GIA Symposium

[Serg]

Hi,
is anybody going to GIA symposium?

 

[YoLaL]

Hw I wish...

 

[OoohShiny]

Calling all Californians!

https://gia.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/gia-symposium-2018/gia-symposium/Accommodation

 

[LightBright]

I’d be curious to see if any PSers are going! Does this count in any way towards certification?

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

The last one I went to I found myself outnumbered in a bar debate about something:
GeoChemists 15 to 1 GeoPhysicist and me (Geologist and ameuter physicist).
The industry is of course full of GC's because of the need to identify gem materials and synthetics. But it hampered GIA's cut grading efforts enormously for a decade.

 

[Diamond_Hawk]

The last one I went to I found myself outnumbered in a bar debate about something:
GeoChemists 15 to 1 GeoPhysicist and me (Geologist and ameuter physicist).
The industry is of course full of GC's because of the need to identify gem materials and synthetics. But it hampered GIA's cut grading efforts enormously for a decade.

Even outnumbered so substantially, I have a feeling you held your own, just fine. What year was it you attended the GIA symposium?

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Even outnumbered so substantially, I have a feeling you held your own, just fine. What year was it you attended the GIA symposium?

First was 1999 which was great, then mid noughties was good, with Sergey and others, and last I think was 2011 and it was a huge disappointment.

 

[Serg]

The last one I went to I found myself outnumbered in a bar debate about something:
GeoChemists 15 to 1 GeoPhysicist and me (Geologist and ameuter physicist).
The industry is of course full of GC's because of the need to identify gem materials and synthetics. But it hampered GIA's cut grading efforts enormously for a decade.

Hi Garry,
in 2018 year it looks even worse.
My lecture about Diamond impression had been include in CVD section.
GIA symposium has not now any section about diamond cut beauty .
But if I do not come, You do not come, other cut researchers do not come then it will 16:0.

 

[Diamond_Hawk]

First was 1999 which was great, then mid noughties was good, with Sergey and others, and last I think was 2011 and it was a huge disappointment.

As I suspected. You first held forth 7 years prior to GIA deciding they needed to add a cut grade, reinforced by your discussions in, say... ‘05? And, all realized they were no match for you in 2011 and had, in fact, simply acknowledged your superior position on the issue.

I, of course, have no way to back up the above assertion, but it is fun to consider