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Invited Talks |
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Monday, Sept. 7th - 11:00 -12:00 Tilo Pfeifer "Terahertz based Imaging for Inspection and spectroscopic Analysis"
Tilo Pfeifer, born 1939, received his Dipl.-Ing. degree 1965 his Dr.-Ing. degree 1968 and his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) 1972 form the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. 1972 - 2004 he has been Professor and Director of WZL department “Metrology and Quality Management”, RWTH Aachen University and from 1980 - 2004 Director at the Fraunhofer-Institute of Production Technology IPT, Aachen. He is now Professor Emeritus at RWTH Aachen University. Still he teaches graduate courses in “Metrology for Microsystems” at several Universities (e.g. RWTH Aachen University; Tsinghua University, Beijing; State University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil). His research topics are Optical-/Laser-Metrology and Quality Management. Prof. Pfeifer received several awards e.g. Distinguished Service Award of IMEKO 1985, degree of Honory Doctor form Universidade Federal Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1989 and from University of Zaragoza, Spain 2003, Degree of Honory Professor from Tsinghua University, Beijing 1995 and from Jilian University, Hangzhou, China 2006, Herward-Opitz Gold Medal of Honour from the VDI association, Germany 2004. Since 1973 Prof. Pfeifer is member of the General Council of IMEKO. He is Academician of the International Academy of Quality (IAQ) and Academician of the International Academy of Production Engeneering(CIRP), member of the executive board of Federation for Quality (FQS), Germany and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the German Association for Quality (DGQ). Prof. Pfeifer has published some 500 scientific papers, generally on laser-/optical measurement, coordinate measuring technology and quality management, numerous conference proceedings, several books and patents.
Tuesday, Sept. 8th - 10:15 -11:00 Andrew Wallard "World Metrology - the next 10 years"
Andrew Wallard has been the Director of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sèvres, France since January 2004. He was awarded a first class honours degree in physics from St Andrews University, Scotland in 1968, and a PhD in 1972. He then worked as a laser physicist at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) until 1978. After that, he spent 12 years in various central Government positions, including the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, and the Department of Trade and Industry where he was a special advisor to various Ministers. He has broad experience of science and technology policy and also managed several industrial programmes of research support which were operated by the UK Government and the European Community. He specialised in University /industry collaboration. He returned to the NPL in 1990 as Deputy Director and, subsequently, the NPL's Chief Metrologist. From 2005, was a member of the International Committee for Weights and Measures(CIPM). Professor Wallard was subsequently elected as the Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). The BIPM co-ordinates world metrology and is an Inter-Governmental body under the Treaty of the Metre, supported by over 80 countries. Andrew Wallard is a Professor at the University of Wales and has been awarded several national and international honours for his contribution to measurement science and technology. He is a member of the Board of the National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI), the Scientific Academy of Turin, the Russian Academy of |Metrology, the UK's Physical Society, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist, a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist, and a life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Science. He has published some forty refereed scientific papers, generally on laser physics and metrology, numerous conference proceedings, and has contributed to various books on metrology.
Wednesday, Sept. 9th - 10:15 -11:00 João Jornada"Metrology Challenges for Biofuels"
João A. H. da Jornada has been the President of Inmetro (the Brazilian National Metrology Institute), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since December 2004, and Director for Scientific and Industrial Metrology from 2000 to 2004. He is Full Professor of Physics at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he received his PhD in Physics in 1979, with honour degree. He has been an active researcher in the fields of solid state physics, materials science, high-pressure physics and superhard materials, and has published some 90 papers in indexed international journals. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste, Italy). He was awarded the Grand Cross of National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil, the Aeronautic Order of Merit, the Order of Rio Branco, and the Award for Outstanding Researcher in the field of Physics and Astronomy, FAPERGS, 1998.
Thursday, Sept. 10th - 10:15 -11:00 John Webster "Challenges in medical measurements"
John G. Webster received the B.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA in 1953, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA in 1965 and 1967, respectively. He is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In the field of medical instrumentation he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in bioinstrumentation and design. He does research on improving electrodes for ablating liver to cure cancer. He does research on safety of electromuscular incapacitating devices. He does research on a miniature hot flash recorder. He is the editor of the most-used text in biomedical engineering: Medical instrumentation: application and design, Fourth Edition New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2009, and has developed 22 other books including the Encyclopedia of medical devices and instrumentation, Second Edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006 and 200 research papers. Dr. Webster is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Instrument Society of America, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and Institute of Physics. He has been a member of the IEEE-EMBS Administrative Committee and the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section. He is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-EMBS Career Achievement Award.
Friday, Sept. 11th - 10:15 -11:00 André Tavares"Space Metrology – a Cosmic Vision"
André T. N. Tavares, born in 1979 in Portugal, graduated in 2002 in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL-FCT), Portugal. Since then he has been working for the Testing Division of the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), of the European Space Agency (ESA), in The Netherlands. He began to perform mechanical design of Mechanical Ground Support Equipment for Testing in the ESTEC’s Engineering Services Section. He is now the technical responsible of the Metrology Laboratory of the same section, providing support in measurement applications, from concept to execution, to the ESTEC Test Centre and labs and to ESA projects, such as Galileo, MetOp, Herschel-Planck, Automated Transfer Vehicle, GOCE, Lisa-Pathfinder, AlphaBus, among others. He received an ESA Award Prize in 2006 for the alignment of the COROT Baffle, a space telescope successfully launched in end 2006.
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