PROCEEDINGS

for the 19th International CODATA Conference
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:
NEW HORIZONS FOR SCIENCE
Berlin, Germany — 7-10 November 2004

Speakers

CODATA 2004 Proceedings Index
Keynotes
Plenaries
Data Archiving
Data Quality
Data Visualization
E-Learning
Environmental Informatics
Gas Hydrates
Infoscience Today
Interoperability
Knowledge Discovery
Multi-disciplinary Data Projects
Open Scientific Communications
Publication and Citation of Scientific Data
Scientific Data for Economic Development
Scientific Informatics in EurAsia
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Posters

Submission/Publication Guidelines

Organization Committees
The International Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee
The Local Organization Committee

Scientific Program
Program at a Glance
Final Detailed Program Book [large pdf file - you may want to right-click and save to your computer]
General Information About the Program

Dr. Joachim Fischer
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Abbestrasse 2-12
10587 Berlin
Germany

Joachim Fischer attended the University of Stuttgart, Germany and obtained the M. S. degree in physics in 1981 and the Ph.D. degree in physics at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1985. Since 1882 he has been with the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin. He first worked at the laboratory of synchrotron radiation at the electron storage ring BESSY on laser produced plasmas as radiometric transfer standards.

In 1986 he joined the section temperature radiation of PTB. He was responsible for realisation and dissemination of the International Temperature Scale using optical methods and for the PTB scale of spectral radiance. His work has been devoted to radiation thermometry through the development of absolute cryogenic radiometry and the determination of thermodynamic temperatures using advanced blackbody sources. Other major projects included remote sensing and thermography.

Since 2001 he is heading the department Temperature of PTB. In the four working groups of the department with about 20 staff members the temperature scales PLTS-2000 and ITS-90 are maintained, developed and disseminated to the user by contact thermometry. The applied temperatures range from the millikelvin region to more than 2000 °C. In current projects he is involved in the improvement of the fixed points of the ITS-90 and in research on a new definition of the SI-base unit kelvin by fixing the value of the Boltzmann constant employing gas thermometry. Since 2001 he is representing PTB in the Consultative Committee for Thermometry and was elected to chair the working group on radiation thermometry.

Berlin, November 2004