The Jubilee 8th International Workshop 
"From Andreev Reflection to the International Space Station"
with special topic "40 years with Andreev Reflection"

Björkliden, Kiruna, Sweden, March 20-27, 2004

Organizing Committee:

Leonid Kuzmin, Gothenburg - Chairman
Michael Tarasov, Moscow - Gothenburg
Vladimir Gromov, Moscow
Ann-Marie Frykestig, Gothenburg

Programme

Saturday, March 20
Arrival
17.00 coffee in the conference room near lobby (Svartabjorn)
17:30 Preparing snow for igloo
20:00 Dinner
20.30-22.00 - Gather together. Svartabjorn

Sunday, March 21

9.00-12.00 Conference room (Smedian)
9.00 - 9.15 Opening

9:15 -10:00 Andreev. Jubilee lecture "How it happened 40 years ago"

10.00-10.10 Coffee

10.10-10.40 Marke Blamire, Cambridge. "Andreev coupling and pi-junctions
in superconductor / ferromagnet heterostructures"

10.40-11.20 Vladimir Gromov, ASC. " Submillimetron and Millimetron:
New Generation Submillimeter telescopes for an Era after Planck and Herschel missions ".

13:30-16:00 Starting to do blocks for Igloo

16.50-17.00 Coffee in the Conference room (Smedian)

17.00-19.30. Poster session + oral presentations
Anne Anthore Tayloring Josephson coupling through superconductivity-induced nonequilibrium
Ronni Basu. Microwave oscillators with ultra-low phase noise
Benjamin Thomsen
I. Agulo, CTH. "Electron microrefrigeration by SIN tunnel junctions "
A. Kalabukhov, M. Tarasov, CTH. "SQUID femtoamperemeter readout for CEB"

18:00 Short oral presentations of posters (10-15 min) with unlimited discussions

Monday, March 22
9.00-12.00 Oral presentations , Smedjan
9.00-9.30 K. Arutyunov.  Experimental evidence of quantum phase slip phenomena in ultra-narrow superconducting channels
9.30-10.00 L. Kuzmin, CTH. "Ultimate cold-electron bolometer for THz detection"
10.00-10.10 Coffee
10.10-10.40 M. Tarasov, CTH. Superconducting THz Transmission Spectrometer Comprising Josephson Oscillator and Cold-Electron Bolometer.
10.40-11.20

13:30-16:00 Starting to do blocks for Igloo

16.50-17.00 Coffee in the conference room Smedjan

17.00 - 18.30 Bolometer readout systems (SQUID, HEMT and other)

17.00-17.30 Damien Rambaud. Planck HFI readout system.
17:30-18:00 Zakosarenko, IPHT, Jena. TES bolometer array with SQUID readout for APEX.
18:00-18:30 N. Oukhanski and H.-G. Meyer, High sensitive bipolar- and high electron mobility transistor readout electronics for quantum devices.
18:30-19:00 Discussion on Readout systems

19.00 - 19.30 Meeting on INTAS projects (chairman - M. Tarasov)
20.00 Dinner
20.30-22.00 - Discussion club

Tuesday, March 23

9.00 -16.30  Building the Igloo,  lunch 12.00-13.00
17.00-17.15 Coffee in the conference room (Smedian)
17.00 -20.00 Local discussions: Smedjan 17.00 - 18.30
 				Svarta Bjorn 18.30 - 20.00

Wednesday, March 24
9.00 -12.00  Building the Igloo, finalizing
16.50-17.00 Coffee in the Conference room (Smedian)

17:00-18:30 Conference room (Smedian)
17:00-17:30 Valery Koshelets. Integrated Submillimeter and Terahertz Receivers with Superconducting Local Oscillator

17:30-18:00. Konstantin Arutyunov. Normal metal - insulator - superconductor interferometer
18:00 Discussion on a possible new type of Quasiparticle SQUID and other applications. Konstantin Arutyunov and others.

18:30. Carbon Nanotubes: possible absorber for electron supercooler and superbolometer. Round table discussion. L. Kuzmin and others

21:00. Glogg party in the Igloo
All are invited:


Thursday, March 25

9:00-12:00 Oral session,
9:00-9:30 A.F.Andreev, Kapitza Institute , Moscow. "Electron Pairs for HTSC"
9:30-10:00 V. Zakosarenko. IPHT. "Integrated SQUID-Gradiometer for Magnetic  Micro-Calorimeter".
10:00 Coffee break
10:10-10:40 Genrikh Bogomolov. SOME PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE TERAHERZ RANGE APPLICATIONS
10:40-11:10

16.50-17.00 Coffee in conference room
17:00-17:30 Vladimir Mikheev. " Oxford Instruments' new  Cryogen Free He3 Refrigerator"
17:30-18:00 Michael Tarasov. Electric crogen-free cooling from room temperature down to 200 mK
18:00-18:30 Simon Mitchenson. Oxford Instruments: a product introduction and overview
18:30-19:30 Round-table discussion on cryogenic systems. Requirement for different applications
 He3, cryofree He3, double-stage He3, DIL, ADR, :

Friendship round-table cryogenic discussion:

Participants give their requests, recommendations, :.

20.30-22.00 -Svartabjorn . Discussion club

Friday, March 26

9.00-10.00 Program for the day. Conference room
Picture of participants
10.00-10.10 Coffee
10:10-17:00 Social program
11.00 Record picture on Igloo
12.00 Travel (skiing) to Laktatjakko by snowmobile and Lunch in Laktatjakko

16.50-17.00 Coffee in Svarta Bjorn
17.00-20.00 Svarta Bjorn
17:00- 18:00 European cooperation (participants)   Market search


18:00-19:00 Conclusions
21.00- Glogg party in the Igloo. Jubilee firework

Saturday, March 27
local discussions

17:00-20:00 cooperation, funding. Svartabjorn