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Recent talks given by Adam L. Woodcraft

2010

Material properties at cryogenic temperatures
Talk at the STFC Cryogenics Training Day, Daresbury Laboratory, 20th April 2010
Low temperature detectors for astronomy (and other applications)
Talk at the Extreme Sensing meeting at the Institute of Physics, London, 19th February 2010

2009

An introduction to cryogenics
Introductory lecture at the Institute of Physics Low Temperature Techniques course, Nottingham, 4th November 2009
SPIRE - the state-of-the-art in semiconductor bolometers for astronomy
Invited keynote talk at the 34th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, Busan, Korea, 21st September 2009
Physics based calibration of the Herschel/SPIRE bolometers
Talk at LTD13 (13th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors Stanford, July 20-24, 2009), 20th July 2009
Material properties at cryogenic temperatures
Talk at the STFC Cryogenics Training Day, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 17th June 2009 and 27th October 2009
From the birth of stars to measuring the neutrino mass: Applied condensed matter physics in space, on mountains, and under them
Seminar at Birmingham University, April 2009
Thermal design issues for FIRI
Invited talk at the FIRI European Workshop, Edinburgh, February 2009
Terahertz detectors for astronomy
Invited talk at the ERP-IIS advisory group meeting, 22nd January 2009

2008

Material property needs for cryogenic instruments
Invited talk at the OPTICON workshop on material property measurements for cryogenic instruments, Merate, Italy, December 2008
Cryogenics for FIRI
Invited talk at the FIRI UK workshop, Edinburgh, December 2008
An introduction to cryogenics
Introductory lecture at the Institute of Physics Low Temperature Techniques course, Nottingham, 26th November 2008
FIR & THz detectors for astronomy
Invited talk given at the ERP-IIS detectors meeting, Edinburgh, November 2008
The future: a model-based pipeline?
Talk given at the Herschel SPIRE consortium meeting, La Palma, October 2008
Instrumentation for sub-mm astronomy
Talk given at the 8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors, Glasgow, September 2008
Characterizing the SCUBA-2 superconducting bolometer arrays
Invited talk given at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference, Marseille, June 2008
Lessons learned from SCUBA-2 for future cryogenic instrumentation in space
Talk given at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference, Marseille, June 2008
Understanding the Herschel-SPIRE bolometers
Talk given at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference, Marseille, June 2008
Crycoolers for sub-mm astronomy - an overview
Invited talk at the IOP/BBC meeting on cryocoolers, University of Southampton, 17th March 2008
Thermal design for large millikelvin instruments
Invited talk given at SRON Utrecht March 2008

2007

Lessons learned from SCUBA-2 (and other instruments)
Talk given at the Space Cryogenics Workshop, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 27th November 2008
An introduction to cryogenics
Introductory lecture at the Institute of Physics Low Temperature Techniques course, Nottingham, 7th November 2007
SCUBA-2 and Planck Surveyor: How to get 36 000 SQUIDS into a cryostat and put a dilution fridge into space.
Seminar given at the Physics Department of the University of Milano - Bicocca, 13th September 2007
SCUBA-2: a 10 000-pixel submillimetre camera for astronomy
Talk given at the IRMMW-THz 2007 conference, Cardiff, 5th September 2007
SCUBA-2 for the JCMT
Talk given at the 2007 RSE Cormack meeting, University of Strathclyde, 11th May 2007

2006

Direct detectors for low background far infrared space telescopes
Invited talk given at the Third European Far-Infrared Community Workshop, Obergurgl, 26th October 2006
Detectors for the 10 000 pixel SCUBA-2 superconducting sub-mm camera for astronomy
Talk given at the IRMMW-THz 2006 conference, Shanghai, 19th September 2006
Conference paper: Local pdf file
A cryogenic material property database - why bother?
Invited talk given at the SUPA annual meeting, Strathclyde University 14th June 2006
Characterization of a prototype SCUBA-2 1280 pixel submillimeter superconducting bolometer array
Talk given at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference, Orlando, 24-31 May 2006
Conference paper: Local pdf file

2005

Bolometry using high sensitivity NTD germanium thermometers
Invited talk given at the Low Temperature Thermometry meeting, Oxford, 24th November 2005. Arranged by the National Physical Laboratory Thermal Measurement Awareness Network
Sub-mm astronomy at millikelvin temperatures: from 1 to 10 000 pixels in ten years
Seminar given in the Physics Department at Lancaster University, 11th November 2005
First tests of prototype SCUBA-2 array
Talk given at the Techniques and Instrumentation in Low Temperature Physics workshop, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 17th May 2005
A method for predicting the thermal conductivity of aluminium alloys at cryogenic temperatures.
Talk given at the European Space Cryogenics Workshop, ESTEC, 16th June 2005

The information presented in this talk is also summarised in a short (unpublished) article, and described more fully in a paper published in Cryogenics ("Predicting the thermal conductivity of aluminium alloys in the cryogenic to room temperature range")
Adam Woodcraft
Last modified 2010-04-27