Metrology Symposium 2024
Metrology Symposium 2024
16-18 APRIL 2024, RADOM, POLAND
DAY 0: 2024-04-15
10:00
RADWAG bus departs from the Chopin Airport bus terminal
13:00
RADWAG bus departs from the Chopin Airport bus terminal
16:00
RADWAG bus departs from the Chopin Airport bus terminal
20:00
RADWAG bus departs from the Chopin Airport bus terminal
DAY 1: 2024-04-16
8:30 – 9:00
Pick up from hotels to RADWAG headquarters
9:00 - 9:30
Registration, coffee break
09:30 – 10:00
Witold Lewandowski – RADWAG Managing Director, Poland:
Welcome speech, History of Radwag
Pavel Klenovský – ČMI, Czech Republic:
Welcome speech, Metrology experts presentation
Jacek Semaniak – Central Office of Measures, Poland:
Welcome speech, President of the Central Office of Measures
Radosław Witkowski – President of Radom city, Poland:
Welcome speech, President of Radom city
Roman Szewczyk – Warsaw Uniwersity of Technology:
Welcome speech, Professor of the Warsaw University of Technology

10:00 – 12:00
Session 1 - Part 1 (RADWAG headquarters)
Georgette McDonald – NRC Canada, new Chair of CCM
Mass metrology in NRC Canada (30 min.)
Leon S. Chao – NIST USA
Modernizing Mass Metrology with Tabletop Kibble Balances (30 min.)
Dorothea Knopf – PTB Germany
Mass metrology in PTB (30 min.)
Jiří Tesař – ČMI Czech rep.
Redefinition of the unit of mass, current situation (30 min.)

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch (RADWAG canteen)
13:00 – 15:00
Session 2 - Part 1 (RADWAG headquarters)
Zoltan Zelenka – BEV Austria
Revisiting weighing designs in mass metrology (30 min.)
Jaroslav Zůda – ČMI, Czech Republic
Calibration guide for dissemination of mass (30 min.)
Bianka Stoilkovska – BoM North Macedonia
The needs in mass metrology in emerging institutes (30 min.)
Tadeusz Szumiata – Casimir Pulaski Radom University
Application of RADWAG AVK 1000.5Y vacuum mass comparator in the determination of mass standards density (30 min.)
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30
Session 2 - Part 2 (RADWAG headquarters)
Jakob F. Skjaerlund – Techvolver Aps
Automatic Pipette Calibration – A use case (30 min.)
Martin Häfner – Häfner Gewichte GmbH
Topic related to dissemination process (30 min.)
19:00 – 21:00
Dinner – Polish folk style
DAY 2: 2024-04-17
8:30 – 9:00
Pick up from hotels to RADWAG headquarters
8:30 – 9:00
Session 3 (RADWAG headquarters)
Cezary Górka – System for the implementation of calibration procedures for mass standards in a measurement laboratory (RMCS Software) (15 min.)
Sławomir Janas, Radosław Wilk – The influence of environmental conditions and their measurement on the calibration of mass standards (15 min.)
9:00 – 11:30
PARALLEL SESSION (RADWAG headquarters)
Tadeusz Szumiata & Michał Solecki - Test bench for comparison of standards at constant atmospheric pressure or vacuum of 10-6 mBar
AVK 1000.5Y (20 min.)
Agnieszka Żukowska - Test bench for testing the other physical parameters of the mass standards in accordance with OIML R111 (density & volume and magnetism)
AGV-1000.5Y and SM (20 min.)
Martin Häfner & Piotr Bobrowski - Robotic measuring station for the comparison of mass standards in the range 0.1 mg - 1 kg by dissimination process
RMCM 10.5Y, RMC 1000.5Y (20 min.)
Daniel Majcher - Impact of automation of the measurement process on the repeatability of mass comparators
UMA 10.5Y, UMA 200.5Y, NANO.AK-4/500, AK-4.5000.5Y (with self-centering pan), UYA 6.5Y.KO,
WAY 200.5Y.KO, WAY 1.5Y.KO (with self-centering pan), APP 10.5Y.KO (with self-centering pan), HRP 500.1.5Y.KO (20 min.)
Tomasz Zdral - Robotic measuring station for the comparison of heavy standards in the range of 2 kg - 50 kg
RMC 20000.5Y, AKM-2/20.5Y (20 min.)
Radosław Wilk - Calibration station for volume calibration of single and multichannel piston pipettes
AP-12.5Y, SDKP (20 min.)
Sławomir Janas - Robotised measuring station for weighing environmental samples
RB-UR.5Y.F, MYA 5.5Y.F1 (20 min.)
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch (RADWAG canteen)
12:30 – 15:00
Transfer to Sandomierz
15:00 – 19:00
Tour in Sandomierz including the underground route
19:00 – 22:00
Dinner
22:00 – 24:00
Transfer to Radom
DAY 3: 2024-04-18
9:30 – 11:00
Transfer to Kielce
11:00 – 11:30
Welcome – President of Central Office of Measures (GUM)
11:30 – 13:00
Visiting the Campus Laboratories
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:20
The New Laboratory Campus GUM in Kielce City - design, implementation, tasks – Project Manager
14:20 – 14:40
1st lecture prepared by the GUM Mass Laboratory - the topic and speaker will be presented later
14:40 – 15:00
2nd lecture prepared by the GUM Mass Laboratory - the topic and speaker will be presented later
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30
Summary of the Symposium
16:30 – 18:00
Transfer to Radom
DAY 4: 2024-04-19
ALL DAY
Transport to Warsaw Chopin Airport