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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, A NEW SHOWCASE OF NIST INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IS COMING SOON

January 24, 2023

Just three months ago, NIST’s Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) hosted a virtual program that brought together scientific and technological business...

FOREST

The NIST Headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD also provides a convenient testbed to evaluate the current state of knowledge relating optical remote sensing to

Karen K. Reczek Honored with 2022 ASTM Forensic Sciences Award

The ASTM International E30 committee confers this award in recognition of continuous and outstanding contributions to the development of standards for E30 on forensic sciences and the forensic science industry.

Assessing the Fineness of Construction Materials

January 20, 2023

Portland cement powder is characterized by particle size for use in calibrating instruments, measuring fineness characteristics of portland cement, and other...

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Building on a successful first-year Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives (SERI) project NIST and Autonomous Vehicles (see 2022 NIST AV workshop and

Announcements

ICRA 2025 The RGMC: manufacturing track will not be participating at ICRA2025 this year. Please follow this link for details on the other...

Operating Envelope Specification supports automated driving safety measurement, key to testing and public acceptance of automated vehicles

Automated Vehicles and AV Communications

Automated vehicles (AVs) will significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. Advances in communications capabilities – for

ACMD Seminar: Monotone Generative Modeling via a Gromov-Monge Embedding

Wonjun Lee NIST-IMA Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, 1...

Artifacts, Begone! NIST Improves Its Flagship Device for Measuring Mass

January 18, 2023

In a brightly lit subterranean lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sits a room-sized electromechanical machine called the NIST-4...

Previous Schools

2022 Summer School on Methods and Application of Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Neutron Reflectivity. 2022 Virtual School on Methods and...

Agenda/Schedule

Schedule

Course Materials

EXPERIMENT HANDOUTS SANS: SANS1 SANS-Lipids Data for the Experiment Slides: SANS Principles and Practices SANS2 USANS-Colloids Data for the...

Housing and Transportation

2022 CHRNS School Housing Information NIST offers some useful visitor information. Lodging: We have reserved a block of rooms, at the NIST...

Financial Assistance

For Those Receiving Financial Assistance All receipts, except for food, are required for reimbursement. Approval for financial assistance...

Application

Follow the link below to apply to the 28th NCNR/CHRNS School on the Fundamentals of Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Neutron Reflectivity...

CHRNS Summer School on Neutron Scattering

October 17-21, 2022 The deadline for submitting applications is midnight on August 29, 2022. The 28 th Center for High Resolution Neutron...

2022 CHRNS Summer School on Methods and Application of Small Angle Scattering and Neutron Reflectometry

October 17-21, 2022 The deadline for submitting applications is midnight on August 29, 2022. The 28 th Center for High Resolution Neutron...

SRM 3461: An Accurate and Precise Force Calibration Artifact

January 18, 2023

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a popular technique for interrogating surfaces on the micro and nano scales. The most common use for AFM is imaging; however...

SRM 915c Calcium Carbonate Mass Fraction Standard

January 18, 2023

This standard reference material from NIST will help calibrate procedures for calcium determinations used in clinical analysis and for routine critical...

ACMD Seminar: Spatial heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment: The impact of immune cells

Navid Mohammad Mirzaei Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Friday...

ACMD Seminar: Isogeometric Analysis: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Current Research Thrusts

John Evans Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado - Boulder Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 1:00-2:00 PM MT...

Research and Projects

The projects and research section provides links for all our major projects in the following areas: VVSG TGDC Voting Systems Test Lab (VSTL)...

NIST Innovative Technology Showcase #2

Mon, Mar 13 2023, 3:00 - 4:30pm EDT

The NIST Technology Partnership Office (TPO) oversees the technology transfer processes that NIST researchers use to

TAC2022

Fri, Feb 3 2023

The Text Analysis Conference (TAC) is an annual community evaluation workshop for natural language processing tasks

2021-2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework (Health Care)

Proven Leadership and Management Practices for High Performance Purchase your copy today. This leadership and performance management...

2021-2022 Baldrige Excellence Framework (Education)

Proven Leadership and Management Practices for High Performance Purchase your copy today. This leadership and performance management...

Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Program: Standards, Services, and Training

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) have developed an Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) Program

EVSE Fast Charging Network: Challenges for Calibration and Traceability

January 7, 2023

Updated: 03/31/23 Charging Your Electric Car: Ensuring Accuracy for EVSEs with Traceable Transfer Reference Meters Owners of electric vehicles are coming to...

NIST Office of Weights and Measures – National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program Partnership: New Faces and New Opportunities

January 5, 2023

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) has long coordinated the accreditation of the State legal metrology laboratories through the OWM Recognition...

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a systematic approach to quantify risks associated with the operation of an engineering process. QRA is an essential tool to

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