News & Events

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Monday, November 6th

11:00 AM I Conference Start

11:00 AM I Introduction
Jeff Hovis, President, CNC-CIE

11:05 AM I CIE Research Strategy
Jennifer Veitch, President, CIE

11:40 AM I short break

11:50 AM I Optical Properties of Materials
Chair: Aaron Goldfain

11:50 AM I Material Characterization of Phantom Standards Developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for Quantitative Optical Medical Imaging Application and Technology for Quantitative Optical Medical Imaging Applications
Jeeseong Hwang, NIST

12:10 PM I µBRDF Measurement and Traceability Challenges
Lou Gevaux, LNE-CNAM

12:30 PM I Impact of a Finite Thickness Integrating Sphere Port on Diffuse Reflectance Measurements
Luke Sandilands, NRC

12:50 PM I UV-C Directional Reflectance Measurements of Common Materials
Aaron Goldfain, NIST

1:10 PM I break

1:40 PM I UV Radiometry
Chair: Andrew Jackson

1:40 PM I UV LED Measurements Using the IES-LM-92 Methods
Jeff Hulett, Vektrex

2:00 PM I Key Findings from Radiometric Testing of Upper-Room GUV Luminaires
Jason Tuenge, PNNL

2:20 PM I Field-Evaluations of Upper-Room and Whole-Room Germicidal Ultraviolet Installations
Eduardo Rodriguez & Feo Bermudez, PNNL

2:40 PM I short break

2:50 PM I UV Radiometry (Cont.)

2:50 PM I UVC and GUV Measurements in the UVSCF
Jeanne Houston, NIST

3:10 PM I Importance of UV Spectral Distribution in Solar Simulator Applications
Andrew Brezinski, Sciencetech, Inc

3:30 PM I The Need for Fluence-Rate Measurement Instruments
David Sliney, Independent Consultant

3:50 PM I break

4:20 PM I Current Research at NMIs I
Chair: Angela Gamouras

4:20 PM I A New Method for Measuring Splice Loss Uncertainty in Single Photon Detector Efficiency Measurements
Sonia Buckley, NIST

4:40 PM I Spectroradiometer Calibration with an UAV-Borne Light Source
Liviu Ivanescu, NRC

5:00 PM I Development of a New Reference Photometer
Yuqin Zong, NIST

5:20 PM I Infrared Radiometry for Space-Based Earth Outgoing Radiation Measurements
Patrick McArdle, NIST

5:40 PM I End of Day

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Tuesday, November 7th

11:00 AM I Educational Session on Glare Metrics, Models and Standards
Moderator: Mark Jongewaard

Speakers: Belal Abboushi and Naomi Miller from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mehlika Inanici (University of Washington) and John Bullough (Mount Sinai Light and Health Research Center)

12:30 PM I break

1:00 PM I Current Research at NMIs II
Chair: Heather Patrick

1:00 PM I Radiation Pressure to Facilitate Measurements of High Laser Powers
Kyle Rogers, NIST

1:20 PM I Quantum Cascade Lasers for Measurement Science
Nelson Rowell, NRC

1:40 PM I NRC Cryogenic Radiometer: Scale realization from the UV to NIR
Ka-ming Liu, NRC

2:00 PM I Laboratory and Field Calibration Methods for Solar-induced Fluorescence Monitoring Systems Julia Marrs, NIST

2:20 PM I break

2:50 PM I Metrology of Indoor and Outdoor Lighting
Chair: Craig Bernecker

2:50 PM I A New Metric for Visibility of the Phantom Array Effect
Jianchuan Tan, PNNL

3:10 PM I Study of Non-Uniformity Corrections in Luminous Flux Measurements of Automotive Headlamps Using an Integrating Sphere Through Simulations
Luis Prado Jr., Prado Lux

3:30 PM I Development and Verification of a Low-Cost Handheld Spectroradiometer
William Mills, Northern Illinois

3:50 PM I Effect of Field of View and Cosine Correction on Spatial Efficiency for Indoor Lighting
Parisa Mahmoudzadeh, Penn State

4:10 PM I break

4:40 PM I Further Studies in Metrology of Indoor and Outdoor Lighting
Chair: Howard Eng

4:40 PM I Discomfort Glare for Pedestrians: Can Any Model Get Us in the Ballpark
Belal Abboushi, PNNL

5:00 PM I Accuracy of the CIE Standard Observer and Other Spectral Luminous Efficiency Functions
Wangyang Song, Penn State

5:20 PM I Improving the Mp Metric for Evaluation of Flicker
Jiaye Li, NIST

6:00 PM I end of day

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Wednesday, November 8th

11:00 AM I Invited talk on Cone Fundamental Photometry and Colorimetry
Lorne Whitehead, University of British Columbia

11:30 AM I short break

11:40 AM I Human Vision
Chair: Jeff Hovis

11:40 AM I The Effect of Texture on Perceived Color Difference
Zhenhua Luo, NC State

12:00 PM I The Influence of Background on the Visual Color Difference Evaluation of Multicolored Materials
Jiaying Wu, NC State

12:20 PM I Visual Quality in Low-Light Environments: Effects of White, Amber and Red Lighting on Perception and Light Pollution Reduction
Dorukalp Durmus, Penn State

12:40 PM I break

1:10 PM I Human Vision, Cont.

1:10 PM I Do Working Individuals with Color Vision Deficiencies Experience Challenges in the Digital Age?
Sandra Mazur, Univ. Waterloo

1:30 PM I Color Vision Testing for the Railways
Jeffery Hovis, Univ. Waterloo

1:50 PM I Gender Disparities in Spatial Cognition: The Influence of Stereopsis and Mental Rotation
Sunder Bukya, University of Delhi/Harvard

2:10 PM I A Core Lighting Curriculum for University Students and Independent Learners
Kevin Houser, Oregon State

2:30 PM I break

2:45 PM I CIE Div reports

4:15 PM I End of conference