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Annette Koo - Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand
Cheese, platinum and fundamental constants - what is the revision of the SI all about?ABSTRACT
Worldwide agreement on units of measurement has brought us freedom to trade and innovate and supported improved wellbeing and trust. This talk will describe why are we changing things now and what the revision of the International System of Units promises for the future.
I will discuss the history of the units we use every day then unpack the redefinition of the kilogram, the ampere, the kelvin and the mole that occurred on May 20, 2019.
In conclusion, I will discuss New Zealand’s role in the international measurement quality infrastructure and how you can access traceable measurements to support business development and research.
BIO
Annette Koo
Principal Research Scientist
Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand
Annette completed a physics PhD through Victoria University in 2005 and then spent 3 years in Melbourne as a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO and then at Monash University doing research into catalysts for solar hydrogen generation.
In 2008 she started at MSL as a research scientist, developing expertise in the measurement of light and human perception, including design of MSL’s robot-based goniospectrophotometer and piloting the CCPR comparison of spectral transmittance.
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