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Gaithersburg

Quantum Matters in Material Sciences (QMMS)

Wed, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 20 2025

As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is organizing the 4 th

TMMC: Reference Adsorption Isotherms for N2/CO2 Mixtures in Metal-organic Frameworks

Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo (TMMC) simulations of binary mixtures of N 2 and CO2 [1-10] were performed at T = 300 K and 350 K in the ZIF-8...

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Instruments

Analytical Electron Microscope The Titan 80-300 is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) equipped with spectroscopic detectors to allow...

New Smoke Alarms Are Better at Detecting Fires but Still Beep for Bacon

September 18, 2024

NIST research in a kitchen fire laboratory shows that updated smoke detectors still produce nuisance alarms during cooking.

Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program: NIST Publishes SP 800-50r1

September 12, 2024

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-50r1 (Revision 1), Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program, provides updated guidance for developing and

Finding 500,000: Addressing America’s Cybersecurity Workforce Gap

June 26, 2024

Referenced Speaker

Rodney Petersen

The purpose of the hearing was to examine ways in which the federal government is addressing America’s cybersecurity workforce gap.

Named Finalist in 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists - Alexey Gorshkov

Advanced the design of large interacting quantum systems through pioneering research at the intersection of quantum physics and information

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NIST’s Long Phan and Marc Levitan Receive Service to America Medal

September 10, 2024

The award recognizes their efforts to develop standards and building codes to make structures resistant to tornadoes.

TIME Recognizes Elizabeth Kelly as one of the 100 most influential people in AI

On September 5, 2024, TIME included Elizabeth Kelly, director of the United States Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, on its list of

Benchmark Results for Mixtures of TraPPE Molecules

The purpose of these pages is to provide some explicit results from Monte Carlo simulations for mixtures of TraPPE molecules [1,2]. It is...

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New Report Highlights Economic Value of Neutron Science to U.S. Industry

September 5, 2024

Research using neutron beams provides an economic return far larger than the cost of building and operating neutron facilities, according to an economic impact

NIST MEP Center State Competition FY2025

Back to Closed Federal Funding Opportunities UPDATE: This opportunity has closed. Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) The NIST Hollings...

2053 Advanced Mass Seminar

Mon, Jul 28 - Thu, Aug 7 2025

The 9-day, hands-on Advanced Mass calibration seminar focuses on the comprehension and application of the advanced mass

Five GreenNISTers Recognized as Part of the Department of Commerce's 2024 Class of Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental (SEE) Ambassadors

The Department of Commerce Office of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Programs (OSEEP) recently announced its 2024 Class of

NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Official Results

Date of Release: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 Version 3 Introduction The NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-05) was part of an ongoing series...

ACMD Seminar: Many-body physics in superconducting devices

Stephen Sorokanich NIST ITL, Applied and Computational Mathematics Div. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) A video...

Tiny New Lasers Fill a Long-Standing Gap in the Rainbow of Visible-Light Colors, Opening New Applications

August 28, 2024

Researchers have created orange, yellow and green lasers tiny enough to fit on a chip.

Software

GSAS_USE (Bayesian Statistics Approach to Accounting for Unknown Systematic Errors) GSAS_USE addresses the effects of systematic errors in...

Standard Reference Data

Inorganic Phase Equilibrium Data Compile and evaluate phase equilibrium data for NIST Standard Reference Database 31 (Phase Equilibria...

Advanced Manufacturing

Structural Metrology of Advanced Manufacturing Processes Advanced manufacturing processes create novel materials and components with...

Selective Gas Separation

Multiscale Structure and Dynamics in Advanced Technological Materials This project develops and applies metrologies and standards for...

Semiconductors

Strain Measurement for Semiconductor Devices and Packages Mechanical strain impacts the performance of semiconductor devices. Manufacturing...

NIST 2006 Machine Translation Evaluation Official Results

Date of Updated Release: Tuesday, November 1, 2006, version 4 The NIST 2006 Machine Translation Evaluation (MT-06) was part of an ongoing...

H5 Influenza Positive Controls

A synthetic RNA material based on the H5N1 avian influenza has been developed in collaboration with the US CDC. Currently, this material is available as a

NIST 2008 Open Machine Translation Evaluation - (MT08)

Official Evaluation Results Date of release: Fri Jun 06, 2008 Version: mt08_official_release_v0 The NIST 2008 Machine Translation Evaluation...

Boonserm Kulvatunyou and Hakju Oh Receive the AgGateway President’s Award

Outstanding leadership and innovation, resulting in cutting-edge tool development and deployment that advances semantic interoperability in

Evan Wallace Receives the AgGateway President’s Award

Evan Wallace is an electronic engineer in the Systems Engineering Group and has been engaged with AgGateway since the days of the CART

Lisa Ng Receives the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award salutes members of any grade who have served the Society faithfully and with distinction and who have given