Want the inside scoop on federal funding for nanotechnology? Ever wonder just what measurements mean to industry? Or perhaps you’d like to know more about NIST—what it does, and how.
The answers to these and many other questions will be provided during this November’s three-day 2005 Industrial Physics Forum (http://www.aip.org/ipf), a must-attend if you’re interested in the application of physics to industry. Other highlights of the forum include talks on the newest physics advances, sessions on the latest developments in measurement science, and a tour of NIST research labs.
This year the annual forum, which is presented by the American Institute of Physics and sponsored by AIP Corporate Associates and NIST, is slated for Sunday, 6 November, through Tuesday, 8 November, at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Ricking things off on 6 November is “The Public Case for Science: The Scientist as Citizen.” This pre-conference workshop addresses the...