Dear conference participants, 
My name is Emil Hazarian and I am the President of the Measurement Science Conference 2011.

On behalf of our Board of Directors, Conference Committee, and myself, I would like to invite you to our 2011 Measurement Science Conference Symposium and Workshops, at the Pasadena Convention Center, on March 14-18, 2011. The theme of this conference is: Metrology and Quality through Education.

It has been 41 years since this annual metrology organization brings together domestic and international professionals with one, and only one, objective in mind: to learn about metrology for a better life.
Measurement Science Conference has always been a platform for exchanging experience in the exhibits area, getting updates from NIST seminars, tutorials and hands-on workshops, showing your latest achievements through over 100 technical papers, and making new professional connections. 

We are also introducing this year, for the first time, the MSC Fall Tutorials. This new event will take place on October 21st, 2010, at Hyatt Regency hotel in Irvine, California.

Every conference, for the last 41 years, has been getting better and better, and that was possible only with your continuous active participation and the work of our volunteers.

As a professional organization, Measurement Science Conference is part of a larger, well established, domestic and global measurement system, starting with the customer, continuing with the equipment manufacturers and calibration laboratories, and finishing with national metrology institutes, our NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and international bodies such as BIPM, Le Bureau International des Poids et Measures, or International Bureau of Weights and Measures.

The measurement infrastructure and superstructure are aimed at providing uniformity, accuracy, and fairness in commercial transactions, through legal metrology, and global interchangeability in manufacturing through scientific metrology.

As we work out every day measurement tribulations, we also keep an eye in the future for societal advancements. Technological challenges, such as new unconventional sources of energy and environmental obstacles, are overcame, only with the help of measurements, from the simplest to the state-of-the-art. This is where Measurement Science Conference comes into the picture, to facilitate the education in metrology and quality, or as Galileo Galilei stated in the XVII Century: 

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”

See you in 2011, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Emil Hazarian, President ~ Measurement Science Conference