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bragg grating

Hooked on Photonics? Math to the Rescue

Photonic thermometers – which measure temperature using light – have been around in optical fiber form for decades. These devices, called fiber Bragg gratings

5841 Mass Metrology Seminar

Mon, Apr 10 - Fri, Apr 21 2023
The Mass Metrology Seminar is a two-week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70
5 green boxes around a blue circle with arrows pointing clockwise from box to box. Inside the boxes starting at the top and going clockwise are the words in white: Research & Development; New Test, Method, Instrument; Developmental Validation; Internal Verification; Routine Use. And in the blue circle in white it reads: RMs & Interlabs

Quality Assurance

Goal: To explore laboratory challenges and improve laboratory comparability, providing insight into method comparability and improved...
The top box says current workflow below is a picture of a sample bag with the words hair sample and an arrow then to a box with test tubes and the words protein extraction under them. An arrow from that photo with blue lines on paper showing the electrophoresis results of the separated proteins and the words SDS-Page. An arrow from SDS-Page points to a photo of a liquid chromatography mass spec machine and the letters under the photo LC-MS/MS. From here an arrow points up to a picture of a graph of results

Trace

Goal: To develop measurement characterization tools, methods, and algorithms to improve the accurate identification and analysis of small...
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Forensic Genetics

Goal: To support accuracy and reliability in the forensic DNA typing community through the production of reference materials...
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Firearms and Toolmarks

Goal: To build a scientific infrastructure for objective forensic firearm and toolmark analysis with a rigorous evaluation of uncertainty to...
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Drugs and Toxicology

Goal: To both develop and facilitate the implementation of scientifically valid, robust measurement tools for the chemical characterization...
Digitalization of modern business process and using robots, online technology, Internet of thing

Digital and Multimedia Evidence

Goal: to promote efficient and effective forensic examinations of digital and multimedia evidence by addressing community challenges and...
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Biometrics

Goal: To explore the intersection of biometric forensic science technologies and practitioners by creating research databases, expanding...
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