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DAY 1: 6 JUNE 2011
Measurement Uncertainty and Traceability

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08:00-9:00	Registration
09:00-9:20	Welcome and Opening
Session: Measurement Uncertainty Chair: M. Filomena Camões
09:20-09:50	Alex Williams - Measurement uncertainty - a Résumé
09:50-10:20	Steve Ellison - The new draft Guide: a summary of structure and changes
10:20-10:50	Coffee Break
Session: Practical evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty Chair: Steve Ellison
10:50-11:20	Jane Weitzel - Use of Measurement Uncertainty in Testing a Drug Substance
11:20-11:40	Sandra Calisto - Validation of measurement uncertainty: total hardness in drinking and natural waters as a case study
11:40-12:00	Maria Trancoso - Indoor air quality: Measurement uncertainty as a tool for the anion - cation balance acceptance criteria
12:00-12:20	Byungjoo Kim - Uncertainty evaluation model for a practical approach in the certification of CRM: Performing certification and homogeneity test simultaneously
12:20-12:40	Wesley Johnson - The use of measurement uncertainty in an     operating mine
12:40-13:00	Ilya Kuselman - Metrologically-related out-of-specification test results
13:00-14:00	Lunch
Session: Compliance and Traceability Chair: Alex Williams
14:00-14:30	Bertil Magnusson - Uncertainty and compliance assessment
14:30-15:00	Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva - Uncertainty and metrological   traceability
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	Breakouts in parallel sessions
Session A: Compliance Chair: Bertil Magnusson
	Wilfried Hinrichs - A probabilistic approach to assessing the compliance of concrete regarding the content of dissolved chloride in its components
Session B: Traceability Chair: Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva
	Francesca Rolle - Metrological traceability for benzo[a]pyrene quantification in airborne particulate matter
17:00-17:30	Feedback from Breakouts
19:30	DINNER “O Forcado”

 

DAY 2: 7 JUNE 2011
Numerical approaches, Software evaluation and Future directions

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Session: Numerical methods Chair: Bertil Magnusson
09:00-9:30	Steve Ellison - Monte Carlo evaluation, Kragten and Numerical derivative methods
09:30-10:00	Matthias Roesslein - GUM/Supplement 1 - Numerical implementation
10:00-12:00	Poster Session including Coffee break
12:00-13:00	Lunch
Session: Numerical methods continued Chair: Maire Walsh
13:00-13:15	Introduction to breakouts
13:15-14:30	Breakouts in parallel sessions
Session C: Numerical methods Chair: Matthias Roesslein
	Pedro A. S. Salgueiro - Metrological assessment of internal standard technique for quality control of GC-MS determinations for arson detection
Session D: Uncertainty and detection limits Chair: Steve Ellison
	Rudolf Schneider - Uncertainty in Measurement with Immunoassays
14:30-15:00	Coffee Break
Session: Future Directions Chair: Maire Walsh
15:00-15:30	Adriaan M.H. van der Veen - Revision of the Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement
15:30-15:50	Katy Klauenberg - Bayesian Uncertainty Analysis of an International ELISA Comparability Study
15:50-16:30	Closing Discussion

 

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