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Fermilab Director Pier Oddone as been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and independent policy research center. Oddone joins Fermilab scientists Bill Bardeen and Helen Edwards in receiving this honor.
To honor 50 years in the business, FIBA Technologies, Inc. was featured in a 15-page magazine insert in the Worcester MA Business Journal. FIBA serves industrial and specilaty gas and chemical companies that use intermodal, high-pressure gas and cryogenic products globally.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory became the world's most powerful source of pulsed neutrons when its beam reached 310 kilowatts in late January. This record nearly doubled the 163-watt record held by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, England. Oak Ridge now holds the Guinness World Record.
Fermilab Today reported that, "A new posse in town has its sights set on Fermilab's feathery fowl. Patrols of the laboratory will continue randomly through April in an effort to address safety issues related to the laboratory's resident goose population." - More -
A US Postal Stamp commemorating the late UI physics Professor John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor and a two-time Nobel Prize Winner, was officially issued at Postage Stamp Mega-Event in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was sponsored by the Postal service, the American Stamp Dealers Association and the American Philatetic Society. - More -
The "Ganni Cycle", invented by engineers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, has been saving Brookhaven National Laboratory approximately $50,000 a week in electric costs for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Venkatarao Ganni was the primary inventor of the Ganni Cycle, which improved the RHIC's cryogenic system's reliability, availability, stability and efficiency.
Two French inventors have developed and patented an air separation cryogenic liquid sampling method. David Meneses of Paris and Jean-Yves Lehman of Maisons Alfort developed "a system for sampling cryogenic liquids, and an air separation unit provided with at least one such system," according to the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Actor Thomas Glenn and Director Peter Sellars recently made a visit to Fermilab to learn more about Robert Wilson, Fermilab's founding director. Glenn plays the role of a young Wilson in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's "Dr. Atomic." "For a character like this, there is only so much that you can learn from books," Glenn told Fermilab Today. "To actually go and see where he lived, to see the product of his mind--that made a big impact on me."
Essex Cryogenics of Missouri has been awarded a $172,558 contract by the US Navy for the maintenance, repair and rebuilding of equipment.
A division of Taylor-Wharton International has announced that sales of its high pressure cylinder operations have surpassed $15 million. TW Cylinders LLC produces ISO/EN specification cylinders in Huntsville AL and Harrisburg PA.
GenCorp Inc. company Aerojet has been awarded a contract from NASA Glenn Research Center for the development of a 5,500lbf Liquid Oxygen-Liquid Methane engine. Liquid-Oxygen Liquid-Methane propulsion systems have been identified as a promising option for future space vehicles.
NASA awarded a contract extension to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. company. The extension will allow the company to continue development of the Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE), in an effort to support future lunar landing development.
Aqua Cure Ltd., Buffalo NY, has been awarded a $131,430 contract by the US Air Force for cryogenic vaporizers.
During the AAAS meeting held on February 18, 2008, Norman R. Augustine shared some challenging and interesting insight into the alarming state of science and technology research and education in the United States. Augustine was part of the “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” project commissioned by Congress to study American competitiveness in science and technology and served as the president of Martin Marietta Aerospace Corporation between 1986 and 1987. Click on the following link to read a transcription of the entire talk, entitled: "A New Export: Our Standard of Living." - More -
The Tevatron set a new record on Monday, March 17, 2008 when it produced more particle collisions per second than ever before. Breaking the barrier of 3E32 for the first time, the Tevatron reached a record peak luminosity of 3.15 E32 cm -2 sec -1. The record came on the heels of a week that had seven stores with peak luminosities between 2.36 and 2.85E32.
The 27th Annual Cryogenic Engineering Summer Short Course will be offered by Dr. Thomas Flynn on the beautiful University of Colorado at Boulder campus on August 4-7, 2008. This four-day short course will be sponsored by the Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education(CAETE).
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Wild turkeys have become a problem at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. The turkeys are roaming around the property, breaking windows, defecating and intimidating employees. The group of turkeys, now reaching at least 60, have become such a nuisance that the lab called on the California Department of Fish and Game for help. According to the department, there are almost a quarter million wild turkeys in California alone.
Professor Marja Makarow recently began her duties as Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation and is the first woman in the organization's 34-year history to hold the top position. Makarow has been in positions of trust in a number of national and intergovernmental research funding and performing organizations in Europe over the past decade. Professor Makarow succeeded Dr. John Marks for the top post.
In efforts to revamp its organizational structure, Matheson-Trigas chose William Kroll for the position of Chairman, effective January 1, 2008. Formerly the Chief Executive Officer, Kroll will now oversee the Research and Development group, Tri-Gas Techologies and Strategic Marketing.
CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Air Liquide supplied approximately 5,000 cubic meters of helium gas to an airship that carried Jean-Louis Etienne to the North Pole for a crossing of the Arctic Ocean. The company has been a long-time partner of the French physician and explorer and will continue to provide their helium expertise to the project.
An underground storage cavern integrated into Praxair's hydrogen pipeline will begin to supply hydrogen to customers during periods of planned and unplanned peak demand. Increases in the demand for Praxair's hydrogen are expected, in the range of 15-20 percent per year through 2010, due to new EPA regulations and the increasing volumes of high-sulfur crude oil being processed by refineries.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City has been collecting and freezing tissue samples from fauna all over the world. These samples are stored in this five-year-old frozen tissue lab in vats kept below -150°C. The museum's cryogenic storage system will eventually accommodate more than half a million vials of frozen tissue. The samples will be catalogued and added to an online database that will be available to scientists around the world.
The Pierre Auger Collaboration correlation between active galactic nuclei and the highest energy rays that hit earth was on the top of the list of breakthrough stories for three national media organizations in 2007. The journal Science, Nature magazine and the American Institute of Physics all named the Fermilab-related experiment as one of the best stories of the year.
Aerojet has completed developmental testing of an innovative cryogenic oxygen/methane Reaction Control Engine (RCE). The company, an aerospace and defense business unit of GenCorp Inc., has completed over 135 tests of the reaction control engine for NASA's Propulsion Cryogenic Advanced Development (PCAD) project of the Exploration Technology Development Program.
The Indian Space Research Organization recently began testing cryogenic engines that were designed after the renegotiation of an agreement with Russia to purchase the engines. The engines use cryogenic fuels that are super-cooled to around -250°. The testing of the engine signals India's entry into a new phase of space rocketry.
EnFlow Cryogenics, available from Holox, targets Atlanta-area businesses seeking a nitrogen and argon supply delivery alternative to high pressure or liquid cylinders. EnFlow replaces cylinders and dewars with remotely monitored, on-site low-pressure storage tanks to provide uninterrupted nitrogen and/or argon supply.
Gill Southern, sister of Paul Rowe, has joined CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Wessington Cryogenics as a Director, involved in all areas including customer relationship management, marketing and sales. She brings expertise in lean business management, productivity improvement techniques, HR and personnel.
Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer will take over as CERN’s next Director-General in 2009. Heuer was formerly the research director for the national particle physics program at DESY in 2004. He will now focus his efforts on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the International Linear Collider.
The US Postal Services has announced that theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908-1991) is among four scientists chosen to be honored when new American Scientist stamps are issued in April. Bardeen collaborated on the first fundamental explanation of superconductivity at low temperatures. Also featured in the stamp series are biochemist Gerty Cori, astronomer Edwin Hubble and structural chemist Linus Pauling.
Dr. Alex P. Malozemoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at American Superconductor Corporation recently became an IEEE Fellow for leadership in the development of vortex dynamics of high temperature superconductors.
Chart has promoted Hans Lonsain to Chairman and Managing Director of Chart Ferox, Chart’s European Distribution and Storage business. Lonsain was previously responsible for sales and marketing for Chart Ferox in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Amato Spagnoletti has been appointed Vice President-North American Sales at Chart Industries, Inc., a CSA Corporate Sustaining Member. Spagnoletti joined Chart in 1998 and was most recently the Director of Sales, Engineered Systems.
CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Eden Cryogenics, LLC recently hired Allan G. Hanson as Senior Engineer. Hanson is experienced in several industries, including Aerospace, Filtration, Plastics and Process development. Hanson’s responsibilities at Eden include vacuum insulated pipe design, pressure vessel design and project management for a variety of applications.
Also at Acme, Edward Haberern has been hired as Key Account Manager. Formerly employed as an Account Manager at Fab Operations Services, Haberern has extensive experience in client development, key account management and business process development.
CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Acme Cryogenics, Inc. has promoted Michael Dewey to the position of General Manager of Quality Cryogenics of Atlanta, LLC. Since 2000, Dewey has held positions as Sales Manager and as Project Engineer. As General Manager, he will maintain sales management responsibilities in addition to managing all aspects of the company.
Oxford Superconducting Technology and Alstom Magnets and Superconductors have announced the creation of an alliance to collaborate to supply conductors to ITER, one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. - More -
A banner from Coastal Studies for Girls, a science and leadership school, returned on November 7 from a trip into space on NASA’s shuttle Discovery. The school, based in Freeport ME, is expected to open by 2009 and will provide opportunities for high school sophomore girls to excel in science and technology. - More -
Paratherm has also hired Rich Clements as Sales Manager to oversee the current sales staff of technical representatives. He has twenty years of executive level sales management experience and has held positions as Product Director, Plant Manager and Plant Engineer.
Replacement thermal conductivity detectors (TCDs) for the Varian 3800 gas chromatograph (GC) are now available from GOW-MAC Instrument Company. Made of stainless steel, each detector meets original equipment specifications and comes with rhenium-tungsten (WX) filaments as standard. GOW-MAC also provides replacement filaments and new replacement TCDs for other major brand name gas chromatographs. Visit www.gow-mac.com.
Jim Oetinger has been appointed Director of Technology at Paratherm. Formerly the head of sales and technical functions, he now focuses on solving heat transfer problems and system issues from customers.
Construction of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), a new $1.2 billion particle accelerator, will begin in the German city of Darmstadt as part of a project by the German Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI). - More -
CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Linde Cryogenics sold their packaged gas business to Airgas Inc. at the close of business on June 30, 2007. With approval from antitrust authorities, the sale was made for an enterprise value of $310 million. Linde will retain certain packaged accounts, but will shift its focus to a higher content of application technology for US customer segments.
HYPRES, Inc. has made plans to build an all-digital receiver for SELEX Communications as part of their software defined radio. SELEX Communications is a leader in advanced mission-critical communications, as well as navigation and identification solutions. - More -
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to install Field Turf in their baseball facilities for the 2008 season. Created after years of research, Field Turf is a mix of silica, sand and cryogenically treated rubber. Its patented layering process produces a surface that emulates natural grass. Improved player safety, reduced maintenance costs and flexibility for conversion are some of the benefits of Field Turf. Over 2,000 Field Turf installations have been performed in more than 45 countries in the last few years.
A contract has been finalized between CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Air Liquide and Cryogenmash, a manufacturer of transport tankers. According to the contract, Cryogenmash will produce transport tankers that use highly effective screen-vacuum insulation. These tankers will allow the delivery of liquid cryogenic products at temperatures up to -196°, and will transport up to 22 tons of liquefied technical gases, such as nitrogen, oxygen and argon.
CryoCath Technologies, Inc. recently announced a decision to sell their surgical portfolio to ATS Medical. CryoCath manufactures cryotherapy products for treating cardiac arrhythmias. - More -
A brief ceremony in Geneva on November 7, 2007 marked the latest milestone for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. - More -
Two scientists, Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko, have joined Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Nanoscale Materials. Rozhkova most recently worked as a Research Associate in the Biological Division at the University of Chicago. Shevchenko previously worked as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
American Superconductor Corporation and TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company announced the formation of a research joint venture to develop high temperature superconductor (HTS) and related technologies for high-power, direct drive wind generators for offshore wind farms. An award from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) will provide $3.4 million in funding toward the $6.8 million research project.
Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has granted FIBA Technologies, Inc. approval of Manufacturer Certificate No. T-1142, which approves FIBA for the manufacturing of seamless gas bottles and pressure vessels of Class I and II. FIBA is one of only four companies in the world to be granted this approval.
Carl T. Johnson, former president of The Compressed Gas Association, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to be Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration at the Department of Transportation.
CSA Technical Director James Fesmire was recently promoted to the position of Senior Principal Investigator at the NASA Kennedy Cryogenics Test Laboratory.
A funding crisis at a leading research council in the UK, The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has forced the country to pull out of plans for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The ILC, which will collide beams of electrons and positrons, is being planned as the next accelerator following the Large Hadron Collider, and is set to come online at CERN in 2008. Physicists in the UK are furious, and see this action as killing off years of investment, according to a Dec. 11, 2007, article in Physics World.
Wind Point Partners, a private equity investment firm, announced on December 10, 2007, the acquisition of the Harsco GasServ group of gas technology businesses from Harsco Corporation. The acquisition includes Taylor-Wharton, compressed gas cylinders and cryogenic storage vessels; American Welding & Tank, propane tanks; Structural Composites Industries, filament wrapped composite cylinders and Sherwood precision valve products. The four complementary businesses will operate collectively as Taylor-Wharton International (TWI) and form the world’s leading technology, service and manufacturing network for gas applications involving pressure vessels and precision valves.
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Hydrogen rocket technologies prepare for lift-off. An engine which is fueled by a mix of liquid oxygen and hydrogen has been developed to demonstrate advanced rocket technologies for future space vehicles, such as lunar vehicles, and has achieved a technical milestone in throttling capability. Designed to reveal successful throttling from full power to 10 percent of its thrust, the Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) was built off the design of the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL10 engine which has a proven history of performance. - More -
WSE, Inc., doing business as Cryogenic Craftsmen Co., Brookfield IL, seeks buyers for the business. Contact James Love, Founder of WSE, Inc. at 708/485-2060, or jim@cryogeniccraftsmen.com. More information.
Jefferson Lab Achieves Critical Milestone Toward Construction of $310-Million Upgrade Project
A proposed $310-million project that will double the energy of the electron beam at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) achieved a critical milestone on November 9, 2007, when the Department of Energy approved the project’s performance baseline.
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The Cryogenic Engineering Conference elected the following as new board members: Dr. Al Zeller, National Superconducting Synchrotron, Michigan State University, academia; John Urbin, Linde BOC Process Plants, industry, and James Fesmire, NASA Kennedy Cryogenics Test Laboratory, government. All three are CSA board members; Zeller is CSA Treasurer.
The Linear Collider Forum of America (LCFOA) has elected Dr. Terry Grimm of Niowave and John Urbin of Linde BOC Process Plants to their Board of Directors. Urbin is a CSA board member and Grimm, a CSA member, received the prestigious Boom award from the Society.
Persis Drell has been appointed acting director at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC); she was formerly deputy director. She succeeds Jonathan Dorfan who becomes assistant to the president, focusing on the relationship between Stanford University and SLAC.
The miniseries Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold aired in late July on British BBC4 to rave reviews. It will air on primetime PBS on January 8 and 15, 2008 at 8:00 PM (check local listings) as part of the Nova science program. "This was an engaging tale of human endeavor and frailty, a century-spanning trial of magnificent commitment and even greater disappointment," said reviewer Paul Whitelaw.
CSA member John Moeller, a cryogenic engineering consultant and owner, Trinity Technology, has published his personal account of the early days of the US space program, "From Malabar to the Moon," a hardcover book. Order, at $17.50 each, from Trinity Technology Inc., 300 Lawton Blvd., Knoxville TN 37034, 865/ 866-5669, jamoeller1@juno.com
Phillip L. Korodi has joined Eden Cryogenics as Senior Designer. He has had an extensive career in the cryogenic industry. At Eden he will be responsible for vacuum insulated piping design and development over a variety of applications, including turnkey cryogenic systems.
Eden Cryogenics, LLC has named Michael Dent Director of Business Development, responsible for business development of major cryogenic and vacuum engineered systems and equipment. He has held leadership roles in business development of aluminum heat exchangers and extrusions for various manufacturing sectors and the processing of PVB and EVA chemical products.
Long-time CSA member Craig Morton has retired from Air Liquide America Corporation, and after a 43-year career in industrial gas industry is available as a consultant. Contact him at ccmorton@aol.com.
Mayo Clinic researchers report that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation shows promise for patients who are not good candidates for surgery. Their early findings showing short-term success in more than 90 percent of selected patients are published in the journal Radiology.
New company Cryox Limited was started in July 2007 on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus by CLIK, the technology transfer arm of the UK Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organizations supporting scientists and engineers world-wide. The role of Cryox is to exploit cryogenic technology deriving from research done at STFC laboratories. Contact John Vandore, Managing Director, j.vandore@rl.c.uk.
The 2008 Applied Superconductivity Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, August 17 - 22, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. This exciting and informative meeting will highlight the latest developments in the field of superconductivity. Visit the ASC 2008 website www.ascinc.org/ to download the Call for Papers (pdf) at www.ascinc.org/uploads/CallForPapers.pdf and
submit your abstract. February 1, 2008 is the abstract submission deadline. Check the ASC 2008 website often for frequent updates regarding registration, abstract submission, hotel reservations, the city of Chicago, and many other items of interest to conference attendees.
Absolute Zero, a two-part documentary on the study of low temperatures, will premiere on PBS on January 8th and 15th, 2008 at 8:00 (check local listings). Based largely on Tom Shachtman’s acclaimed book, Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, the documentaries will explore key concepts, significant individuals and events in the field of low-temperature physics and the enormous impact that the mastery of cold has had on society through such technologies as air conditioning, refrigeration and liquefied gases.
The world's first significant delivery of 2G wire was made possible by SuperPower and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who were selected to receive a 2007 R&D 100 Award. From R&D 100 Magazine, September 2007: "The SuperPower/ORNL High-Performance, LMOe-HTS Wire is the culmination of several years of research aimed at developing a superconducting cable that can replace copper cables in the U.S. power grid. In addition to having a high current-carrying capacity, the LMOe-HTS wire is flexible, strong, economical, and can be mass-produced in useful (km-long) lengths."
The world's largest vacuum chamber has been built by NASA Plum Brook. The vacuum chamber, called the Space Power Facility, resides at NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky OH. It measures 100 feet in diameter and towers at 122 feet tall. Its immense size and ability to simulate the vacuum of space make it ideal for testing the Orion crew exploration vehicle.
W. Vincent Liu, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, is the winner of the 2007 Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association.
Dr. Steven Van Sciver, the John Gorrie Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering and a founding member of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, became just the fifth member of the Cryogenic Society of America to be named a fellow.
Dr. David Larbalestier, Director of Florida State University's Applied Superconductivity Center, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC) on July 17 in Chattanooga.
The prestigious IEEE Council on Superconductivity award for continuing and significant contributions in the field of applied superconductivity was awarded to Dr. Lucio Rossi of CERN for his "significant and sustained contributions" on large scale applications. The award was presented at the 20th International Conference on Magnet Technology held in Philadelphia from August 27-31, 2007.
We are sorry to report the death of Art Francis, an expert in Helium, and long-time member of the Cryogenic Society of America.
The deadline for receipt of nominations for the Roger W. Boom Award is December 1, 2007. The award, created by the Cryogenic Society of America in honor of Roger W. Boom, emeritus professor from the University of Wisconsin, is given to a young professional who "shows promise for making significant contributions to the fields of cryogenic engineering or applied superconductivity". - More -
The world of cryogenics lost a distinguished and dear friend on Sunday, June 17. Dr. Herby Sixsmith, 93, of Norwich, VT died at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, NH.
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Air Liquide has recently named Michael Graff as President and CEO of Air Liquide USA LLC and a director of US subsidiary businesses.
Michael Bright has joined CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Chart Industries as President of Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc. Maninder (Tony) Sethi has recently joined Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc. in the newly created position of Vice President, General Manager - Process Systems.
Taylor Wharton celebrated the grand opening of the company's new cryogenic manufacturing operations near Beijing, China. The new facility will produce a wide range of large cryogenic bulk tanks for the Asian and Pacific markets.
Air Products has announced plans to expand its industrial gas production facilities at both its Ashland KY and Reidsville NC facilities.
John Jones, Air Products chairman and chief executive officer, will retire as CEO on October 1, 2007, after 35 years. The Board of Directors has appointed John McGlade, currently president and chief operating officer, to succeed Jones as CEO. McGlade also has been elected a director of the company effective immediately. Jones will continue as Chairman of the Board until March 31, 2008, to provide for an orderly transition of responsibilities. Jones has been responsible for company operations since becoming president in 1998 and CEO and chairman in 2000.
CSA member Dr. Mark Bird has been officially named Director of Florida State University's Magnet Science and Technology Group.
Eden Cryogenics, LLC and Niowave, Inc. have announced a teaming agreement to better serve customers and product needs for the Superconducting Particle Accelerator and National Laboratory markets. The companies' agreement provides for a cooperative effort to join forces for projects requiring experience, facilities and capabilities not available through a single supplier. The firms will maintain their individual corporate identity and individuality but engage in complete cooperation for specialized projects.
David Larbalestier, the director of FSU’s Applied Superconductivity Center (www.magnet.fsu.edu/magnettechnology/research/asc/overview.html), has been selected to receive the Cryogenic Materials Award for Lifetime Achievements 2007 from the International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC). He will be presented with the award during a meeting of the conference on Tuesday, July 17, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The ATLAS Barrel Toroid, the largest magnet every built, has successfully been powered up to its nominal operating conditions at the first attempt. Named for its shape, this magnet provides a powerful magnetic field for ATLAS, one of the major particle detectors being prepared to take data at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator scheduled to turn on in November 2007. The ATLAS Barrel Toroid consists of eight superconducting coils, each in the shape of a round-cornered rectangle, 5m wide, 25 m long and weighing 100 tonnes, all aligned to millimeter precision. It will work with other magnets in ATLAS to bend the paths of charged particles produced in collisions at the LHC, enabling important properties to be measured. Some 1800 scientists from 165 universities and laboratories representing 35 countries are building the ATLAS detector and preparing to take data next year. (February 2007)
Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that after 10 years of work, the world's most powerful pulsed, non-destructive magnet is ready for use at 85 Tesla, Associated Press reported. A Tesla is a measuring unit for magnetic fields. Researchers can join low temperatures with a strong magnetic field to inspect materials at a nanometer scale, a billionth of a meter. The magnet is expected to be used to study large organic molecules, such as drugs. Alex Lacerda, leader of the National High Magnetic Field-Los Alamos Center said that the magnet has already achieved 87.8 Tesla and is expected to reach 100 Tesla during its lifetime. (February 2007)
Eden Energy, Ltd. has announced a global re-alignment of its world wide organization, including corporate name changes, facility moves and the advancement of key personnel, in order to focus on key customer segments and capture future global growth opportunities. This includes a name change for Brehon Cryogenics, LLC, to Eden Cryogenics, LLC, moving the organization into a new, modern engineering and manufacturing facility as of January 2, 2007, and the promotion of Steve L. Hensley from general manager to company president. (January 2007)
The Cryogenic Engineering Conference Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for the CEC Timmerhaus Scholarship Award. Qualified graduate students involved in cryogenic studies are encouraged to apply. The scholarship winner will be announced at the awards luncheon during the upcoming CEC meetings, which will be held in Chattanooga during the week of July 16th, 2007. Additional information such as eligibility requirements for candidates, and application forms for the CEC Timmerhaus Scholarship may be obtained on the CECSF Web site, www.cecsf.org. The application deadline is April 30, 2007. (April 2007)
Gladstone Investment Corp., Acme Cryogenics’ Senior Management Team, and Brant Point Partners bought controlling interest in Acme Cryogenics, Inc. from founder Roderic Fink. Along with this new acquisition, Frank Hartzell has been promoted to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Acme Cryogenics, Inc. and effective December 2006, Michael Brown has joined Acme as Director of Sales and Marketing. (February 2007)
Praxair, Inc. celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding and its 15th year as a publicly-traded corporation on January 24, 2007.
The inauguration of the new Linde Hydrogen Center in Munich-Unterschleissheim in October marked Linde AG's commitment and support to a hydrogen economy. Linde AG and partners TOYOTA, Symrise, SolviCore and ET Energie Technologie presented an innovation the following day: the odorization of hydrogen. Gasodor gives hydrogen a warning odor, significant for the safe use of the gas.
Carnegie Mellon University's Yoed Rabin is leading an interdisciplinary research team in developing a new computerized research tool to assist surgeons in planning cryosurgery. The new software will recommend the nest number and placement for the cryoprobes used in cryosurgery, provide surgeons with three-dimensional images of simulated cryosurgeries and train cryosurgeons.
NHMFL has received an $11.7 million National Science Foundation grant to build an innovative, next-generation hybrid resistive/superconducting magnet that will potentially revolutionize a technique used to learn more about little-understood molecules.
Barber-Nichols celebrated its 40th anniversary with an open house for customers, employees, vendors and alumni.
BSD Medical Corp. has introduced a radical new use of MRI to treat cancer called the BDS-2000/3D/MR. The hybrid system was developed through joint efforts of BSD Medical Corp., Charite Medical School in Berlin and Siemens Medical Systems.
A study published in the May 14 British Journal of Cancer reported that the synergistic effect of pairing cryosurgery (freezing cells to destroy them) and chemotherapy may lead to a powerful new form of cancer treatment that targets malignant cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed.
The anticipated 1,232 superconducting dipole magnets arrived on time for installation in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this fall. The LHC dipoles were produced by three industry providers: the French Alstom MSA-Jeumont Areva consortium, the Italian company AS-G (previously Ansaldo Superconducttori Genova) and the German firm Babcock Noell (previously BNN).
Air Products and Linde signed a Teaming Agreement to pursue refrigeration services for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). They hope to work together to provide, operate and maintain the cryogenic equipment for the ILC.
We regret to learn of the death of Louis Blum of Alloy Custom Products of Delphi IN, who passed away on October 8, 2006.
Chart Industries, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Chart Energy and Chemicals, Inc. has extended its Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchanger (BAHX) product line with the development and installation of an advanced new Welded Plate Heat Exchanger (WPX). The extended product line enables Chart E&C to offer solutions for high temperature and large temperature differentials that reach beyond the cryogenic applications serviced by its BAHX line. The new WPX are tolerant to thermal variances and cyclical operation.
A team of US scientists led by Petar Maksimovic, Assistant Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University, has discovered two new subatomic particles. The rare particles are important relatives of the proton and neutron and are members of the baryonic family, named for the Greek word barys, meaning heavy. Baryons are particles containing three quarks, which are the basic building blocks of matter. (January 2007)
Air Product's mobile hydrogen fueling technology helped fuel vehicles in Southern California from October 4 to 8, as part of the California Fuel Cell Partnership's Road Rally 2006. The five-day event took fuel cell technology on the road and helped teach the public about hydrogen as a fuel alternative. Air Products kept the vehicles powered as Road Rally 2006 moved from city to city.
Praxair, Inc. recently introduced a new, patented remote monitoring system for world-wide monitoring of cryogenic containers. The system will detect liquid level, temperature and pressure data in both the insulating layer of nitrogen and the helium inner vessel to ensure optimal cryogenic properties during shipment. The new technology enables remote readout and potential control of the container's arrival conditions during the stages of transportation.
Oy AGA Ab, a subsidiary of Linde, has acquired Messer Suomi Oy, the Finnish industrial gases company in the Messer Group. "The acquisition was a natural step for us when Messer decided to leave the Finnish market," said Pauli Toiviainen, Marketing and Sales Manager, Oy AGA Ab. He added the merger will have no disadvantages for customers.
"Due to the lack of synergies with other companies within Messer Group, management has decided to exit from Finland and dispose our shares in Messer Suomi Oy," said Stefan Messer, CEO and owner of Messer. For now, Messer Suomi Oy will continue its daily business and will be integrated in Oy AGA Ab over time.
CSA member John R. Hull has joined Boeing's Superconductivity, Electromagnetics Flywheel Energy Storage Phantom Works in Seattle. He was previously with Argonne National Laboratory.
John M. Ulliman has joined American Superconductor Corporation as vice president of Business Development and Government Relations. Ulliman was previously employed with Northrop Grumman Corporation.
The Sept.-Oct. issue of Police Fleet Manager commented: "Cryogenic rotors, using today's technology, are a legitimate solution for some agencies in preventing warped rotors. If you haven't looked at cryogenic rotors lately, you haven't looked at cryogenic rotors."
Flowserve Corp., a global provider of fluid motion and control products and services, received two awards at the Frost and Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards ceremony on September 26. The company was awarded the Frost and Sullivan's 2006 North American Growth Excellence in Customer Value Leadership Award in the pumps solutions market, and the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Global Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award. Vice President Eugene Levine accepted the awards for the company.
FIBA Technologies, Inc. received a Manufacture License of Special Equipment from The People's Republic of China, allowing it to export seamless pressure vessels, tubes, trailers and ISO containers into China. The license was granted following an audit of FIBA's Millbury MA facility and intensive testing of samples and pressure vessels.
Air Products has brought its fifth North American hydrogen facility on-steam this year. The hydrogen production facility at ExxonMobil Oil Corporation's Joliet Refinery in Illinois is the third in the US and is an integrated steam methane reformer and recovery system, processing refinery off-gas. It supplies 18 million standard cubic feet of hydrogen per day, as well as steam for its adjacent refinery.
CryoCath Technologies, a global leader in cryotherapy products that treat cardiovascular disease, has ranked 69 on Deloitte and Touche's Technology Fast 500 list, a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth from 2001 to 2005.
Applied Cryogenics and Mumbai-based DNP Global recently formed an agreement that will allow Applied Cryogenics to sell its cryogenic treatment plants in India. DNP Global will manage the sales and marketing of Applied Cryogenics' product line in India and provide full customer support for the region.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has made Rafael Breiler, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at FSU, a Fellow. Breiler was elected with 448 other members and will be recognized at the AAAS annual meeting on Feb. 17. Breiler acts as the associate director for biophysics and a member of the Science Council at Florida State’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. To learn more about the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the work that Breiler does there, visit the lab's Web site at www.magnet.fsu.edu. To visit the Science Web site, go to www.sciencemag.org.
National Stem Cell Holding, Inc.’s new subsidiary, National Stem Cell Laboratory Services, Inc., will manage the company’s umbilical cord blood bank initiative and augment the tissue banking and reproductive services. The director of development at the Baltimore-based subsidiary will be directed by Jacob Cohen, National Ste Cell COO and Ph.D.
HYPRES Inc., a developer of superconducting microelectronics (SME) technology, has successfully tested fabricated integrated circuits with a critical current density of 20 kiloamps per square centimeter. This major milestone puts HYPRES one step closer to its goal, as it builds the first all-digital transceiver (ADT) for wireless communications, capable of operation in clock speeds of more than 80 GHz . The ADT is being created for the Department of Defense.
The Fermi Research Alliance (FRA), LLC recently received a $1.575 billion, five-year contract for management and operation of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, from the U.S. Department of Energy. A new independent entity, FRA is owned jointly by the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association, Inc.
Administrators at the University of Chicago have bid on a management contract for Fermilab, a CSA Corporate Sustaining Member. They hope to build the International Linear Collider, a new multi-bullion dollar physics machine at Fermilab. Fermilab’s Tevatron is scheduled to shut down in 2010, at which time CERN will take the lead in particle physics unless the International Linear Collider is sited at Fermilab.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel printed an article on Sept. 18 about Dr. Michael Davidson, head of the Optical Microscopy Division at Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, a CSA Corporate Sustaining Member. The article highlighted his work in molecular level photography. Davidson provided the cover of the Fall 2004 issue of Cold Facts magazine.
Eduardo A.C. Drew Morales has recently been appointed Sales Representative for Latin America, for ACME Cryogenics, Inc., a Corporate Sustaining Member. Morales holds a ME degree, an MBA and 30 years of experience in the Industry, with a focus in Latin America. Morales also operates his own consulting firm.
CSA board member, James Fesmire, and former long-time board member Stan Augustynowicz recently received the ACE Gold Dollar Award from Mr. Jim Kennedy, Center Director of NASA Kennedy Space Center. The award celebrated their five U.S. patents together. When a U.S. patent is granted, the recipient receives a Gold Dollar Award. After five such awards are acquired, the ACE Gold Dollar is awarded. - More -
Absolute Zero Campaign, a cooperative effort to promote the upcoming two-part PBS TV series Absolute Zero and the Quest of Cold has published the Absolute Zero Community Education Outreach Guide. Designed as a resource for middle school teachers, the guide follows the history of the human quest to explore the cold and features hands-on demonstrations. Although its not a comprehensive science curriculum, it fits middle school standards and is meant to inspire future scientists. A downloadable version is available on the campaign Web site at www.absolutezerocampaign.org. (October 2006)
On Oct. 16, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia announced they discovered a new superheavy element: element 118, reported Science Daily. The element is expected to be a noble gas positioned below radon on the periodic table. For more information visit the October edition of the journal Physical Review C.
Dennis H. Reilley, chairman and CEO of Praxair, will retire as CEO at the end of 2006. Reilley will continue to act as Praxair’s chairman until he retires on April 30, 2007. Stephen F. Angel, currently Praxair’s president and chief operating officer, will become president and CEO on January 1, 2007. Angel, 51, will also become chairman when Reilley retires.
The University of Chicago won a five-year contract on July 31 to continue operating Argonne National Laboratory, ending a process that threatened to damage the university's stature as a world-class research operation. The contract, awarded by the federal Department of Energy, which funds Argonne's operations at more than $500 million a year, can be extended for up to 20 years if the university meets various performance targets.
CSA Corporate Sustaining Member Air Liquide DTA has named Adamo Screnci Commercial Director.
Linde created a mobile hydrogen refueling unit with which it is possible to refuel both with liquid hydrogen and gaseous hydrogen completely autonomous. During the soccer World Cup, this system was used to refuel hydrogen-powered vehicles used at various match locations in Germany.
John Miller, former director of Magnet Science and Technology (MS&T) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), has accepted the position of magnet system team leader at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, starting at the end of June. Both labs are CSA Corporate Sustaining Members. Mark Bird has now been appointed to serve as Interim Director of MS&T at NHMFL.
Two college students were found dead on June 4 inside a large, deflated helium balloon. Officials said the students had apparently pulled the balloon down and crawled inside it. Inhaling helium can lead to brain damage and death from lack of oxygen, according to the Compressed Gas Association.
Justin Schwartz, a professor of engineering at Florida State University, has recently been named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity publications. Schwartz is a recipient of the CSA Roger W. Boom Award.
Cryo Technologies has moved to new quarters at 241 N. Cedar Blvd., in Allentown.
MT-20–The 20th Bi-Annual Conference on Magnet Technology will be held August 27-31, 2007 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia PA. Please visit the website: www.mt-conference.org for more information. Chairs: Bruce Strauss, DOE and Mike Green, LBNL. Email: mt20@centennialconferences.com (April 2007).
In February 2002, the Cryogenics Division of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI), one of the most respected cryogenic companies in the world, acquired APD Cryogenics. Working in conjunction with the cryogenic subsidiary in Chicago, Sumitomo Cryogenics America (SCAI), the SHI Cryogenics Group was formed.
On August 1, 2006 Sumitomo Heavy Industries will merge its two wholly owned North American Cryogenic Subsidiaries. The new combined company will be named “Sumitomo (SHI) Cryogenics of America Incorporated”.
Former Cold Facts columnist on Safety, Fred Edeskuty was honored by his alma mater, South High School, for being an outstanding alumni.
Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) and the University of Chicago have formed a partnership to bid for the US DOE contract to manage the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), home of the Tevatron, the word’s highest energy particle accelerator and a CSA corporate sustaining member.
The Chicago Tribune reports that bidding for control of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), a corporate sustaining member of CSA, will close on June 2. After 60 years of operation by the University of Chicago, Argonne’s management has been put up for bidding for the first time by the Department of Energy.
CSA Board Member and co-founder of the Northern and Southern California Chapters Dr. Sidney Yuan has joined The Aerospace Corporation as Engineering Specialist, a job that he is pleased will include research assignments.
The Applied Superconductivity Center (ASC) will move to Tallahassee FL and become a materials research division of Florida State University's (FSU) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), a CSA corporate sustaining member. The ASC, under Director Dr. David Larbalestier, is expected to bring 30 established staff members, including eight post-doctoral researchers, machinists and graduate students, with a $1-2 million payroll, working with $2 million in research grants and $2.5 million worth of precision lab equipment to FSU.
The International Linear Collider received a 100% increase in the Administration’s budget submitted to Congress for FY 2007, from $30M to $60M. The President’s American Competitiveness Initiative calls for a doubling the federal commitment to the most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next 10 years.
Linde has taken over BOC in a $14.4 billion deal that makes Linde the world’s largest provider of industrial gases.
CSA corporate sustaining member Meyer Tool & Mfg. has manufactured a cryostat for the QUIET (Q/U Imaging ExperimenT) experiment, a joint effort of a consortium from eleven universities and labs. Meyer’s engineers worked with Columbia University’s Laura Newburgh, translating Columbia’s design sketches and documents into manufacturing drawings and instructions.
CAD Cut, a CSA corporate sustaining member, announced its certification to the ISO9001-2000 and AS9100 Quality Standards. CAD Cut services the cryogenic industry with multi-layer insulation manufactured to customer specification. Visit www.cadcut.com.
Researchers at Japan’s KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization have successfully produced a 52.3MV/m gradient field with a niobium superconducting accelerator cavity, reportedly reaching the theoretical accelerating gradient limit for current state of the art cavity shapes. High gradient cavities are one of the most vital components in designing next generation high energy accelerators, such as the International Linear Collider. (Superconductor Week, Oct. 24, 2005)
CSA Editorial Board member Dr. Randall Barron, nominally retired from Louisiana Tech University, is back in the classroom. This Fall Quarter he taught undergraduate Thermodynamics classes and during Winter Quarter he will teach an undergraduate senior elective course in Noise Control, the subject of his latest book, and another course in Cryogenics.
Frank Meyer, founder of Meyer Tool & Mfg., longtime CSA supporter and valued member of the cryogenic community, passed away on February 6. He will be sorely missed by colleagues and friends. - Obituary -
CSA has signed on as part of a national partnership program, to help engage the American audience in a story that touches their lives in innumerable ways, a two-part PBS television special based on the Tom Shachtman book, “Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold.” The program, to be aired in 2007, will demonstrate how civilization has been profoundly affected by the mastery of cold. CSA will be a part of a national educational outreach in connection with the series, promoting appreciation of the importance of cold in our lives and supporting the efforts to use the programs to educate the public. CSA Executive Director Laurie Huget will serve on the National Awareness Advisory Committee to advise on the content and direction of the educational outreach materials. See www.absolutezerocampaign.org/about/index.htm (January 2006).
The first 600m of the cryogenic distribution line to supply superfluid helium to the superconducting magnets at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have passed initial testing at room and cryogenic temperatures. Also, the number of magnets installed in the tunnel passed the 100 mark, and several major contracts related to their construction have been successfully completed. The tests of the cryogenic line, the first to be implemented at close to eventual operating conditions in the LHC tunnel, were done in a section where technical problems were discovered during initial installation in Summer 2004.
BOC Gases commemorated the 40th anniversary of its Otis KS helium plant, one of the world's largest, which refines and produces more helium in one month than it did in its first year of operation.
CSA corporate sustaining member The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University marked a major scientific leap forward with the commissioning of the world-record 900 MHz magnet in July. This spectacularly precise magnet is expected to yield important discoveries in the fields of chemical and biomedical research.
Member companies ACD and Cryoquip of Cryogenic Industries, a CSA corporate sustaining member, contributed their expertise to building the world’s largest single-unit air separation plant. The Long Lake Project is a joint venture between OPTI Canada Inc. and Nexen to produce a premium synthetic crude. The project will produce and upgrade bitumen into a high value synthetic crude oil at a significant cost advantage over competitive technologies, by virtually eliminating the need for externally purchased natural gas. Commissioning is expected in early 2007.
Call for Nominees
Roger W. Boom Award for Young Researchers
in Applied Superconductivity/Cryogenics
Deadline December 1, 2005!
The CSA has created an award in the name of Roger W. Boom, emeritus professor from the University of Wisconsin. This award is to be given to a young professional (under 40 years of age) who shows promise for making significant contributions to the fields of cryogenic engineering or applied superconductivity. Dr. Boom's career spanned more than thirty years during which he motivated a large number of young scientists and engineers to pursue careers in cryogenic engineering and applied superconductivity. The spirit of the R.W. Boom Award is to recognize young people for their pursuit of excellence, demonstration of high standards and clear communications.
Selection Criteria: Candidates for the R.W. Boom award must be at the time of application under 40 years of age and permanently employed by US industry, government laboratories or universities. The
particular area of expertise of the candidate is not a criterion, but industrial experience is desirable. Applicants will be judged by the selection committee, which consists of individuals familiar with Dr. Boom's career.
Nomination packages must be received by the selection committee no later than December 1, 2005. The package should contain: 1) a letter of nomination from a colleague of the candidate; 2) a copy of the candidate's vita, and 3) no more than two letters of support from senior individuals familiar with the candidate's credentials.
Please send nomination packages to:
Dr. Steven W. Van Sciver
Chair Selection Committee
NHMFL
1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
E-mail: vnsciver@magnet.fsu.edu
Phone: 850-644-0998
Fax: 850-644-0867
TUNE IN NOW! Beyond Einstein: A live Webcast from around the Globe
Thursday, December 1, 2005, from 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST
Batavia, Ill.-"The Late Show with Leon Lederman" is one of many highlights of a 12-hour live Webcast produced by the European laboratory CERN, the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab and other partners, including physics laboratories, science museums and technology partners. The Web cast, with contributions from around the globe, will celebrate Albert Einstein and look beyond the World Year of Physics 2005. The Webcast will take place on December 1 from 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST. The public will have access to the entire Webcast from the Fermilab homepage at www.fnal.gov - More -
Southern California Chapter Forms! A new Local Chapter of the CSA has formed in Southern California. Read more about it here.
Acme Cryogenics has launched its redesigned customer-focused website, structured around a site map that flows through information and service pages with a product catalogue. Product pages condense information, allowing for quick browsing so users can find the facts they need at first glance. To experience the new Acme Cryogenics, visit www.acmecryo.com
We are sorry to report the death on Feb. 3, 2005 of long-time CSA member Dr. Francis (Frank) Zimmermann. Frank earned the degree of ScD from MIT under Sam Collins in 1953. His dissertation was concerned with the adiabatic demagnetization of paramagnetic salts in liquid Helium2. He worked in cryogenics at Arthur D. Little and Oak Ridge for several years before accepting a teaching position in the engineering school at Yale. In 1962 he moved to Lafayette College, in Easton PA, where he was a professor in the ME department until retiring in 1986. He was a cryogenics consultant to Air Products and Chemicals during his tenure at Lafayette.
Foundations of Cryocoolers Short Course –June 13 at Loews Annapolis Hotel. Fees are $200 before May 15; $225 later, and $100 for students (with valid ID). Registration form and details are available at www.cryogenicsociety.org
CryoPrague 2006 –July 17-21 in Prague, Czech Republic, combines the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference (ICEC), The International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC), and the traditional Czech IIR international conference “Cryogenics” with the exhibition Cryomarket. More details are available at www.icaris.info/CryoPrague2006
Acme Cryogenics was presented the Supplier Excellence Award from Air Liquide at a Supplier Recognition Ceremony in Houston TX on November 30th. Acme was one of 10 suppliers chosen by Air Liquide’s business groups to be recognized for their outstanding performance as a supplier in 2005.
CSA member Dr. Steven Van Sciver is working with the technology company Oxford Instruments on the first phase of a grant to help prove the concept behind a patent-pending cryogenic technique for particle separation from a few microns down to submicrons. Van Sciver, vnsciver@magnet.fsu.edu, is the author of Helium Cryogenics and chairman of the CSA Roger W. Boom Award Committee. He is professor of mechanical engineering with the Florida A&M University/Florida State University College of Engineering, and an expert in cryogenics at the National High Magnet Field Laboratory, a CSA Corporate Sustaining Member.
The NHMFL announced an achievement of international importance as engineers and technicians completed testing of a world-record 35-tesla magnet, the highest-field resistive magnet in the world. CSA member Dr. Mark Bird, bird@magnet.fsu.edu, is the project leader on the 35-tesla upgrade.
Meyer Tool & Mfg. has just completed five CCD dewar canister assemblies for the Ohio State University (OSU). The dewar canisters are used to provide cryogenic cooling to the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) cameras in the Multi-Object Double CCD Spectrograph and Imager (MODS) being designed and built by OSU for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT).
The 40th Applied Superconductivity Conference, ASC 2006, will be held from August 27-September 1 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle. Electronic notification of abstract acceptance will be by March 31; online registration and hotel reservations will open on April 3; early registration/hotel reservation deadline will be July 14; manuscript submissions deadline is August 29 at 2 p.m. Visit www.ascinc.org for conference news.
Jim Balet is the new owner of CSA corporate sustaining member Cool Pair Plus, Inc.
Gregory Laughon has been made Engineering Manager in addition to his role as Senior Cryogenic Engineer at CSA corporate sustaining member American Magnetics, Inc.
Linde has agreed to purchase CSA corporate sustaining member Spectra Gases, Inc., Branchburg, NJ, from founding family Alvin and Andy Dietz.
Cryocoolers 14, ICC14 –June 14-16 at Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis, MD. Registration is $495 before May 15, $595 after, and $200 for students. Registration form and details are available at www.cryocooler.org
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