13th IMEKO TC1-TC7 Joint Symposium
Without Measurement No Science, Without Science No Measurement

1-3 September 2010, City University London, UK
Supported by the IOP Instrument Science and Technology Group

The 13th IMEKO TC1-TC7 Joint Symposium will take place at the City University London, United Kingdom in September 2010. For the first time this Symposium will also include the IMEKO Technical Committee 13 (TC13) - Measurements in Biology and Medicine. The Symposium is organised by the City University London in collaboration with the Institute of Physics (IOP), UK.

Conference Handbook (PDF, 245 KB)
Contains all the information entail with the conference

Scope

The scope of the Symposium includes the main topics covered by the above Technical Committees:

TC1        Education and Training in Measurement and Instrumentation
TC7        Measurement Science
TC13      Measurements in Biology and Medicine

Symposium Themes

From these evolve the following main themes of the Symposium:

• Educational aspects of measurement science and instrumentation
• Real and virtual tools for education and training in measurement
• Scope and development of measurement and instrumentation as an academic discipline
• Methods and novel aspects of teaching in measurement

• Basic concepts of measurement science, formal theories of measurement, emerging challenges and novel concepts
• Historical, social and ethical aspects of measurement science
• Interdisciplinary nature of measurement
• Measurement uncertainty
• Epistemology of measurement
• Mathematical modelling and design in measurement and instrumentation
• Intelligent measurement, smart sensors and instrumentation
• Virtual instrumentation
• Software engineering in measurement systems
• Artificial intelligence in measurement, computer aided measurement
• Weakly-defined or soft measurement – non-physical measurement, for example in psychological, social and economic domains

• Invasive and non-invasive biological measurements at whole body, organ and cellular levels
• Biological sensing modalities – electrical, chemical and nuclear
• Measurement in critical care units and in clinical laboratories
• Medical imaging – measurements, image processing and interpretation, measurements in diagnostic imaging
• Smart sensing and smart biomedical instrumentation, intelligent instrumentation in medicine and healthcare
• Medical information systems – information processing, decision making and patient management, diagnosis and knowledge-based systems, information handling

Symposium Highlights 

• Contributed papers reflecting recent research work in the field in oral and/or exhibited sessions.
• Exciting social programme drawing its themes from London and the City and giving experts a chance to meet informally in a variety of interesting City locations.

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