Director of NIST visits KRISS
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- Date2019-06-28 16:22
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Dr. Walter Copan, the director of NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology), and his colleagues visited KRISS on June 28 as the third leg of his visit to NMIs in East Asia.
The delegation of NIST and the KRISS management with Dr. Sang-Ryoul Park, the president of KRISS, firstly shared the current status of each institute and engaged in discussion on their research cooperation on quantum technology. NIST and KRISS have cooperated in the standardization of photocatalytic activity assay and the development of advanced superconducting Josephson. The delegations from the two sides reviewed the progress in each research and discussed further plans.
NIST delegates paid a visit to some labs including Quantum Technology Institute, Center for Mechanical Metrology, Center for Nano-Bio Measurement, and Center for Gas Analysis. In particular, Dr. Walter Copan gave high marks to the facility of gas analysis and its technology.
In the wrap-up discussion, the two leaders agreed to step up joint efforts to discover various issues of mutual interest and expressed their hopes for promoting them.