Every three years, ASME and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sponsor the Symposium on Thermophysical Properties. The K-7 Committee is responsible for the general oversight and planning for the Symposium. The most recent syposium was the 16th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, which was held on June 25 - 30, 2000 in Boulder, Colorado on the University of Colorado Campus. The 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties is scheduled for June 21 - 29, 2009 on the University of Colorado Campus in Boulder, Colorado.
The areas of thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and solids are broadly represented in the symposium. Special topics covered in the past symposia include: acoustic, optical, photothermal, and subsecond techniques of measuring thermophysical properties; materials of strong technological interest, namely molten materials, natural gas, thin films, refrigerants, polymer solutions, and supercritical fluids; properties for chemical and metallurgical process design; fundamental topics such as molecular simulation of fluid behavior, critical behavior, properties in low gravity, shear effects on property measurement, structure of fluids, wetting and interfaces; and property data, including demonstrations of databases.