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American Institute of Physics Proficiency Testing In Applications Of The Ionizing Radiation And Nuclear Analytical Techniques In Industry Medicine And Environment 2008 Edition by Mike Woods Emanuela Cincu Ioana Manea
The first Workshop on 'Nuclear Proficiency Testing' (PT) focused on the new topic appeared at the junction of the nuclear basic research metrology quality control in applications and the new 'Science of Analytical Performance' (SAP) namely: 'how to get/prove the most accurate and precise scientific/technical results in the current practice. Any analytical laboratory should fulfill this goal in order to assure the public credibility of its results either it is part of the scientific research institute or a laboratory dedicated to the routine control of the environment industry health /medicine radioprotection or dosimetry as the quality of the analytical results and of the services that will be further used depend critically on the accuracy and validity of measurements (EN ISO/IEC Standard 17025: 2005). 'Proficiency Testing' plays a central role in this process as the best tool to prove and certify the Laboratory's Performance & Competence; it belongs to SAP which in our case should be called SNAP (Science of the Nuclear Analytical Performance) as it concerns performance in applications of the nuclear analytical techniques.The 'PT Workshop-2007' created the opportunity to learn the criteria / tools used for interpreting the experimental results and evaluating performance 'how to fit' the laboratory's performance with the rigor of international 'Proficiency Testing' evaluation to understand the basic aspects of methods validation and traceability of the nuclear physical quantities to SI use of the reference materials and of the statistic criteria for the fitness-for-purpose objectives advantages of the ILC /PT exercises and how to get the 'Excellence'; so it was primarily a 'school' but not only because the meeting was also a framework for participants to present their latest results and developments.The unique feature of the 'PT Workshop-2007' was the participation -for the first time in a scientific meeting of experts intimately involved in the development of International and National Standards and the organization of international Inter-Laboratory Comparison (ILC) and Proficiency Testing (PT) exercises of experts involved in radionuclide metrology who generally establish the norms and requirements for the accuracy of measurements and analytical methods and experts and specialists involved in nuclear application as 'lectors'. Their presence and lessons assured the highest level of knowledge for a successful 'school' in the field of Nuclear Proficiency Testing and the discussions they created were very fruitful to the benefit of all the participants. Table of contents : Global Analysis and Infinite-Dimensional Lie Groups.- Aspects of Stochastic Global Analysis.- A Lie Group Structure for Automorphisms of a Contact Weyl Manifold.- Riemannian Geometry.- Projective Structures of a Curve in a Conformal Space.- Deformations of Surfaces Preserving Conformal or Similarity Invariants.- Global Structures of Compact Conformally Flat Semi-Symmetric Spaces of Dimension 3 and of Non-Constant Curvature.- Differential Geometry of Analytic Surfaces with Singularities.- Symplectic Geometry and Poisson Geometry.- The Integration Problem for Complex Lie Algebroids.- Reduction Induction and Ricci Flat Symplectic Connections.- Local Lie Algebra Determines Base Manifold.- Lie Algebroids Associated with Deformed Schouten Bracket of 2-Vector Fields.- Parabolic Geometries Associated with Differential Equations of Finite Type.- Quantizations and Noncommutative Geometry.- Toward Geometric Quantum Theory.- Resonance Gyrons and Quantum Geometry.- A Secondary Invariant of Foliated Spaces and Type III? von Neumann Algebras.- The Geometry of Space-Time and Its Deformations from a Physical Perspective.- Geometric Objects in an Approach to Quantum Geometry.