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Alessandro Costantini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)05/03/2026, 14:30Bits: Digital tools, data analysis and artificial intelligence for cultural heritage
The digital transformation of cultural heritage (CH) has accelerated in recent years, driven by the need for advanced tools to preserve, manage, and valorize historical assets. Within this context, INFN Cultural heritage network participated, trough its members, to a set of initiatives aimed at promoting and valorizing digital competences.
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Among such initiatives the 4CH project, funded under... -
Serena Barone05/03/2026, 14:50Bits: Digital tools, data analysis and artificial intelligence for cultural heritage
Spectral imaging techniques, such as Macro Area X-RayFluorescence (MA-XRF), are extremely powerful methods to investigate the composition of pictorial artworks. The produced data contains a vast amount of information about the composition of the pictorial artwork under scrutiny; nevertheless, post-processing analyses to extract such meaningful information are usually complex, lengthy, and...
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Marta Magalini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)05/03/2026, 15:10Bits: Digital tools, data analysis and artificial intelligence for cultural heritage
This research focuses on the application of advanced digital technologies to the study and restoration of Nuragic pottery. The reconstruction of fragmented archaeological artefacts is a key challenge in cultural heritage research, enabling both the physical restoration of objects and a deeper understanding of their intact shape, typology, and function. Traditional manual reassembly requires...
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Dr Matteo Bettuzzi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Università di Bologna)05/03/2026, 15:30Beams: Advanced diagnostics and instrumentation
The demand from owners and institutions for radiographic imaging of artworks has been steadily increasing in both volume and complexity over time and substantially continues to grow. At the same time, available technology, such as CT systems and components, with a particular focus on data processing, are also rapidly evolving.
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A comparison with other European groups revealed that the average... -
Dr Giulia Marcucci (Milano-Bicocca University and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano-Bicocca section)05/03/2026, 15:50Beams: Advanced diagnostics and instrumentation
The INFN CHNet Milano-Bicocca group plays a pivotal role in advancing neutron-based methodologies for Heritage Science, focussing on the development of strictly non-destructive investigative protocols. A key research frontier currently being explored, in close synergy with the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (UK), is the implementation of 4D neutron imaging. By exploiting resonance features at...
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Matteo Cataldo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)05/03/2026, 16:10Beams: Advanced diagnostics and instrumentation
Based on the interaction of negative muons with matter and the following emission of X-ray radiation (specific to the atom which absorbed the muon), Muonic atom X-ray Emission Spectroscopy (µXES) is a very powerful method for elemental characterisation. Compared to common methods, which employ X-ray and electron beams, a significant advantage of using negative muons is their remarkable...
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Miriana Marabotto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)05/03/2026, 16:30Beams: Advanced diagnostics and instrumentation
The study of ancient metallurgy, particularly the analysis of bronze and copper alloys, plays a crucial role in understanding the technological and artistic advancements of past civilisations. While traditional analysis involves invasive methods, such as SEM observation of cross sections and metallography, neutron-based techniques offer a highly promising solution for the non-invasive...
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Giulia Iorio (INFN Roma Tre, Università degli Studi Roma Tre)05/03/2026, 17:30Beauty: Integrated approaches for artworks and archaeological materials
The study of artworks, due to their material complexity and state of conservation, requires a multi-analytical approach based on complementary, non-invasive, and non-destructive techniques capable of providing compositional and morphological information. However, artworks are not always planar like paintings and may present complex geometries, such as sculptures or paintings on niches. It is...
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Carmine Lubritto05/03/2026, 17:55Beauty: Integrated approaches for artworks and archaeological materials
This work presents an integrated archaeometric research program aimed at reconstructing subsistence strategies, economic networks, and population dynamics at Pompeii and in the Vesuvian area at the time of the AD 79 eruption. The project combines stable isotope analyses (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N) on human, animal and botanical remains to refine dietary reconstructions and investigate agricultural and...
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Alessandro Re (University of Torino and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)05/03/2026, 18:15Beauty: Integrated approaches for artworks and archaeological materials
Over the last few decades, X-ray imaging has improved significantly as a high-resolution, non-destructive, and non-invasive tool for radiography and tomography, solving a major challenge of detecting internal structures of samples in different applications. Furthermore, since the enhancement of synchrotron sources, extremely coherent radiation has been used for non-traditional contrast...
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Lucilla Pronti (INFN-LNF)05/03/2026, 18:35Beauty: Integrated approaches for artworks and archaeological materials
The characterization of Cultural Heritage (CH) materials requires a multiscale and multi-analytical approach to fully understand the complexity of both original constituents and degradation products. This work discusses the potential of integrating diverse spectroscopic techniques across different spatial resolutions (micro and macro scale). Two primary technological approaches are...
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