A double feature with Kai Riehle

Sometimes, when you give a presentation, it just feels right and when you are done, you know that you delivered well. Doesn’t happen all the time, but sometimes, I’m that lucky.

Last week I was very happy to present a joint talk with archaeologist Kai Riehle on Local pottery production and imports at Monte Iato: A Chemical Perspective. The venue was the COLLOQUIA ON PORTABLE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE, a series of such joint lectures planned and organized by the The Global p-XRF Network. And yes, that is a network focusing on portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, which I usually don’t use and am no expert in. However, Michaela Schauer, one of the initiators of this network kindly asked me to present on Neutron Activation Analysis. I hope I did not dissapoint.

The presentation was recorded and I’m happy to link it here:

As I said, I’m very happy about this talk myself, but Kai did really great as well. The discussion afterwards was very interesting, so all in all, it was a very nice evening. Thank you very much to the chair, Prof. Ioannis Liritzis and to Keelie Rix, who took the brunt of the organisation, herding Kai and me :-).

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