Program
- 19th - 21st September (Friday-Sunday), Pre-meeting excursion (3 days, 2 nights): Jurassic and Cretaceous of the Umbria Basin (Central Italy)
- 22nd September (Monday evening), Registration and Icebreaker Party at the “Auditorium Santa Apollonia”
- 23rd September (Tuesday morning and afternoon), Opening ceremony, Oral presentations, Poster Session, Paleozoic Working Group session
- 24th September (Wednesday), Oral presentations, Poster Session, Mesozoic Working Group session and Conference Dinner
- 25th September (Thursday morning or evening), Mid-meeting excursion: Geology of Florence historical heritage
- 26th September (Friday), Oral presentations, Poster Session, Cenozoic Group session, Business Meeting, Closing ceremony, Farewell Party at the "Auditorium Santa Apollonia"
- 27th - 30th September (Saturday-Tuesday), Post-meeting excursion (4 days, 3 nights): Stratigraphy and evolution of the Lagonegro Basin (Basilicata region, Southern Italy).
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS, PRELIMINARY TITLES
- S1 - Biostratigraphy and Taxonomy of Paleozoic Radiolarians (Conveners: Paula Noble and Tsuyoshi Ito)
- S2 - Biostratigraphy and Taxonomy of Mesozoic Radiolarians - Special Session in memory of Patricia Whalen (February 28th 1942 - July 7th 2024) and Emile A. Pessagno (January 23rd 1933 - May 26th 2024) (Conveners: Špela Gorićan, Rie S. Hori and Nevenka Djerić)
- S3 - Biostratigraphy and Taxonomy of Cenozoic and Recent radiolarians (Conveners: David Lazurus and Kenji Matsuzaki)
- S4 - Biology and ecology of radiolarians in modern and past oceans (Conveners: Fabrice Not and Sophie Westacott)
- S5 - Paleoceanography and paleoclimate (Conveners: Giuseppe Cortese and Takuya Itaki)
- S6 - Radiolarian biochronology and paleobiogeography in geodynamic research (Conveners: Ugur Kagan Tekin and Duje Kukoč)
- S7 - Radiolarians and global change: insights from ecology, biodiversity and biogeochemistry (Taniel Danelian, Tristan Biard, Jill Sutton and Aude Leynardt)
- S8 - The importance of radiolarians in supporting the establishment of GSSP (Conveners: Atsushi Matsuoka and Manuel Rigo)
- S9 - Radiolarians and siliceous sedimentation (Conveners: Peter O. Baumgartner and Angela Bertinelli)
- S10 - ECR day (Early Career Radiolarist Day), Special Session dedicated to Master, PhD and Post-Doc researchers (Conveners: Matthieu Civel and Natalia Llopis Monferrer)
The number of symposia and their final titles may change based on the received abstracts.
Special prizes
Conference dinner
Yoga lesson (Yogarads):
Teacher: Francesca Chiari
Date: 25th September (one class in the morning and one in the afternoon)
Would you like to relax your body and mind after the first days of meeting? The class, in English and Italian, is adaptable for all skill levels and ages. Vinyasa is breath and movement, connect with yourself for yourself, gift yourself a energizing and relaxing trip. Come practice with Francesca at the beautiful Yoga Garage school near the Cappelle Medicee in the center of Florence.
Yoga lesson (Yogarads)
“Opificio delle Pietre Dure” Museum
The Museum is annexed to the “Opificio delle Pietre Dure” (Via degli Alfani, 78).
Today a modern center specializing in restoration, the latter represents a direct off shoot of the Court Manufactory, which was founded in 1588 by Ferdinando I de Medici, for the processing of semi-precious stones.
The structure of the Museum, founded in 1882, does not correspond to a precise collections plan, but is instead a reflection of the events that shaped its centuries-old production activity.
The most prestigious creations, often presented as gifts by the Florentine Grand Dukes, are preserved in palaces and museums throughout Europe. The production workshops of the museum contain still unfinished works, some that are the result of subsequent modifications and dismantling, and those that survived nineteenth-century dispersion.
The latter ended in 1882 with the collection being turned into a museum. The collection, which includes specimens of great charm and refinement, is sufficient to outline the manufacturing history over three centuries. The museum also houses a large inventory of ancient marble and semi-precious stones.
Top table with parrot, flowers and military trophies, early seventeenth century
(Medici’s collection)
