Topics of the conference
• The uniformity of measurements: international works, cooperation in the area of RMs.
• Reference materials in assuring the uniformity of measurement results.
• General academic and practice-based issues of RM development, release, selection and use.
• Activity of national services of reference materials in the CIS countries.
• Specifics of certification and production of RMs of various substances and materials:
- environmental objects;
- food and food additives;
- biological materials;
- pharmaceuticals;
- pure substances and semiconductors;
- pesticides, toxins;
- water and aqueous solutions;
- pure gases and gas mixtures;
- ceramic, glass, refractory and mineral fertilizers;
- polymers, dyers;
- fuel;
- radionuclides and stable isotopes;
- markers and indicators for qualitative analysis;
- explosives;
- drugs.
• Distribution and availability of RMs in various areas of economic activity:
- scientific research;
- nanotechnologies;
- energy and atomic industries;
- space industry;
- defense industry;
- clinical medicine and bioengineering;
- pharmaceutical industry, health protection;
- food industry, agriculture;
- environmental protection;
- natural resource use: search and mining;
- ferrous and non-ferrous industry;
- petroleum refining industry, gas and fuel industry;
- chemical industry;
- forensic chemistry, doping tests.
• Metrological traceability, commutativity, comparison of RMs.
• Experience of RMs use in:
- demonstration of calibration and measurement capabilities;
- verification and calibration of measurement instruments;
- validation and certification of measurement procedures;
- control of accuracy of measurement results;
- interlaboratory comparison tests, etc.
• Quality management system of RM producers and distributors.
• Reference laboratories: tasks and functions.
• New measurement instruments, methods (procedures) of measuring parameters for composition and properties of substances and materials.
• Skill upgrading of specialists in the area of RMs.
• The uniformity of measurements: international works, cooperation in the area of RMs.
• Reference materials in assuring the uniformity of measurement results.
• General academic and practice-based issues of RM development, release, selection and use.
• Activity of national services of reference materials in the CIS countries.
• Specifics of certification and production of RMs of various substances and materials:
- environmental objects;
- food and food additives;
- biological materials;
- pharmaceuticals;
- pure substances and semiconductors;
- pesticides, toxins;
- water and aqueous solutions;
- pure gases and gas mixtures;
- ceramic, glass, refractory and mineral fertilizers;
- polymers, dyers;
- fuel;
- radionuclides and stable isotopes;
- markers and indicators for qualitative analysis;
- explosives;
- drugs.
• Distribution and availability of RMs in various areas of economic activity:
- scientific research;
- nanotechnologies;
- energy and atomic industries;
- space industry;
- defense industry;
- clinical medicine and bioengineering;
- pharmaceutical industry, health protection;
- food industry, agriculture;
- environmental protection;
- natural resource use: search and mining;
- ferrous and non-ferrous industry;
- petroleum refining industry, gas and fuel industry;
- chemical industry;
- forensic chemistry, doping tests.
• Metrological traceability, commutativity, comparison of RMs.
• Experience of RMs use in:
- demonstration of calibration and measurement capabilities;
- verification and calibration of measurement instruments;
- validation and certification of measurement procedures;
- control of accuracy of measurement results;
- interlaboratory comparison tests, etc.
• Quality management system of RM producers and distributors.
• Reference laboratories: tasks and functions.
• New measurement instruments, methods (procedures) of measuring parameters for composition and properties of substances and materials.
• Skill upgrading of specialists in the area of RMs.
