1 Announcement The 1st Swedish-Russian-Finnish School for Young Scientists From Andreev Reflection to the International Space Station Björkliden, Kiruna, Sweden, March 11-18, 2000 Organizing Committee: Leonid Kuzmin, Gothenburg, Chairman Tord Claeson, Gothenburg Michael Tarasov, Moscow-Gothenburg Vladimir Gromov, Moscow Jukka Pekola, Jyväskylä Ann-Marie Frykestig, Gothenburg We have got information that NFR fully supports the idea of the first school for young Swedish and Russian scientists. Financially the school is supported by NFR at 47% and it's enough to start organization of the school. Travels of young Russian scientists will be partly supported by RFBR. The rest will be selected from other sources. We find that the idea of NFR and RFBR to organize joint conferences for young scientists is very progressive. We clearly feel necessity to involve young and energetic scientists in our projects including wide spectrum of tasks from very fundamental science to well purposed applications for the International Space Station (ISS). We organize regular workshop on this topic (http://fy.chalmers.se/~f4agro/workshop.htm) where we invite mainly the leaders of the groups. The NFR suggestion about conference for young scientists looks more progressive for involving young scientists in our activity and could be a good supplement to our workshops. Finnish group of Professor Jukka Pekola from Jyväskylä University has shown high interest to participate in this school. This is why we name it as Swedish-Russian-Finnish school. We consider very positively the cooperation with this group. The main topics of the school will be nonequilibrium effects in mesoscopic structures and possible application of these effects in supersensitive systems. The special attention will be paid to - Hot-Electron Microbolometers with Andreev mirrors for ultrasensitive detection of IR and millimeter waves - Other concepts of sensors, electronic microrefrigeration using SIN (superconductor-insulator-normal metal) tunnel junctions - Submillimeter Cryogenic Telescope for the International Space Station; other radioastronomical applications. We have chosen a location close to the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna and the Space International Centre in Esrange due to space oriented themes of our school. We hope it will help participants to get better idea of research activity in Kiruna region and install better contacts between Russian and Swedish space agencies. Director of Russian Astro Space Centre N. Kardashev and his colleagues would like to install contacts with the Odin satellite team to use their experience in submillimeter wave telescope for similar project Submillimetron on the ISS. Besides that, we would like to repeat in some extent the experience of NATO schools in Les Houches with creative informal atmosphere involving direct contacts of senior and young scientists. Preliminary list of Lecturers: + 1. Alexander Andreev, author of the Andreev reflection allowing to describe the processes of current transport, heat exchange and noise generation on the SN interface, director of Kapitza Institute of Physical Problems and the leader of the famous theoretical school founded by L.D. Landau, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Science. + 2. Nikolai Kardashev, Astro Space Center RAS, Moscow, Leader of Russian radioastronomy, Leader of the Project Submillimetron for the International Space Station + 3. Paul Richards, Berkeley, Leader of cryogenic bolometers, author of the novel concept of bolometers with Andreev mirrors, Balloon experiments for Anisotropy of Microwave Background. + 4. Roy Booth, Gothenburg, Onsala Observatory. The new ESO/NRAO project LSA/MMA proposes array of 64 telescopes of mm and sub-mm waves located on a very high (5000m) site in Chile. + 5. Erik Kollberg, Gothenburg. Hot-electron Bolometer-mixers with phonon cooling. + 6. Leonid Kuzmin, Gothenburg. Concepts of the Hot-Electron Microbolometers + 7. Michael Tarasov, Moscow. Supersensitive superconducting receivers + 8. Jukka Pekola, Jyväskyla. Nonequilibrium electronic cooling. + 9. Andrei Zaikin, Moscow-Karlsruhe. Quantum Decoherence in the presence of Interactions. The most exiting topic of discussions during the last LT-22 conference. This very fundamental question can be reformulated as would we have Fermi-Dirac distribution as absolutely sharp step at T=0 or electron ­electron interaction will smear out this step even at T=0. Important for final bolometer realization. + 10. Rickard Lundin, Kiruna, Space Plasma Group + 11. Vladimir Gromov, Moscow. Description of the cryogenic telescope for the ISS - the Submillimetron project 12. Lennard Nordh, SNSB, Stockholm. Radioastronomy from space ­ future Space Missions 13. L. Gorshkov, Rocket Space Corporation Energia, Moscow. Russian segment of the ISS. Delivery and disposal of the Submillimetron telescope. + - informed Preliminary program of the school: - lectures of invited speakers - poster and oral presentations of participants - round table discussions on the most actual topics - progress meeting on the project Submillimetron (Submillimeter Cryogenic Telescope for the International Space Station) - visit to the Space Center Esrange (possibly combining with a visit to the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna). The whole number of participants and lecturers ­ 30 (10 lecturers and 20 participants). Supported by NFR, SI, STINT and RFBR Leonid Kuzmin, Associate Professor Department of Microelectronics and Nanoscience School of Physics and Physical Engineering Chalmers University of Technology S-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden Tel: +46 31 772 3608 Mobil: +46 707 122802 Fax: +46 31 772 3471 e-mail: kuzmin@fy.chalmers.se WWW: http://fy.chalmers.se/~kuzmin/ More information about the Project Submillimetron can be found on the Web-sites http://www.asc.rssi.ru/submillimetron/submill.htm http://fy.chalmers.se/~kuzmin/Submillimetron.html