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Primary Contact For more information about the voting activities at NIST, please contact us at voting [at] nist.gov (voting[at]nist[dot]gov). For Members of the Media For...

Call For Proposals

The deadline for new and continuation proposals is January 28. 2010. Successful proposals will be allocated instrument time from April through October 2010...

Fundamental Constants Data Center

The Fundamental Constants Data Center is focused on physics relevant to the determination of values of the fundamental constants of physics and chemistry.

Radioactivity Group

The Radioactivity Group's mission is to develop, maintain, and disseminate radioactivity standards, develop and apply radioactivity measurement techniques, and engage in research to meet the requirements for new standards.

Neutron Physics Group

The Neutron Physics group maintains and supports the nation's premier fundamental neutron physics user facilities. The group has developed the nation's only high-resolution neutron imaging user facility (NIF) for fuel cell research. We maintain, and disseminate measurement standards through both

Dosimetry Group

The Dosimetry Group advances the measurement of quantities important in the radiological sciences through programs in the dosimetry of x-rays, gamma-rays, electrons, and other charged particles.

Laser Cooling and Trapping Group

We use ultracold gases and other atomic systems to study quantum phenomena including many-body physics, superfluidity, and quantum information.

Atom Scale Device Group

Develops, measures, understands and exploits quantum and electronic devices and sensors at the interface between atomic and nanoscale solid-state systems. Systems under study include dopant-based and nanofabricated Si devices for quantum technologies, quantum simulation, quantum sensing and charge

Atomic Spectroscopy Group

The mission of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group is to measure, calculate, critically compile, and disseminate reference data on atomic properties and fundamental constants in support of basic research, commercial development, and national priorities.

Security Aspects of Electronic Voting

The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 was passed by Congress to encourage the upgrade of voting equipment across the United States. HAVA established the

E-Authentication

Electronic Authentication is the process of establishing confidence in user identities that are presented in online environments. Application developers are

Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines

Users of the former "Crypto Toolkit" can now find that content under this project. It includes cryptographic primitives, algorithms and schemes are described in
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