Paper proposal

The aims

• the evolution of measurement techniques and the impact for industry, R&D and society,

• the demonstration of the value of measurement as a tool for improvement in company,

• the participation in the development of innovative technologies.
  

The themes

• Control of Measurement, Analysis and Testing Processes

  measurement uncertainties, traceability, interlaboratory comparisons, calibration, verification, accreditation, training and qualification of staff, cost optimisation, certification, modelling and numerical methods, organisation of the metrology function, standardisation.

• Physical and Chemical Fields

  mass, force, flow, pressure, dimensional, electricity-magnetism, time-frequency, temperature, hygrometry, optics and photonics, chemical metrology, materials, ionising radiation, acoustics, gravimetry.

• Regulations, Legal Metrology, International Recognition
• New Metrology and new Application Sectors

  biotechnology, environment, nanotechnology, health and medicine, sensory metrology, expectation and perception.

Submission on a proforma (download) to be sent before January 15th 2011.

• Papers selected by a Scientific and Technical Committee

• Reply to authors no later than 30th January 2011

• Final papers due 15th July 2011