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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Hydrometer Calibrations
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of workshop; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), an
agency of the United States Department
of Commerce, is examining the
economic impact and continued need
for Hydrometer calibration services as
provided to U.S. industry by the Fluid
Metrology Group on NIST’s campus in
Gaithersburg, Maryland. NIST is also
interested in whether there is a need for
liquid density calibration services not
presently offered by NIST. NIST
publishes this notice to announce a
workshop that will guide NIST planning
for the future of its hydrometer
calibration capabilities, and to request
comments on government and industry
interest in and needs for hydrometer
calibrations. This is part of the effort to
systematically review NIST’s
Measurement Services to assess gaps
and ensure alignment with stakeholders’
needs as discussed in the Government
Accounting Office report GAO–18–445.
DATES:
For Comments: NIST will accept
written responses to this request for
information until 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Time on May 2, 2023. Submissions
received after that date may not be
considered. Written comments in
response to this notice should be
submitted according to the instructions
in the ADDRESSES section below.
For Workshop: A public workshop
will be held on Tuesday May 2, 2023,
from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Time, virtually by web conferencing.
Interested parties must register to
participate in the public workshop no
later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
Monday May 1, 2023, by sending an
email to sherry.sheckels@nist.gov.
ADDRESSES:
For Comments: Comments should be
submitted to Sherry Sheckels, Sensor
Science Division, Physical Measurement
Laboratory, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau
Drive, Mail Stop 8361, Gaithersburg,
Maryland 20899, or by electronic mail
to sherry.sheckels@nist.gov. Comments
referencing studies, research, and other
empirical data should include copies of
the referenced materials. All comments,
including attachments and other
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supporting materials, submitted in
response to this document will become
part of the public record and may be
subject to public disclosure. Therefore,
do not submit confidential business
information or otherwise sensitive,
protected, or personal information, such
as account numbers, Social Security
numbers, or names of other individuals.
For tours: Individuals or groups
interested in touring the liquid density
standard laboratories in person are
welcome and can schedule tours by
writing to the email address,
sherry.sheckels@nist.gov, before or after
the workshop.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mail: Fluid Metrology Group, Attn:
Sherry Sheckels, Hydrometer
Calibrations, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail
Stop 8361, Gaithersburg, Maryland
20899. Email: Sherry Sheckels at
sherry.sheckels@nist.gov. Phone
number: 301 975–5940.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST
provides calibration services for
reference hydrometers to measure liquid
density. These reference standard
hydrometers are generally used as
laboratory standards to calibrate other
hydrometers.
Reference hydrometers accepted for
calibration include specific gravity,
proof spirit for alcohol solutions, API
degrees for petroleum measurements,
degrees Baume heavy and degrees
Baume light, and other arbitrary scales,
all subject to discussion with the
technical contacts. Specific gravity
hydrometers cover the specific gravity
range of 0.65 to 2.
NIST is seeking comments on the
following topics; however, NIST does
not intend to limit the responses to the
topics listed below, provided that the
responses address topics that would be
useful in planning NIST offerings for
liquid density calibrations service.
When addressing the topics below,
respondents may describe the practices
of their organization or organizations
with which they are familiar. Providing
such information is optional and will
not affect NIST’s full consideration of
the comment.
Topics of Interest:
1. Have you purchased hydrometer
calibrations, if any, including:
a. If you have purchased calibrations
from NIST, whether you purchased from
NIST due to convenience, accuracy,
cost, customer service, regulatory
requirement, or some other reason;
b. If NIST was to terminate the
hydrometer calibration service(s) you
presently use, whether you have another
source lined up that would meet your
requirements; and
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c. Whether it would pose a problem
to your organization if the calibration
service was not available at NIST.
2. How NIST calibration results are
applied in your organization, including
numerical examples of ‘‘leverage’’ to
assess the economic impact of NIST
hydrometer calibration services.
3. Whether hydrometer calibrations in
your organization are traceable to NIST,
including:
a. Whether you refer to NIST
hydrometer publications or research to
support your hydrometer
measurements; and
b. If not directly traceable to NIST,
whether you know how your
hydrometer measurements compare to
NIST hydrometer standards (for
example by comparison against a
hydrometer traceable to a NIST
calibration).
4. Feedback on the cost, availability,
turn-around time, business systems, and
customer service provided by NIST
hydrometer calibration services.
5. Whether you purchase hydrometer
calibrations from another National
Metrology Institute (NMI) or from
another calibration laboratory, and your
organization’s experience with this
approach.
6. Your opinions about the range,
uncertainty, quality and cost of the
NIST hydrometer calibration services.
7. Whether you manufacture and sell
hydrometers or sell calibrations of such
hydrometers; if so, whether your
hydrometer calibration values are
traceable to NIST; and, if not NIST,
whether you use a secondary laboratory,
another NMI, or have your own primary
standard(s).
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b) & (c).
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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Existence and Use of Large Datasets
To Address Research Questions for
Characterization and Autonomous
Tuning of Semiconductor Quantum
Dot Devices
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of workshop; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) is
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seeking input regarding needs and gaps
in data-sharing approaches to accelerate
innovations in using artificial
intelligence and machine learning
techniques to improve the experimental
characterization and control of
semiconductor quantum dot devices. As
part of this effort, NIST hopes to
identify the needs for quantum dot
device tuning automation, including
existing and future quantum dot related
datasets that may be useful for research,
means and methods currently deployed
for tuning, barriers for advancing the
current state of the art techniques to
enable automation of large quantum dot
arrays, and the meaningful measures of
success for the various stages of
characterization and control. NIST plans
to hold a workshop on July 19–20, 2023,
in conjunction with this notice. The
information received in response to this
notice and during the workshop will
inform efforts and coordination needed
to develop a reference database of
experimental and simulated data. The
reference database will ideally represent
the various phases of tuning quantum
dot devices, along with metrics for
benchmarking the characterization and
control methods for quantum dot
devices.
DATES:
For Comments: Comments must be
received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
June 12, 2023. Written comments in
response to this notice should be
submitted according to the instructions
in the ADDRESSES section below.
Submissions received after that date
may not be considered.
For Workshop: The in-person
Workshop on Advances in Automation
of Quantum Dot Devices
Characterization and Control will be
held on July 19–20, 2023, from 9:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time at the
National Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence (NCCoE), 9700 Great Seneca
Highway, Rockville, MD 20850.
Attendees must register at the workshop
website by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
June 19, 2023.
ADDRESSES:
For Comments: Written comments
may be submitted only by email to Dr.
Justyna Zwolak at aqd@nist.gov in any
of the following formats: ASCII; Word;
RTF; or PDF. Please include your name,
organization’s name (if any), and cite
‘‘Automation of Semiconductor
Quantum Dot Devices’’ in the subject
line of all correspondence. Comments
containing references, studies, research,
and other empirical data that are not
widely published should include copies
of the referenced materials. All
comments responding to this document
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will be a matter of public record.
Relevant comments will generally be
made publicly available at https://
www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/
07/advances-automation-quantum-dotdevices-control as submitted. NIST will
not accept comments accompanied by a
request that part or all of the material be
treated confidentially because of its
business proprietary nature or for any
other reason. Therefore, do not submit
confidential business information or
otherwise sensitive, protected, or
personal information, such as account
numbers, Social Security numbers, or
names of other individuals.
For Workshop: The workshop will be
held at NCCoE, 9700 Great Seneca
Highway, Rockville, MD 20850. Please
note admittance instructions under the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this notice. To register, go to: https://
www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2023/
07/advances-automation-quantum-dotdevices-control. Additional information
about the workshop will be available at
this web address as the workshop
approaches.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions about this notice contact
Justyna Zwolak or Jacob Taylor by email
at aqd@nist.gov or Justyna Zwolak by
phone at (301) 975–0527. Please direct
media inquiries to NIST’s Office of
Public Affairs at (301) 975–2762.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Over the past five years,
researchers working with
semiconducting quantum dot devices
have begun to take advantage of the data
analysis tools provided by the field of
artificial intelligence and, more
specifically, supervised and
unsupervised machine learning. When
provided with proper training data,
machine-learning-enhanced methods
may have the flexibility of being
applicable to various devices without
any adjustments or retraining.
Moreover, by learning the governing
rules and dynamics directly from the
data, machine learning algorithms may
be less susceptible to programming
errors. However, machine learning
models typically require large, labeled
datasets for training, validation, and
benchmarking. They also often lack
information about the reliability of the
machine learning prediction. Moreover,
since the application of machine
learning to quantum dot tuning,
characterization, and control is a
relatively new field of research, it lacks
standardized measures of success. The
success rates reported in the various
publications vary significantly in both
the level and meaning of the reported
performance statistics, making it hard (if
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hydrometer Calibrations
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of workshop; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an
agency of the United States Department of Commerce, is examining the
economic impact and continued need for Hydrometer calibration services
as provided to U.S. industry by the Fluid Metrology Group on NIST's
campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. NIST is also interested in whether
there is a need for liquid density calibration services not presently
offered by NIST. NIST publishes this notice to announce a workshop that
will guide NIST planning for the future of its hydrometer calibration
capabilities, and to request comments on government and industry
interest in and needs for hydrometer calibrations. This is part of the
effort to systematically review NIST's Measurement Services to assess
gaps and ensure alignment with stakeholders' needs as discussed in the
Government Accounting Office report GAO-18-445.
DATES:
For Comments: NIST will accept written responses to this request
for information until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 2, 2023.
Submissions received after that date may not be considered. Written
comments in response to this notice should be submitted according to
the instructions in the ADDRESSES section below.
For Workshop: A public workshop will be held on Tuesday May 2,
2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, virtually by web
conferencing. Interested parties must register to participate in the
public workshop no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday May 1,
2023, by sending an email to [email protected].
ADDRESSES:
For Comments: Comments should be submitted to Sherry Sheckels,
Sensor Science Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop
8361, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, or by electronic mail to
[email protected]. Comments referencing studies, research, and
other empirical data should include copies of the referenced materials.
All comments, including attachments and other supporting materials,
submitted in response to this document will become part of the public
record and may be subject to public disclosure. Therefore, do not
submit confidential business information or otherwise sensitive,
protected, or personal information, such as account numbers, Social
Security numbers, or names of other individuals.
For tours: Individuals or groups interested in touring the liquid
density standard laboratories in person are welcome and can schedule
tours by writing to the email address, [email protected], before
or after the workshop.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mail: Fluid Metrology Group, Attn:
Sherry Sheckels, Hydrometer Calibrations, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop
8361, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899. Email: Sherry Sheckels at
[email protected]. Phone number: 301 975-5940.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST provides calibration services for
reference hydrometers to measure liquid density. These reference
standard hydrometers are generally used as laboratory standards to
calibrate other hydrometers.
Reference hydrometers accepted for calibration include specific
gravity, proof spirit for alcohol solutions, API degrees for petroleum
measurements, degrees Baume heavy and degrees Baume light, and other
arbitrary scales, all subject to discussion with the technical
contacts. Specific gravity hydrometers cover the specific gravity range
of 0.65 to 2.
NIST is seeking comments on the following topics; however, NIST
does not intend to limit the responses to the topics listed below,
provided that the responses address topics that would be useful in
planning NIST offerings for liquid density calibrations service. When
addressing the topics below, respondents may describe the practices of
their organization or organizations with which they are familiar.
Providing such information is optional and will not affect NIST's full
consideration of the comment.
Topics of Interest:
1. Have you purchased hydrometer calibrations, if any, including:
a. If you have purchased calibrations from NIST, whether you
purchased from NIST due to convenience, accuracy, cost, customer
service, regulatory requirement, or some other reason;
b. If NIST was to terminate the hydrometer calibration service(s)
you presently use, whether you have another source lined up that would
meet your requirements; and
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c. Whether it would pose a problem to your organization if the
calibration service was not available at NIST.
2. How NIST calibration results are applied in your organization,
including numerical examples of ``leverage'' to assess the economic
impact of NIST hydrometer calibration services.
3. Whether hydrometer calibrations in your organization are
traceable to NIST, including:
a. Whether you refer to NIST hydrometer publications or research to
support your hydrometer measurements; and
b. If not directly traceable to NIST, whether you know how your
hydrometer measurements compare to NIST hydrometer standards (for
example by comparison against a hydrometer traceable to a NIST
calibration).
4. Feedback on the cost, availability, turn-around time, business
systems, and customer service provided by NIST hydrometer calibration
services.
5. Whether you purchase hydrometer calibrations from another
National Metrology Institute (NMI) or from another calibration
laboratory, and your organization's experience with this approach.
6. Your opinions about the range, uncertainty, quality and cost of
the NIST hydrometer calibration services.
7. Whether you manufacture and sell hydrometers or sell
calibrations of such hydrometers; if so, whether your hydrometer
calibration values are traceable to NIST; and, if not NIST, whether you
use a secondary laboratory, another NMI, or have your own primary
standard(s).
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b) & (c).
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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