50 Years of Dilution Refrigeration, Manchester, 16 September 2015
Rutherford Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building, University of Manchester (M13 9PL)
11:00-11:30 Arrival and coffee
11:30 Welcome address by Stephen Watts (Head of School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester).
11:45 Rudolf de Bruyn-Ouboter (Leiden) The beginning of dilution refrigeration in Leiden.
12:15 Peter Ford (Bath) The principles behind the helium dilution refrigerator and its first success at Manchester – a personal reflection.
12:45 Oscar Vilches (Seattle) John Wheatley and his first dilution refrigerators.
13:15-14:00 Buffet lunch
14:00 George Pickett (Lancaster) Dilution refrigerators for millikelvin temperatures.
14:25 Vladimir Mikheev (Oxford) Dilution refrigerators with cryogenic cycle circulation and adsorption pumping.
14:50 Tapio Niinikoski (CERN, retired) Powerful dilution refrigerators for particle physics experiments.
15:15 Kurt Uhlig (Garching) Cryogen-free dilution refrigerators.
15:40 Alan Benoit (Grenoble) Dilution cooling for space applications.
16:05-16:35 Coffee break
16:35 Graham Batey (Oxford Instruments) 50 years of continuous innovation of ultra low temperature research tools.
17:00 Andrey Penzev (Cryogenic Ltd) Dilution Refrigerators with Superconducting Magnets.
17:30 Closing comments (Andrei Golov, Manchester)
17:45 Conference closed