Organizers : Nadine de Courtenay,
Olivier Darrigol, Sara Franceschelli, Jan Lacki
PRESENTATION
The aim of this year’s seminar is to improve our understanding of these hidden metrological aspects of experiment. In particular, we wish to address the following questions :
- Definition of magnitudes.
- Definition and redefinition of units ; evolution of standards, of their modes of dissemination ; calibration of instruments ; metrological traceability.
- Measurement and decision (acceptance of a hypothesis, of a product) ; models of the measurement process, evaluation of uncertainties, adjustment methods, normalization of instruments, decision criteria.
- Determination of reference values (physical constants, fundamental constants) ; key role of inter-laboratory comparisons.
- Growing role of international institutions and study groups (BIPM, CGPM, OIML for legal metrology, JCGM for the VIM and GUM). Multiplication of the norms for measurement processes.
In conformity with the general purpose of this seminar, we wish to focus on physical quantities and on related metrological questions. However, we also wish to address the implication of physical metrology in domains other than physics (biology, medicine, techniques, industry, trade…) and examine the feedback effects on metrological practices.
ante 2008-2009, 2008-2009, 2009-2010,
2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016
PROGRAM
The seminar is held from 5pm to 7pm in room 483A-Malevitch, Condorcet building, 4, rue Elsa Morante, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7). Map.
Nov. 13 2012 Special Conference *
Olival Freire (Université fédérale de Bahia)
The quantum dissidents : Rebuilding the foundations of quantum theory (1950-1990)
Dec. 4
, 9:30 – 18:00, Workshop SI-12 (SPHERE / Archives Henri Poincaré)salle Mondrian, 646A
The taming of measurement uncertainties : theoretical, practical, and philosophical issues
!! exceptionnally Wednesday !! Dec. 5
Giora Hon (University of Tel-Aviv)
Is a measurement an experiment ? The structural view
2013, Feb. 5
Lena Soler (Archives Henri Poincaré)
La calibration dans les pratiques quotidiennes scientifiques : une tentative de caractérisation conceptuelle
March 5
Mieke Boon (University of Twente)
Measurements and experiments in the Engineering Sciences
March 19
Marc Priel (Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais, LNE)
De la mesure à la métrologie − de quels concepts avons nous besoin ?
* A chance as Olival Freire is invited Professor at Département d’Histoire et philosophie des sciences, at the University Paris Diderot.
