Summer 2011

POSTER SESSION: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND INSTRUMENTATION

Inclusion Mapping in Diamonds
Akiva Caspi

Symmetry: From Assessments to Metrics
Akiva Caspi and Avi Kerner

Instrumental Color Measurement and Grading of Faceted Gemstones
Yan Liu

Automated Real-Time Spectral Analysis for Gemstones
Quetzalcoatl Magaña and Stephen Balinskas

Determining the Provenance of Gemstones Using the Materialytics Sequencing System (M2S)
Catherine McManus, Tristan Likes, Nancy McMillan, Kristen Yetter, Jim Dowe, Michael Wise, Steve Buckley, Gregg Lithgow, Chris Stipes, and Peter Torrione

Recent Advances in Synthetic Sapphire Growth
Jennifer Stone-Sundberg

Provenance of Rubies and Sapphires: An Application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Advanced Chemometrics for the Gem Industry
Kristen Yetter, Nancy J. McMillan, Catherine McManus, and Tristan Likes

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