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08:30 | 09:30 | Registration (During Registration Snacks & Tea to volunteers will be available) |
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09:30 | 10:45 | Inaugural Function |
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09:30 | 09:40 | Welcome & Context setting of the symposium (including Traditional lighting of the lamp, Release of Abstract book cum souvenir) | AVR Reddy, Secretary, OC & CEO, GII |
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09:40 | 09:45 | Welcome & Initial Remarks | Mehul Shah, Chairman, OC & GII and VP, BDB |
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09:45 | 09:50 | Remarks | Anoop Mehta, President, BDB |
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09:50 | 09:55 | Remarks | Mr Shaunak Parikh, Vice Chairman, GJEPC |
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09:55 | 10:05 | Remarks by Guest of Honour | Tom Moses, Exe. Vice President, GIA, USA |
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10:05 | 10:15 | Remarks by Guest of Honour | Prof M.S. Ramchandra Rao, IITM, Chennai |
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10:15 | 10:20 | Vote of Thanks | Anup Zaveri, Managing Trustee, GII |
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10:20 | 10:40 | Tea Break |
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10:40 | 13:10 | Session 1 Technical: Diamonds Related | Chairman: |
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10:40 | 11:10 | IT 1: Colour Centres in Diamond for Quantum and Many Technological Applications | Prof M.S. Ramchandra Rao, IITM, Chennai | |
11:10 | 11:40 | IT 2: Impact of green fluorescence on fancy-colored diamonds. | Dr. Wuyi Wang, GIA, USA. | |
11:40 | 12:10 | IT 3: The modern aspects of growth of high quality diamonds crystals and enhancement of natural and lab grown diamonds | Alexandar Bulatov, RAS, Moscow, Russia. | |
12:10 | 12:25 | CO 1: IITM |
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12:25 | 12:40 | CO 2: GII 1 |
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12:40 | 13:00 | CO 3: GII 2 |
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13:00 | 13:10 | Summary of the session |
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13:10 | 14:10 | Lunch Break |
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14:10 | 16:35 | Session 2 Technical: Diamond related | Chair: Prof. M S Ramachandra Rao |
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14:10 | 14:40 | IT 4: Quantum and gem applications of chemical vapor deposition grown single crystal diamond | Dr. Padmnabh Rai, CEBC, Mumbai |
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14:40 | 15:10 | IT 5: Diamonds for widefield imaging and biological sensing | Dr. Kasturi Saha, IITB, Mumbai |
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15:10 | 15:40 | IT 6: Multi-treated low-nitrogen pink diamonds | Dr. Michael Mintrone, SSEF, Switzerland |
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15:40 | 15:55 | CO 4: BARC |
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15:55 | 16:10 | CO 5: CEBC |
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16:10 | 16:25 | CO 6: IITB |
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16:25 | 16:35 | Summary by Chair |
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16:35 | 16:50 | Tea Break |
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16:50 | 18:55 | Session 3 Technical: Jewellery & Hallmarking | Chair: Mehul Shah |
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16:50 | 17:20 | IT 7: Designing of Jewellery and Quality Check in Jewellery | Mr. Janak Mistry, Surat |
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17:20 | 17:50 | IT 8: A golden standard: The success story of mandatory hallmarking | Mr. Sanjiv Maini, Head MED, Bureau of Indian Standards |
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17:50 | 18:20 | IT 9: The standardization of methods for precious metal testing to elevate confidence in trading of precious metal products and Hall Marking in Thailand | Mr.Jakraphan Suwanvijit, GIT, Thailand | |
18:20 | 18:45 | Combined Q&A |
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18:45 | 18:55 | Summary by Chairman |
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09:00 | 10:45 | Session 4 Technical: Pearls | Chair: Ms. Noora Jamsheer |
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09:00 | 09:15 | Contest setting to the session on Pearl testing and An overview of the work in DANAT | Noora J, CEO, DANAT |
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09:15 | 09:45 | IT 10: Advanced techniques for organic gem material analysis: DNA Fingerprinting and C14 age dating. | Dr. A. Sato, SSEF |
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09:45 | 10:15 | IT 11: Traditional Pearl Bleaching Methods in Bahrain: A Case Study on Pinctada Radiata | Mr. Ali Alatawi, Director laboratory, DANAT | |
10:15 | 10:30 | CO 7: Development in Pearl Treatment and Processing Identification – Long-Wave UV and Short-Wave UV Fluorescence Spectroscopy | Dr. Chunhui Zhou, GIA | |
10:30 | 10:45 | Summary by Chairman |
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10:45 | 11:00 | Tea Break |
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11:00 | 13:15 | Session 5 Technical: Colour Gemstones Related | Chair: |
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11:00 | 11:30 | IT 12: Determination of Emerald Geographical Origin Using Trace Element and Machine Learning | Mr.Thanong Leelawatanasuk, GIT |
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11:30 | 12:00 | IT 13: The Geology And Gem Deposits of Sri Lanka | Mr. Gamini Zoyasa, Gem and Jewellery Institute of Thailand |
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12:00 | 12:30 | IT 14: Myanmar and Vietnam Gem Deposits–Science and Technology | Dr. Edward Liu |
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12:30 | 12:45 | CO 8: Field Gemmology | Dr. Wim Vertriest, GIA |
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12:45 | 13:00 | CO 9: Implementation of LED-Technology for Enhanced Colorstone Grading | Dr. Thanapong Lhuaamporn, GIT |
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13:00 | 13:15 | Summary by Chairman |
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13:15 | 14:15 | Lunch Break |
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14:15 | 15:55 | Session 6 Technical: Diamond & Pearls related | Anchor: |
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14:15 | 15:25 | Panel 1: Coloured Stones and Pearls |
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15:25 | 15:40 | Q&A and Summary by Chairman |
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15:40 | 15:55 | CO 10: Jayshree Panjikar (Identification of Natural, Treated, Synthetic & Treated-Synthetic Saphire using simple methods) |
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15:55 | 16:55 | Session 7 Poster session | Anchor: |
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15:55 | 16:40 | Posters | Mr. Shripalkumar Desai |
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16:40 | 16:55 | Q&A and Summary by Chairman |
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16:55 | 17:10 | Tea Break |
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17:10 | 18:00 | Valedictory Function | President: |
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17:10 | 17:20 | Summary of the Symposium | Dr. A.V.R. Reddy |
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17:20 | 17:30 | Valedictory Address | Mehul Shah |
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17:30 | 17:45 | Felicitation of Speakers and Anchors | Nitin V. Pachchigar |
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17:45 | 18:00 | Vote of Thanks | Shripalkumar Desai |
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