Workshop: Impact of the cryogen free revolution and new cooling technologies

The impact of cryogen-free revolution and new cooling technologies: Friday 15th

Organiser: H Godfrin

The advent of 4 K cryocoolers has led to a new generation of very low temperature refrigerators (dilution, magnetic, nanorefrigerators, etc…). The aim of this mini-workshop, scheduled as a plenary session, is to present the status of the field and to discuss with a "round table" of experts, designers, manufacturers and users, the new possibilities offered by these novel technologies.

There will be short presentations by the leading researchers in this field (covering pulse-tube DRs, magnetic cooling and nanocooling):

• Kurt Uhlig (Walther-Meissner-Institute)
• Vladimir Mikheev (Oxford Instruments)
• Jeremy Good (Cryogenic)
• Oleg Kirichek (STFC)
• Mikko Paalanen (Helsinki)
• Henri Godfrin (CNRS-Grenoble)
• Kurt Haselwimmer (Dryogenic)
• Giorgio Frossati (Leiden)

Other users of these technologies will be encouraged to make very brief presentations, or simply participate in the debate.