IRES: U.S.-Netherlands Forensic Research Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Science

文化遗产方面的科学研究是在STEM研究生和本科教育中进行跨学科、综合和全球科学培训的有力工具，并且始终超过STEM的性别包容基准。美国-荷兰国际学生研究体验(IRES)项目支持三个学生团队，每个团队包括一名本科生和四名研究生，他们前往荷兰进行研究访问，研究文化遗产文物的材料、结构和年代。该项目将艺术分析作为一种方式，为化学、材料科学、电气工程和计算机科学的美国学生参与者提供独特的研究和教育经验。由首席调查员Marc Walton领导的与荷兰同行的合作活动旨在为跨学科文化遗产科学提供先进的基础设施，同时促进美国和荷兰公认的卓越中心之间的长期合作伙伴关系。我们的目标是促进我们对复杂系统中变化的理解，在复杂系统中，结果可能会导致我们获取、解释和关心艺术的方式得到改善。在成功的情况下，在多个时间尺度上开发先进的痕量着色剂检测技术、独立的化学传感以及材料变更和变化的经验和预测模型，可以成为从法医和安全到高性能涂料等领域创新的重要驱动力。为期八周的IRES体验将集中在阿姆斯特丹的Atelier大楼(AteliergeBouw)，这是一个核心设施，汇集了阿姆斯特丹大学、荷兰国家博物馆、荷兰文化遗产局的科学研究部门、代尔夫特理工大学和荷兰法医研究所。除了这些机构的荷兰专家导师外，与芝加哥艺术学院、大都会艺术博物馆和华盛顿特区国家美术馆等美国主要博物馆的科学家合作，将确保IRES学生及时关注与识别和表征重要艺术作品有关的技术问题。通过接触在各自领域处于领先地位的文化遗产科学家，IRES参与者有望为了解和监测复杂系统中的变化这一中心主题做出贡献，包括以下领域：1)艺术和法医学中的微分析工具，2)复杂涂料系统中的变化和反应性，以及3)成像和数据挖掘。回到美国后，IRES的参与者将在戈登研究研讨会上介绍他们在文化遗产研究中的科学方法以及在科学和保护方面的专业会议上的工作成果。总体而言，这一IRES将有助于建立一支在全球范围内参与的美国科学和工程劳动力队伍，能够在跨学科和国际研究环境中脱颖而出，在这些环境中，科学可以带来变革。

Scientific research in cultural heritage is a powerful vehicle for interdisciplinary, integrated and global science training in STEM graduate and undergraduate education and consistently exceeds STEM benchmarks of gender inclusion. This U.S.-Netherlands International Research Experience for Students (IRES) project supports three student cohorts, each consisting of one undergraduate and four graduate students, for research visits to the Netherlands to study the materials, structures and aging of cultural heritage artifacts. The program approaches the analysis of art as a way to provide unique research and educational experiences for U.S. student participants in chemistry, materials science, electrical engineering, and computer science. Led by Principal Investigator, Marc Walton, the cooperative activities with Dutch counterparts are designed to provide access to advanced infrastructure for interdisciplinary cultural heritage science while fostering long-term partnerships between recognized centers of excellence in the U.S. and the Netherlands. The goal is to advance our understanding of change in complex systems where results may lead to improvements in the way we access, interpret, and care for art. Where successful, resulting development of advanced technologies for detection of trace colorants, stand-off chemical sensing, and empirical and predictive models of materials alteration and change, at multiple time scales, can be important drivers for innovation in fields that range from forensics and security to high performance coatings.The eight-week IRES experience will be centered at the Atelier Building (Ateliergebouw) in Amsterdam, a core facility that brings together the University of Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum, the scientific research arm of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, the Delft University of Technology, and the Netherlands Forensic Institute. In addition to the Dutch expert mentors from these institutions, collaborations with scientists at major U.S. museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., will ensure timely focus to the IRES students' examination of technical questions related to identifying and characterizing important works of art. With access to cultural heritage scientists who are leaders in their field, the IRES participants are expected to contribute to the central theme of understanding and monitoring change in complex systems, including these areas: 1) microanalytical tools in art and forensics, 2) change and reactivity in complex paint systems, and 3) imaging and data mining. Upon return to the U.S., IRES participants are to present the results of their work at the Gordon Research Seminars on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research and at professional meetings in the sciences and in conservation. Overall, this IRES will contribute to a globally engaged U.S. science and engineering workforce, capable of excelling in interdisciplinary and international research environments, where science can be transformative.