of Application to Limestone Fault Scarps
Dmitry Tikhomirov (University of Zurich)

14:00-15:00

Pleistocene-Holocene Glacial Soil Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountains, WY, USA
Dennis Dahms (University of Northern Iowa, USA)

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-16:30

Examples of Exposure Dating
Fritz Schlunegger (University of Bern)
16:30-18:00 Luminescence Dating (and some field work)
Elena Serra (University of Lausanne)

18:00-19:10

Participant presentations

19:10-20:20

Dinner

20:20-21:00

Participant presentations

Tuesday (1 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:30

Loess-Paleosol Sequences – from Pedo- to Chronostratigraphy
Tobias Sprafke (Berner Fachhochschule)

09:30-10:00

Short briefing on today's field exercises
Markus Egli (University of Zurich)

10:00-10:45 Coffee break and preparation for field exercises

10:45-18:00

Field exercises and talks (lunch in the field)
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms, Dmitry Tikhomirov

19:00-...

Dinner

Wednesday (2 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:30

Data evaluation of soils and rock surfaces
Markus Egli, Dennis Dahms

09:30-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-12:00

Basics of Dendrochronology and Its Applications
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-16:00

Dendro applications and some field work
Holger Gärtner (WSL)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Mediterranean Tree Rings and the Minoan Eruption of Santorini
Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

17:30-19:10

Participant presentations

19:10-20:20

Dinner

20:20-21:00

Participant presentations

Thursday (3 September)

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:30-09:15

Tree-ring Dating of Musical Instruments
Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

09:15-10:00

Dendro Applications
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:30 Dendrodata evaluation
Holger Gärtner (WSL), Paolo Cherubini (WSL)

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Noble Gases and Groundwater Recharge in Glaciated Regions
Rolf Kipfer (EAWAG)

14:30-15:30

Age Dating Using Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides
Pascal Ruenzi (EAWAG)

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

An Introduction to Archaeomagnetic Dating:
Theory and Applications

Evdokia Tema (University of Torino, Italy)

17:00-19:00

Participant presentations

19:00-...

Dinner

Friday (4 September) without excursion

07:30-10:00

Breakfast

            -11:00

Departure (your room is available till 11:00)

Friday (4 September) with excursion

07:30-08:30

Breakfast

08:44-18:18

Excursion: "Permafrost of Muottas Muragl"
Holger Gärtner, Markus Egli

19:30-...

Dinner

Saturday (5 September)

07:30-10:00

Breakfast

           -11:00

Departure (your room is available till 11:00)
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