The co-Directors of the BIPM Metrology Summer School 2008, Prof Andrew Wallard, Director of the BIPM, Dr Alan Steele from NRC in Ottawa (Canada), and Dr Mike Sargent from LGC in Teddington (United Kingdom), and the Scientific Secretary for the School, Dr Claudine Thomas from the BIPM, are pleased to announce the second BIPM Metrology Summer School which will be held from 29 June to 11 July 2008.

The aim of the School is twofold:

1. to present a broad review by world experts of the present state of metrology to a select group of about eighty students drawn wholly from the National Metrology Institutes of Member States and Associates of the CGPM, and
2. to provide the occasion for these young people, from among whom the leaders of tomorrow's world metrology system will emerge, to meet and make the essential contacts for the future.

The program promises to be exciting and well balanced, including a mixture of theory and experiment, Chemistry and Physics, and views of both the current and possible future versions of the International System of Units.

Invited Nobel laureates : Prof. Sir Harry Kroto, Prof. William Phillips, Prof. Klaus von Klitzing
Special guest : Mrs Dava Sobel, author of "Longitude"
and more than forty teachers, chosen among the best Metrology world experts.
Other activities include workshops, poster session, picnic lunches at the BIPM, Summer School party, and warm and friendly atmosphere for two weeks...

Download the complete programme of the School (.PDF)

Download the poster of the School (.PDF)

From left to right: A. Wallard, C. Thomas, M. Sargent, A. Steele