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Microkelvin 2010

MICROKELVIN MID-TERM REVIEW

GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND USER MEETING 2010

(You can download this information as a pdf-file HERE)

Time:

October 15-16, 2010

Venue:

Room 228, Low Temperature Laboratory of Aalto University,

Puumiehenkuja 2B, Espoo, Finland

Chairman:

Matti Krusius, Low Temperature Laboratory, <mkrusius(at)neuro.hut.fi>, ph. +358503442578

Secretary:

Sari Laitila, Low Temperature Laboratory, <laitila(at)neuro.hut.fi>, ph. +358503442614

Accommodation:

Hotel Radisson Blu, Otaranta 2, Otaniemi, Espoo, ph. +358201234705

10 min walking distance from the Laboratory

Documentation:

documents prepared on MicroKelvin Collaboration are available on site http://www.microkelvin.eu/documentation.php

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 14.10.2010

15:00 – 19:00 Discussions in the Cryohall for early arrivals (please, agree in advance)

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner, Hotel RADISON BLU, Espoo, Otaranta 2

Friday, 15.10.2010

Mid-term Review and General Assembly Meeting
Achievements, delivery dates, dissemination, financial status, observations (15+5 min)
Chairman Matti Krusius

09:00 – 09:20 EU FP7 Research Infrastructures Programme, Project Officer Maria Douka

09:20 – 09:40 MicroKelvin, Matti Krusius

09:40 – 10:00 Networking Activities, Henri Godfrin

10:00 – 10:20 Joint Research Activity1, George Pickett

10:20 – 10:40 Joint Research Activity2, Jukka Pekola

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee in the Laboratory

11:10 – 11:30 Joint Research Activity3, Henri Godfrin

11:30 – 11:50 Joint Research Activity4, Christian Enss

11:50 – 12:10 Recommendations:

Maria Douka, Project Officer

Konstantin Arutyunov, External Reviewer

Kimitoshi Kono, Advisory Board Member

MicroKelvin Activity Leaders

12:10 – 12:30 Questions & discussion

12:30 – 13:00 General Assembly Meeting: chairman George Pickett
decisions & recommended actions for next period

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch in cafeterias on campus

14:00 – 15:00 Coffee in the Laboratory
Group photograph session of Meeting Participants (Laboratory, Atrium)

User Meeting I, Low Temperature Measurement
User reports (25+5 min), chairman Tero Heikkilä

15:00 – 15:30 Progress towards microkelvin temperatures in nanoscale samples
(progress report) Dominik Zumbuhl, University of Basel

15:30 – 16:00 Microwave experiments at dilution refrigerator temperatures
Jurgen Smet, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart

16:00 – 16:30 A cold and soft resonator in a cryogen free dilution refrigerator
(progress report) Tjerk Oosterkamp, Leiden University

16:30 – 17:00 Electronic cooling of superconducting resonators
Nathan Vercruyssen, Technische Universiteit Delft

17:00 - 17:30 Quantum fluctuations in superconducting nanostructures
Konstantin Arutyunov, Jyväskylä University

Visit BlueFors Cryogenics, Industrial partner

17:30 Departure from the Laboratory

18:00 – 19:00 Pulse tube cooler applications, dilution refrigeration, and nuclear cooling
Rob Blaauwgeers, Tauno Knuuttila, and Pieter Vorselman

19:30 - Dinner, Tapiola Garden Hotel (20 min walking distance from Radisson Blu)

Saturday, 16.10.2010

Topological Insulators: Plan for a concerted research effort within MicroKelvin
Chairman Nikolai Kopnin

09:00 – 09:40 Superfluid 3He as a model for topological insulators
Grigory Volovik, LTL, Aalto University

09:40 – 10:20 Search for the Majorana fermion surface state at a free surface
Kimitoshi Kono, Riken

10:20 – 11:00 The quest for Marjorana fermions in superfluid 3He confined in
regular nano-scale geometries
John Saunders, Royal Holloway, University of London

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee in the Laboratory

11:30 – 12:00 Search for the Majorana surface state with measurements of magnetic relaxation in
Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons in 3He-B
Vladimir Eltsov, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University

12:00 – 12:30 Search for the Majorana surface state with vibrating wire measurements in 3He-B
Viktor Tsepelin, Lancaster University

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch in the Laboratory

User Meeting II, Superfluid helium in T -> 0 limit
User and progress reports (25+5 min), chairman Risto Hänninen

13:30 - 14:00 Novel experiments on quasiparticle and spin dynamics in superfluid 3He-B
in the T -> 0 limit at Lancaster Microkelvin facility
(user report) Peter Skyba, SAS, Kosicé

14:00 – 14:30 Structure of propagating turbulent front in superfluid 3He – from direct observation of
quasiparticle emission
(user report) Victor L´vov, Weizmann Institute

14:30 – 15:00 Decay of vortex tangles in superfluid 4He at low temperatures
(user report) Andrei Golov, Manchester University

15:00 – 15:30 Decay of vortex tangles in superfluid 3He-B at low temperatures
(progress report) Shaun Fisher, Lancaster University

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee in the Laboratory

User Meeting III, current activities of MicroKelvin Collaboration
Chairman Juha Tuoriniemi

16:00 – 16:20 The Entropy GmbH
Kevin Phelan, The Entropy GmbH, Munich, Germany