Vacuum Metrology in 2026: Where do we stand, where do we want to go?
9:00 to 9:30 Registration and Get-together
The perspective from the past
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 9:30 | Karl Jousten | PTB | 60 years of vacuum metrology at PTB |
| 10:00 | Jay Hendricks | NIST | The development of vacuum research and service at NIST |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Paolo Chiggiato | CERN | Advancing vacuum technology at CERN: From future accelerators to gravitational-wave observatories |
The perspective from research
| 11:30 | Yuanchao Yang | NIM China | The prospects of photonic measurement for pressure, temperature and gas density |
| 12:00 | Julia Scherschligt | NIST | At the low end of the pressure scale: Atom traps as primary standards |
| 12:30 | Tom Rubin | PTB | Completing the vacuum scale with photonic measurements: Ideas und needs |
| 13:00 | Lunch break |
The perspective from metrology and science
| 14:00 | Domenico Mari | INRIM | Classical and optical vacuum metrology: Considerations for the future |
| 14:30 | Matthias Bernien | PTB | To where the digitalisation can lead us in vacuum metrology and service? |
| 15:00 | Karsten Danzmann | MPI-G | Shaking the vacuum: Gravitational waves |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
The perspective from industry and users
| 16:00 | Martin Wüest | INFICON AG | How vacuum gauges have to look like in the future? |
| 16:30 | Kees Feenstra | ASML | The past and future role of vacuum for the semiconductor industry |
| 17:00 | Karl Jousten | PTB | Summary and Farewell speech |
| >17:30 | BBQ until 21:00 |
