Adelaide, Australia - Tuesday 17 August 2010


Adelaide, Australia -- Tangent Link’s Night Vision and Photonic Technology event will bring together academics, scientists, manufacturers and equipment suppliers to discuss and showcase the latest developments and technologies in this field.

This event will create a dynamic environment for effective business networking and information sharing.

You should participate in this event because...

- The Australian Government has committed approx AU$30bn to the defence budget over the next 10 years to be spent on new technologies and equipment.

- They are looking for cost effective solutions in Night Vision technologies and equipment.

- This event is being supported by key Government defence stakeholders from South Australia and you will have the opportunity to meet with them.

The event will be a one day conference with presentations from regional and global experts, government bodies and relevant associations.

There will be a supporting exhibition and all networking breaks and lunch will be served in the exhibition hall to ensure maximum possible networking opportunities for those attending this important event.

The conference themes will focus on the advancement of Night Vision and Photonics Technology within military, research and commercial organisations.


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Virtual Classroom for ASTM Members



W. Conshocken PA, USA -- ASTM International is pleased to offer a series of free one-hour online training workshops.
There are several different training sessions offered to assist members, including Balloting & Handling Negative Votes, New Member Orientation, Developing & Revising a Standard, Work Item Collaboration Area Training as well as several others.

List of upcoming sessions:

Balloting & Handling Negative Votes Training Workshop

* Tuesday, June 1 at 2 pm EDT
* Wednesday, July 21 at 2 pm EDT
* Wednesday, October 6 at 2 pm EDT


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Observational Frontiers of Astronomy for the New Decade: 27 June - 2 July 2010 - San Diego California, USA

Registration discount deadline: 11 June 2010

Plan to attend the most prestigious event for experts working on telescopes and the technologies and instrumentation that enable their powerful discoveries.

The 2010 meeting will focus on the following areas:

Telescopes and Systems
• Space Telescopes and Instrumentation covering Gamma Ray, UV, Optical, IR and Millimeter Wave
• Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes
• Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation
• Optical and IR Interferometry
• Adaptive Optics Systems
• Observatory Operations
• Systems Engineering

Technology Advancements
• Systems Engineering
• Modern Technologies
• Advanced Software and Control
• Detectors


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Wireless Sensor Networks - the Next Ten Years

Dublin, Ireland -- Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), self organising, self healing networks of small "nodes", have huge potential across industrial, military and other many other sectors. While appreciable sales have now been established, major progress depends on standards and achieving twenty year life.

The new IDTechEx report "Wireless Sensor Networks 2010-2020" draws lessons from the many successful installations in the last year.

It looks at the complex standards scene with particular focus on WirelessHART that is key to applications in the process industries in the short and medium term and it shows how the alternative ISA 100.11a has some way to go but may prove useful over a wider field of application and eventually subsume WirelessHART.

It examines recent successes of the various backers of ZigBee-related solutions, who is behind the alternatives and how they see the future.

The challenge of excessive power consumption of these nodes, that have to act as both tags and readers, is addressed. For example, progress has been good in getting the electronics to consume less electricity, by both improved signaling protocols and improved circuitry.


Read full article: 'Wireless Sensor Networks Market Report'

18-22 July 2010 - Philadelphia Convention Center -Philadelphia PA, USA

College Park MD, USA -- The 52nd annual Meeting of the American Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM) will be held at the Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia PA during the period OF July 18th to 22nd, 2010.

Registration is now open NOW OPEN and the EARLY Registration Deadline is June 10, 2010 (11:59 PM EDT). The last day to Register for Self Assessment Modules (SAMs) is July 8, 2010 (11:59 PM EDT)

Completion of two Self Assessment Modules (SAMs) per year is a requirement for the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process as defined by the American Board of Radiology (ABR).

AAPM program organizers have identified sessions in Diagnostic, Nuclear Medicine and Therapy Physics to be offered with audience response technology at the annual meeting in 2010.


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Fareham, UK & Ashland VA, USA -- A new Porvair Filtration Group brochure describes the wide range of advanced material technologies that they can bring to the powder handling industry. The fluidization of powders, using compressed air through a porous media to make them flow like liquids, is a process used in many industries.

Applications for powder fluidization are widespread in the pharmaceutical, food, beverage and construction to move powders such as drugs, flour, plastics and cement, as well as to efficiently empty silos, road and rail tankers.

Porvair Filtration Group, a leading filtration company with considerable experience in the powder handling industry, offers an extensive range of high performance materials enabling it to provide an optimal solution to solve most fluidization applications.


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The DCMAS (Developing Countries in Metrology, Accreditation and Standardization) Network is a group of representatives from specialized international organizations promoting and implementing MAS (Metrology, Standardization and Conformity Assessment) activities in developing countries.

The members are:

• BIPM (International Bureau of Weights and Measures)
• IAF (International Accreditation Forum)
• IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)
• ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation)
• ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
• ITC (International Trade Centre)
• ITU-T (Telecommunication standardization sector of International   Telecommunication Union)
• OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology)
• UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)
• UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)

The Network was set up so that the different organizations operating at an international level can work together on mutually agreed projects, while knowing what activities are being undertaken by the others.

There are three different components: metrology, accreditation and standardization. Being part of the Network enables them to share knowledge and experience as well as participate in each other's programmes and initiatives.

Said Françoise Rauser, of the IEC Secretariat, "Meeting together in the DCMAS gives us the opportunity to network, exchange information with the other organizations on what they're doing in developing countries and get a better understanding of their programmes."


Read full article: 'DCMAS Network holds its 10th annual meeting at IEC'

8th June - Manchester UK --- 10th June - London UK

Manchester, UK -- Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce that it is hosting two free-of-charge summer symposia to present the latest instrumentation and application developments in chromatography, bulk elemental analysis, life sciences mass spectrometry, trace elemental analysis and molecular spectroscopy.

The educational symposia will include presentations from customers and guest speakers.

The symposia will be held in:

* Manchester, UK on Tuesday 8th June, 2010, Palace Hotel
* London, UK on Thursday 10th June, 2010, Princeton QEIICC

Sessions include:

Plenary Sessions

* Latest high level update on how new developments from Thermo Fisher Scientific can help you

Multiple parallel sessions

* Chromatography
* Elemental Analysis*
* Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry
* Molecular Spectroscopy


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June 2-3, 2010 -- Scripps Seaside Forum - La Jolla CA USA



Join Prominent Experts and Help Identify Critical Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Requirements for a National GHG Emissions Program

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring a workshop on June 2 and 3 to discuss technical barriers to our ability to accurately measure, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions, a critical issue in addressing a major factor in climate change.

The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Quantification and Verification Strategies Workshop, to be held at Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla, Calif., aims to create a dialog among scientific and industrial experts concerning the best ways to measure, report and verify greenhouse gas emissions from varied sources both in local areas and globally.

These insights will form the basis for a consensus document, which will outline the key recommendations for quantifying emissions and verification strategies for the future.


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WYATT TECHNOLOGY TO HOST ILSC IN SANTA BARBARA CA


SANTA BARBARA CA, USA - - Wyatt Technology, has announced it will host its 21st Annual International Light Scattering Colloquium (ILSC) October 18-19, 2010 at the exclusive Four Seasons Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara, California.

The event will welcome an array of high-profile Wyatt Technology light scattering customers including Nobel Prize winner, Professor Roger Yonchien Tsien.

To complement the 21st annual ILSC, Wyatt Technology will also be hosting an Eclipse Field Flow Fractionation (FFF)-MALS Focus Meeting on October 20 2010.

Over the past 21 years, the ILSC has secured its status as the pre-eminent meeting for light scattering (LS) for both static and dynamic LS users.

Introduced by Wyatt Technology to provide its new and existing customers from around the world with the opportunity to gather to discuss their light scattering experiences, the colloquium has grown to become a world-leading event for all industry professionals.


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