Program
September 2009
The program is final. No changes should occur.
Sunday 6.9. Earliest time of arrival. You must find your way to hotel "Kuninkaantie" to stay overnight. See Location & Travel for more info. You are a member of the group "TKK/Cryocourse 2009" The bus will pick you up there at about 12:45 on Monday.
Monday 7.9. Latest time of arrival in Otaniemi, be here before noon!
11:30 Lunch in Otaniemi for those who arrived here
12:30 Bus transportation leaves Otaniemi, from the front of Low Temperature Laboratory
12:45 The bus stops at the hotel to pick up the students there
14:15 Arrival at Lammi Biological Station, distribution of rooms
14:30 Coffee
15:30 Juha Tuoriniemi: Welcome to Cryocourse 2009, introduction and instructions
16:30 Henri Godfrin: Introduction to thermodynamics
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Tuesday 8.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Christian Enss: Heat transfer, Thermal isolation, Thermal contact
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Henri Godfrin: Introduction to statistical physics
14:00 Nikolai Kopnin: Theories of superconductivity
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Nikolai Kopnin: Superconductivity - theory and applications
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Wednesday 9.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Christian Enss: Vacuum and low temperatures,
Disordered solids at low temperatures, Quantum fluids and solids
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Fons de Waele: The (first, second, and third) laws of thermodynamics
14:00 Fons de Waele: Thermodynamics of dilution refrigeration I
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Fons de Waele: Thermodynamics of dilution refrigeration II
16:30 Henri Godfrin: Dilution refrigerators, design and operation
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Thursday 10.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Henri Godfrin: Thermometry
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Fons de Waele: The Josephson effect and superfluid helium
(as macroscopic quantum phenomena)
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Igor Todoshchenko: Surface of helium-3 crystals at very low temperatures
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Friday 11.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Arttu Luukanen: Superconducting detectors - physics and applications
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Fons de Waele: Cryocoolers
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Pertti Hakonen: Quantum amplifiers - high frequency applications,
SQUID, SET, etc
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Saturday 12.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Erkki Thuneberg: Landau Fermi liquid theory, Theories of superfluid 4He and 3He, Vortices
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Jukka Pekola: Nano-refrigeration
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Jukka Pekola: Nano-thermometry, Refrigerating nano-scale samples
to very low temperatures
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Sunday 13.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Juha Tuoriniemi: Demagnetization cooling, Nuclear magnetism,
Experiments at microkelvin temperatures
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Sorin Paraoanu: Superconducting devices for quantum information processing I
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Sorin Paraoanu: Superconducting devices for quantum information processing II
17:30 Dinner
19:00 Sauna and recreation
Monday 14.9.
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Departure from Lammi
Visit to Woikoski, a commercial helium liquefaction plant
Transportation to Helsinki area
at about 20:00 Check in at the hotel Kuninkaantie in Espoo
Tuesday 15.9.
08:00 Breakfast at your hotel
09:20 Bus to Low Temperature Laboratory
10:00 Juha Simola: Cryogenics serving investigations of human brain (Lecture Hall B at the main building of TKK)
12:00 Lunch in Otaniemi
13:00 Veikko Jousmäki/Toni Auranen Visit to the MEG/fMRI facility of Low Temperature Laboratory
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Toni Auranen/Veikko Jousmäki Visit to the fMRI/MEG facility of Low Temperature Laboratory
17:30 Find your way to the hotel or see the city
Wednesday 16.9.
08:00 Breakfast at your hotel
09:20 Bus to MIKES for a visit at the Finnish Centre for Metrology and Accreditation.
10:00 Heikki Isotalo: Welcome
10:20 Antti Manninen, Kari Riski, Mikko Merimaa, Petri Kärhä:
Cryogenics in metrology
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Jaani Nissilä, Alexandre Satrapinski, Antti Kemppinen, Ossi Hahtela, Martti Heinonen:
Laboratory demonstrations in four groups
16:00 Coffee
16:30 General tour in MIKES building in four groups
17:30 Back to the hotel or see the city
Thursday 17.9.
08:00 Breakfast at your hotel
09:20 Bus to Low Temperature Laboratory
10:00 Practical exercises in small groups:
Jaakko Hosio, Matti Manninen, Juho Rysti, Anssi Salmela: RRR measurements, Helium leak detection, Superfluid 4He
12:00 Lunch in Otaniemi
13:00 Practical exercises in small groups:
Jaakko Hosio, Matti Manninen, Juho Rysti, Anssi Salmela: Helium leak detection, Superfluid 4He, RRR measurements
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Practical exercises in small groups:
Jaakko Hosio, Matti Manninen, Juho Rysti, Anssi Salmela: Superfluid 4He, RRR measurements, Helium leak detection
17:30 Find your way to the hotel or see the city
Friday 18.9.
08:00 Breakfast at your hotel. Those who leave on Friday should book out from the hotel before coming to Otaniemi
09:20 Bus to Low Temperature Laboratory
10:00 Tero Heikkilä: Noise at low temperatures.
12:00 Lunch in Otaniemi
13:00 Rob Blaauwgeers: Cryogen free dilution refrigerator,
Putting up a small scale business on cryogenic equipment
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Demonstration of a cryogen free dilution refrigerator,
Demonstration of thermometry at millikelvin temperatures
18:00 Closing of the course
18:30 Earliest moment for departure or return to the hotel if you wish to stay for another night
Saturday 19.9.
08:00 Breakfast at the hotel for those who stayed, book out according to the hotel rules
Voluntary and independent sightseeing in Helsinki
Latest time for departure