The CSA and CEC/ICMC awards were presented on Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Spokane at the Awards Banquet. More details and photos are available in the 2011 CEC/ICMC photo gallery and in the Summer issue of Cold Facts.
Cryogenic Society of America (CSA) Awards
Fellow of the Cryogenic Society of America
Dr. Peter Mason, ret. JPL, California Institute of Technology
Excellence in Cryogenic Research
Dr. Jeffrey Feller, NASA Ames Research Center
George T. Mulholland Award for Excellence in Cryogenic Engineering
Kelly Dixon, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
CEC/ICMC Awards
The 2011 Samuel C. Collins Award
Professor Chaosheng Hong, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (in absentia)
The 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor René Flükiger, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
The 2011 CEC Student Meritorious Paper Award
“Analytical Model for a Pulse Tube Cryocooler Bellows Phase Shifter and Experimental Results”
M. J. Cheadle, G. F. Nellis, and S. A. Klein
The student author to whom the award is presented is M. J. Cheadle, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
The 2011 ICMC Student Meritorious Paper Award
“Cryogenic Properties of Hollow Glass Microsphere/Epoxy Composite”Z. X. Wu, R. J. Huang, X. X. Chu, C. J. Huang, and L. F. Li
The student author to whom the award is presented is Z. Wu, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
CEC – Russell B. Scott Memorial Award
The Cryogenic Engineering Conference board has established the Russell B. Scott Memorial Award to recognize the best paper(s) published in Advances of Cryogenic Engineering. Awardees will be selected from the CEC papers presented at the 2009 Conference in Tucson, Arizona, published in the Advances of Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 55 B (2010).
The committee has selected the following Best Research Paper:
“Heat transfer characteristics of four film boiling modes around a horizontal cylindrical heater in He II”
pp. 1335-1342
S. Takada, M. Murakami and N. Kimura
The committee has selected the following Best Application Paper:
“LARP Nb3Sn quadrupole magnets for the LHC luminosity upgrade”
pp. 1291-1300
P. Ferracin
ICMC – Best Paper Award
Best papers presented at the 2009 Tucson Conference and published in Advances of Cryogenic Engineering, Vol. 56 (2010) are:
Best Superconducting Materials Paper:
“Torsion Strain Effects on Critical Currents of HTS Superconducting Tapes”
pp. 337-344
M. Takayasu, J. V. Minervini, and L. Bromberg
Best Structural Materials Paper:
“Thermal Properties of Silicon Nitride Beams Below 1 Kelvin” pp. 75-82
G. Wang, V. Yefremenko, V. Novosad, A. Datesman, J. Pearson, G. Shustakova, R. Divan, C. Chang, J. McMahon, L. Bleem, A. T. Crites, T. Downes, J. Mehl, S. S. Meyer, and J. E. Carlstrom
CEC – Klaus and Jean Timmerhaus Scholarship Award
Mark Howard Vanderlaan, Florida State University
Cryogenics – Best Paper 2010
I. Catarino, J. Afonso, D. Martins, M. Linder, L. Duband and G. Bonfait “6 K solid state Energy Storage Unit.”
