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Gaithersburg

The Future is Charged: U.S. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

March 29, 2022 - September 30, 2022

Please see the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Program on the NIST OWM website for any current updates on NIST standards, measurement services, and training...

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Discover NIST Education Resources!

March 27, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites learners of all ages to explore and discover a wide variety of Science, Technology...

ACMD Seminar: Discrete Optimization Techniques for Network and Data Analysis

Illya Hicks Computational and Applied Mathematics Department, Rice University Tuesday, April 26, 3:00-4:00 EDT (1:00-2:00 MDT) A video of...

Radio Access and Propagation Metrology Group

Wireless Systems Innovation and Performance Group

Collaborates with government, industry, and academia to design, evaluate, and standardize future wireless networks that are robust, interoperable, intelligent, and high-performing.

Ultraviolet Light Can Clean N95 Masks for Reuse Without Hindering Performance, NIST Study Shows

March 25, 2022

To combat COVID-19 amid supply shortages in 2020, health care facilities across the U.S. resorted to disinfecting personal protective equipment (PPE), such as...

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We're Back... OWM Welcomes Laboratory Metrology Students to Campus!

March 28, 2022

NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) resumed limited in-person laboratory metrology training at the Gaithersburg campus starting on January 31, 2022. We...

NIST-MSU STEM Symposium

Thu, Mar 24 2022, 9:00am - 2:30pm EDT

The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Symposium is a virtual forum to strengthen ties between NIST

OWM Welcomes New Associate, María Peñahora Cañeque Simón

María received her master’s degree in electrical engineering from Pontificia Comillas University ICAI, in Madrid, Spain in 2012. After three...

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Celebrate World Metrology Day on May 20

March 26, 2022

“World Metrology Day is an annual celebration of the signature of the Meter Convention on 20 May 1875 by representatives of seventeen nations. The Convention...

ITL Speakers Bureau: James Lyle

Title of Talk: OVERVIEW OF DIGITAL FORENSICS ABSTRACT: Following A Tasty Case Natasha Romanov (former secret agent) has retired and opened a...

Setting the Standards: Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Technical Standards

March 17, 2022

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James K. Olthoff

Introduction Chairwoman Stevens, Ranking Member Feenstra, and members of the Subcommittee, I am Dr. James Olthoff, Performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and...

Not Letting It Slip By: NIST Discovery Could Increase Accuracy in Measuring Blood Flow for Cancer Diagnosis, Other Applications

March 22, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a potential source of error when using acoustic waves to measure the...

George Awad

Title of Talk: TRECVID - EVALUATING COMPUTER VISION TASKS USING REAL-WORLD DATASETS ABSTRACT: Image and video data continues to gain...

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NIST Seeks Comments on Draft AI Risk Management Framework, Offers Guidance on AI Bias

March 17, 2022

Seeking to promote the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and systems that are trustworthy and responsible, NIST today released...

Updates and Reports Relating to Feb. 3, 2021, Alert at NIST’s Research Reactor

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reports NRC Special Inspection Report, March 16, 2022 NRC Interim Special Inspection Report, April 14, 2021...

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Releases Special Inspection Report on 2021 Alert at the NIST Research Reactor

March 16, 2022

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released a final report of its special inspection of the Feb. 3, 2021, alert at the National...

Cancer

SUMMARY Recent science and technology advances have led to the development of breakthrough cancer diagnostics and therapies, such as...

Revamped Design Could Take Powerful Biological Computers From the Test Tube to the Cell

March 23, 2022

Tiny biological computers made of DNA could revolutionize the way we diagnose and treat a slew of diseases, once the technology is fully fleshed out. However, a...

NIST AI Measurement and Evaluation Projects

Biometrics Biometrics are human measurements that can be used to identify a person for a variety of applications, e.g., to grant access to...

AI Metrology Colloquia Series

As a follow-on to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness ( link...

5813 Weights and Measures Inspections - Evidence, Search and Seizure, and Due Process

Wed, Apr 20 2022, 11:00am - 1:30pm EDT

This 2.5 hour webinar will provide an overview on how the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Laws, and Court

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Ran Tao Recognized as a 2022 PMSE Young Investigator by ACS

Ran Tao was recently recognized as a 2022 PMSE Young Investigator by the Polymer Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society and will be one of twenty one researchers who will present at the PMSE Young Investigator Symposium...

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There’s More to AI Bias Than Biased Data, NIST Report Highlights

March 16, 2022

As a step toward improving our ability to identify and manage the harmful effects of bias in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, researchers at the National...

Iris Experts Group (IEG) Meeting 2022

Thu, Jun 23 2022, 8:00am - 3:00pm EDT

The Iris Experts Group (IEG) will hold their annual meeting on Thursday June 23, 2022. The meeting will be virtual using

National Legal Metrology Working Groups

NIST OWM leads and manages a series of national legal metrology and weights and measures working groups, including three U.S. National Work...

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A Brief History of OWM

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is proud to recognize 190 years of weights and measures standards and services to the U.S...

nSoft 10 m SANS Detector Upgrade

The 10 m SANS is the flagship instrument of the nSoft consortium, enabling measurement technique development and rapid access for industrial...

5812 Volume Metrology Seminar

Mon, Aug 29 - Fri, Sep 2 2022

The 5-day OWM Volume Metrology Seminar is designed to enable metrologists to apply fundamental measurement concepts to

ACMD Seminar: Standards for model evaluation applied to systems pharmacology models: Focus on sensitivity analysis

Helen Moore Laboratory for Systems Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 3:00 PM EDT (1:00 PM MDT) A...

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