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Announcement

   
 

We are glad to announce that the 2nd International Diamond Cut Conference (IDCC-2) will take place in Switzerland in spring 2009.

Dates

From Sunday March 22 to Wednesday March 25, 2009, just before Basel World 2009 Jewelry and Watch Fair

Venue

Lausanne, Switzerland - located on the shores of Lake Geneva, a 40 minute train ride from Geneva International Airport and 2 hours from Basel.

Registration fee

The conference fee will be approximately Euro 500. The exact fee will depend on the number of attendees and sponsors.

Language

English is the official language of the conference.

Call for contributions

Following IDCC-1 open policy we invite all contributions for keynote lectures, short talks or poster presentations. Should you be interested, please send the proposed titles of your contribution to cut.conference@octonus.ch

Information and contact

The conference homepage is located at http://idcc2.octonus.com

We encourage you to join the IDCC-2 forum http://idcc2.octonus.com/forum/ and pose common questions/suggestions on the message board. The conference organizers check the message board daily and will give you an answer as soon as possible.

For private communications with organizers please email at cut.conference@octonus.ch

Call for volunteers

In order to cope with the remarkable amount of organizational work we call for volunteers to help us to organize the meeting. Specifically:

  • spread emails and announcements
  • run the IDCC-2 website
  • moderate the IDCC-2 web forum
  • edit and prepare the abstract book and publish conference proceedings
  • deal with all unexpected issues
If you are able to help please email to cut.conference@octonus.ch with subject 'Volunteers'

Initial interest

To assist us establish likely conference attendance please indicate the number of presenters or attendees in your group?

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Please send the PDF announcement to anyone who may be interested, from either inside your company or externally. With their permission, they will be added to our mailing list.

There is a Summary of the First International Diamond Cut Conference (Moscow,2004). Brief information about the IDCC-1 is also available at http://www.cutstudy.com/conference/


 

The IDCC-2 Organizing Committee:

Garry Holloway, Ideal-Scope, Melbourne, Australia

Sergey Sivovolenko, OctoNus, Finland

Dr. Ivan Orlov, Octonus Suisse, Lausanne, Switzerland

Janak Mistry, Lexus, Surat, India

Dr Yuri Shelementiev, Russian Gemmological Center, Moscow, Russia