Nevertheless the public of the previous versions of the Brazilian Congress of Metrology and its international scope, Metrologia 2011 will be opened for all the community with interest in the different aspects of technology, science and the art of measurement, promoting an interaction among specialists, academics, researchers and metrologists from governmental organizations or from the private sector, national and international ones.According to the interests of this diversified target public, the event will present subjects of common interest in the following areas:

Area 01: Education in Technology;

• 1.1. Education and training in metrology and instrumentation;
• 1.2. Tools for metrology teaching;
• 1.3. Virtual Instrumentation for measurement training;
• 1.4. Successful experiences in metrology and instrumentation teaching;
• 1.5. The social role of measurement and its applications.

Área 02: Optics;

• 2.1. Photometry and radiometry;
• 2.2. Colorimetry, spectrophotometry and optical properties of materials;
• 2.3. Interferometry and holography;
• 2.4. Quantum optics and non-linear optics;
• 2.5. Time and frequency;
• 2.6. Optical fibers and optical films;
• 2.7. Optical sensors;
• 2.8. Light sources applied to health;
• 2.9. Luminous sources for applications in illumination and signing.

Área 03: Uncertainty, Statistics and Mathematics.

• 3.1. Interlaboratorial Comparisons;
• 3.2. Proficiency Essays and Traceability;
• 3.3. Measurement systems analysis and modeling;
• 3.4. Mathematical tools and statistics for metrology;
• 3.5. Artificial Intelligence in Metrology and Instrumentation;
• 3.6. Evaluation of measurement uncertainty;
• 3.7. Warrant of measurement quality;

Area 04: Legal

• 4.1. Metrological regulation;
• 4.2. Legal Metrological Control;
• 4.3. Standards, methods and measurement procedures;

Area 05: Health;

• 5.1. Mathematical models for measurement in biology and medicine;
• 5.2. Digital Images and special instrumentation for biomeasurements;
• 5.3. Methods, systems, measurement and instrumentation in Biologyand Medicine;
• 5.4. Technical Diagnosis;
• 5.5. Interlaboratorial comparisons and proficiency essays in Biology and Medicine;
• 5.6. Biomedical Measurements for improvement of quality of life;
• 5.7. Basic principles and tendencies for the development in diagnosis work.

Area 06: Management system and infra-structure for laboratories;

• 6.1. Quality Management in calibration and essays laboratories;
• 6.2. Regional cooperation in metrology;
• 6.3. Support to measurement and essays services;
• 6.4. Traceability, interlaboratorial comparisons and proficiency essays;
• 6.5. Laboratorial Automation.

Area 07: Temperature and Thermic Metrology;

• 7.1. Metrology and instrumentation in Thermometry;
• 7.2. Metrology and instrumentation in pirometry and thermometry in radiation;
• 7.3. Metrology and instrumentation in hygrometry;
• 7.4. Standards, sensors and new techniques of measurement;
• 7.5. Interlaboratorial comparisons and proficiency essays;

Area 08: Instrumentation, Automation and Robotics;

• 8.1. Measurement and technology applied to robotics;
• 8.2. Sensors in robotics;
• 8.3. Measurement and evaluations of robots behavior and performance;
• 8.4. Robotics applications to improve the quality of life;
• 8.5. Virtual reality;

Area 09: Environment;

• 9.1. Analytical methods of air, water and land;
• 9.2. Instrumental Methods of measurement of environmental pollution;
• 9.3. Remote sensor for environmental pollution control;
• 9.4. Quality warrant and quality control for environmental measurements;
• 9.5. Interlaboratorial comparisons and proficiency essays in environmental metrology.

Area 10: Chemistry;

• 10.1. Electrochemistry Metrology in pH measurements;
• 10.2. Electrochemistry Metrology in electrolytic conductivity measurements;
• 10.3. Electrochemistry Metrology in coulometry;
• 10.4. Research and development in chromatography;
• 10.5. Mass Spectrometry;
• 10.6. Determination and quantification of organic analits in different matrixes;
• 10.7. Development and certification of reference materials;
• 10.8. Traceability in organic analysis for different matrixes, as: food, medicine, biofuels and environmental matrixes;
• 10.9. Establishment of traceability in inorganic analysis;
• 10.10. Statistics applied to analytical quality warrant;
• 10.11. Metrology in gaseity;
• 10.12. Establishment of traceability in analysis of quality air control and natural gas;
• 10.13. Research and development in gaseity chromatography and infrared spectrometry in different matrixes;
• 10.14. Development of primary standards of gas mixes.

Area 11: Food;

• 11.1. Metrology and instrumentation in the food industry;
• 11.2. Interlaboratorial comparisons in proficiency essays;
• 11.3. Traceability of systems and equipment of measurement used in the food industry.

Area 12: Acoustics and vibration;

• 12.1. Metrology and instrumentation in acoustics and vibrations;
• 12.2. System of sonorous performance measurements;
• 12.3. System of sonorous absorption measurements;
• 12.4. System of time measurements in chamber reverberation;
• 12.5. System for measurements of environmental / work place noise;
• 12.6. Calibration of microphones by impulsive answer;
• 12.7. Primary calibration of microphones in outdoors;
• 12.8. Speedometer calibration;
• 12.9. Calibration of vibrometers with digital output;
• 12.10. Hydrophones calibration;
• 12.11. Calibration system of ultra-sonic transducers;
• 12.12. System for sheaf mapping of ultra-sonic sources;
• 12.13. System for calibration of balance of radiation comparison;
• 12.14. Interlaboratorial comparisons and proficiency essays; traceability;

Area 13: Materials;

• 13.1. Characterization of physical-chemistry, morphological, structural, magnetic, thermic and mechanical properties of materials;
• 13.2. Metrology in Biomaterials and tribology;
• 13.3. Analysis of surfaces and interfaces;
• 13.4. Microscopy;
• 13.5. Organic devices;
• 13.6. Magnetism and Spectroscopy;
• 13.7. Thermal analysis;
• 13.8. Diffraction and spectroscopy;
• 13.9. Nanometrology;

Area 14: Nuclear and ionizing radiation.

• 14.1. Metrology and instrumentation in ionizing radiations;
• 14.2. Development of measurement methods and standards;
• 14.3. Interlaboratorial comparisons and proficiency essays;
• 14.4. Traceability of standards and measurements systems used in nuclear and radiation fields.

Area 15: Metrology, Standardization and Conformity Assessment

• 15.1. Convergence between metrology industrial/legal and Conformity Assessment;
• 15.2. The Impact of Metrology for the Conformity Assessment;
• 15.3. Accreditation of laboratories: A Management for quality of products and services;
• 15.4. ISO 17.025 - The Quality of the Management of the Laboratories being Evaluated.