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Gaithersburg

Save the Date: Forensics@NIST 2014 to take place Dec. 3-4

August 13, 2014

Registration: No Charge Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md. NIST, known for advancing measurement science, standards and...

It's a Match: NIST and Prince George's County Crime Lab Team Up on Ballistics Research

August 11, 2014

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are working to improve ballistics matching methods with assistance from the Prince George's...

NIST 'Global City Teams Challenge' to Create Smart Cities

August 5, 2014

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several partners today are kicking off the year-long Global City...

Draining Test Measures and Provers

Wed, Aug 27 2014

This 1 hour webinar will reinforce the concepts of properly draining test measures and provers. These concepts must be

Emergent Optical Phenomena in Disordered Nanoparticles: Quadrupole Enhanced Raman Scattering (QERS) and Strong Optical Magnetic Plasmons

Mon, Aug 18 2014

The rule of thumb in the design of plasmonic nano-antennae and waveguides is to fabricate, or to synthesize

Electrostatics at the Membrane/Peptide Interface: Utilizing pH Sensitive Spin Labels to Probe the Bilayer Interior

Wed, Aug 13 2014

Polarity, electric potentials, and hydration are the major physico-chemical characteristics of lipid membranes that

An Electron Spin Resonance Analysis of Metal Histidine Coordination In Amyloid-beta

Mon, Aug 4 2014

In this work Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is used to gain more insight into less explored aspects of Cu(II

High-Density Micro Electrodes for Stable Interfaces with Brain and Peripheral Nervous System

Wed, Jul 30 2014

Multielectrode arrays are an essential tool in experimental and clinical neuroscience, yet current designs are severely

Physics and Applications of Plasmonic Metamaterials: From Terahertz to the Ultraviolet

Mon, Jul 28 2014

The field of plasmonics and metamaterials deals with the interaction of light with metallic or metallo-dielectric

Global City Teams Challenge Kick-Off

Mon, Sep 29 - Tue, Sep 30 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several partners will kick off a year-long Global City

Cybersecurity for Direct Digital Manufacturing Symposium

Tue, Feb 3 2015

Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) involves fabricating physical objects from a data file using computer-controlled

Mass Metrology Seminar

Mon, Mar 16 - Fri, Mar 27 2015

The Mass Metrology Seminar is a two-week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70

MEP Launches Competition to Fund Manufacturing Centers in 10 States

August 4, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today opened a competition to award new cooperative funding agreements for its Hollings Manufacturing...

Updated NIST Guide Provides Computer Security Assessment Procedures for Core Security Controls

August 1, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft update of its primary guide to assessing the security and...

It's a Dynamic World, Now NIST Can Help You Measure Its Changes

August 1, 2014

Crash-test dummies, yarn-spinning machines and steel girders in bridges. What do they have in common? Look inside them all and you find transducers, devices...

6th Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

Wed, Oct 29 - Thu, Oct 30 2014

Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, directed NIST towork with stakeholders to

Registration Opens for the Next Cybersecurity Framework Workshop

July 31, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a workshop on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Oct. 29 and...

NIST Announces New Competition for Advanced Manufacturing Planning Awards

July 30, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for planning awards to support industry-driven consortia in...

Readying Your Community to Deal with Disaster

July 29, 2014

This week, experts are meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Hoboken to discuss how communities can prepare themselves to minimize the impacts of...

NIST, HHS Sponsor 7th Annual Conference on Healthcare Information Security

July 29, 2014

The seventh annual "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security" conference will be held September 23-24, 2014, in Washington, D...

Latest NIST Mass Spectral Library: Expanded Coverage, Features

July 29, 2014

The world's most widely used and trusted resource for identifying mass spectra, the "fingerprints" of molecules, has undergone a major expansion, according to...

2nd Privacy Engineering Workshop

Mon, Sep 15 - Tue, Sep 16 2014

Privacy is a challenging subject that spans a number of domains, including law, policy and technology. Notwithstanding

Data Science

The NIST Information Access Division (IAD) initiated a Data Science Research Program (DSRP) aimed to advance the measurement science for big data and data

NIST/CHiMaD: Workshop on Coarse-Grained Modeling of Polymers and Soft Materials for the Materials Genome Initiative

Wed, Aug 6 - Thu, Aug 7 2014

The grand challenge of the Materials Genome Initiative is the development of a national infrastructure for data sharing

Model-Based Enterprise Summit 2014

Tue, Dec 16 - Thu, Dec 18 2014

The purpose of the Summit is to identify challenges, research, implementation issues, and lessons learned in

Enhanced NIST Instrument Enables High-speed Chemical Imaging of Tissues

July 22, 2014

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the Cleveland Clinic, has demonstrated a dramatically improved...

NIST Shows Ultrasonically Propelled Nanorods Spin Dizzyingly Fast

July 21, 2014

Vibrate a solution of rod-shaped metal nanoparticles in water with ultrasound and they'll spin around their long axes like tiny drill bits. Why? No one yet...

High Throughput Second Order Nonlinear Optical Imaging and High Frame-Rate Lissajous Scanned Imaging

Mon, Jul 28 2014

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are typically required to be sufficiently hydrophobic to pass through lipid

Fill 'er Up: NIST Develops Prototype Meter Test for Hydrogen Refueling Stations

July 21, 2014

To support the fair sale of gaseous hydrogen as a vehicle fuel, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a...

Tunneling Anisotropic Magneto-Seebeck Effect

Tue, Jan 14 2014

Due to their ubiquitous presence in spinning hard-drive technologies and growing potential as commercially viable memory

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