The 2009 Cryogenic Engineering Conference/International Cryogenic Materials Conference brought together almost 500 persons from all areas of cryogenics to exchange technology and ideas. Held June 28-July 2 at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, the conference consisted of technical papers and posters as well as several timely plenary sessions and included a cryogenic exhibition.
Three new members were elected to the CEC board: Franklin Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kathleen Amm, GE Global Research, and Ray Radebaugh, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). CEC officers are Melora Larson, JPL, President; Thomas Nicol, Fermilab, Vice President; Jay Theilacker, Fermilab, Secretary and Registered Agent, and John Pfotenhauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Treasurer.
For the upcoming 2011 CEC/ICMC in Spokane WA, CEC officers and committees will be: Chairman, Al Zeller, NSCL, MSU; Program Chair, James Fesmire, NASA Kennedy Cryogenics Test Laboratory; Assistant Chair, Miller; Cryogenic Exhibition/Publicity committee Chair, John Urbin, Linde Cryogenics, a Division of Linde Process Plants, Inc.; Chief Technical Editor, John Weisend II, SLAC; Awards committee Chair, Steven Van Sciver, NHMFL, FSU; Radebaugh, Klaus Timmerhaus; Nominating committee chair, Nicol, Fermilab; Sponsorship committee Chair, Amm, Scholarship Chair, J. Patrick Kelley. For ICMC, Hiroaki Kumakura, Japan National Institute for Materials Science, is Board Chairman and will be ICMC2011 Chairman; Ken Marken, LANL, is Vice Chairman.
CSA held very successful Short Courses which attracted 72 attendees. Courses and instructors were Design of Optimal Helium Refrigeration and Liquefaction Systems, Rao Ganni and staff from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility; Fundamentals of Cryogenics, Steve Van Sciver and John Pfotenhauer; Cryocoolers and Microcryocoolers, Ray Radebaugh, and Introduction to Cryostat Design, Tom Peterson and John Weisend II.
On June 29, the ICMC Best paper Awards were presented to Potanina, Shikov, Vorobieva, Slunin, Medvedev, Bochvar Institute of Inorganic Materials, Moscow, and Keilin, Kovalev and Kruglov, NRC Kurchatov Institute for “Nb3SN and NbTi Multifilamentary Wires with Enhanced Heat Capacity (superconducting materials); and Ogata, National Institute of materials Science, Ibaraki, Japan, for “Hydrogen Embrittlement Evaluation in Tensile Properties of Stainless Steels at Cryogenic Temperatures” (structural materials).
At the Awards Breakfast on July 2, Ray Radebaugh received the prestigious Samuel C. Collins Award for “an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the identification and solution of cryogenic engineering problems and has…demonstrated a concern for the cryogenic community through unselfish professional service and leadership to this community.” Radebaugh recently retired from NIST, but is continuing in a consulting role with the institute.
In presenting the award, Peter Kittel noted that it has been given just 13 times since 1965. He noted that Radebaugh has produced 160 publications, has served on the boards of CEC and the International Cryocoolers Conference, served as CEC Chair in 1987, conducts popular and valued Short Courses, has consulted internationally, and has hosted many students and researchers in his laboratory.
Radebaugh said he was “greatly honored” and humbled by the award because Sam Collins has been a hero to him and it was an honor to receive the award named after him. Radebaugh said he has known about Collins since his high school days, when he experimented with cryogenics for a science fair project. He added that this was a good year to receive the award, since it is the 100th anniversary of the liquefaction of helium. He added that he was proud to join the prestigious group of past recipients.
The Russell B. Scott Awards for best papers published in “Advances in Cryogenic Engineering” went to William Little, MMR Technologies, Inc., for “Heat Transfer Efficiency of Kleemenko Cycle Heat Exchangers” (research) and to Isaac Garaway, NIST, and Gershon Grossman, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, for “A Study of a High Frequency Miniature Reservoir-less Pulse Tube Cryocooler,” (engineering applications).
The ICMC Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing “a lifetime’s achievenemtn in advancing the knowledge of cryogenic materials” went to Professor Kyoji Tachikawa, Tokai University, Japan.
Student Meritorious Paper Awards went to: CEC: Jeffrey Boulware, Utah State University for “The Magnetohydrodynamic Response of Liquid Oxygen.” For ICMC: Shreyas Balachandran of Texas A&M University for “Fine Grained Nb for Internal Tin Nb3SN Conductors.”
The CEC Timmerhaus Scholarship was awarded to Michael J. Cheadle, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research funded by the scholarship focuses on improving the accuracy of pulse tube cryocooler performance models by improving the underlying correlations that are used to represent the fluid-to-matrix thermal-fluid interactions.
Tomiyoshi Haruyama, Editor of the journal Cryogenics, presented Sylvie Fuzier and Steve Van Sciver with the 2008 Best Paper Award for their paper entitled “Experimental Measurements and Modeling of Transient Heat Transfer in Forced Flow He II at High Velocities,” published in Cryogenics Vol. 48, 130 (2008).
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