The 1st Swedish-Russian-Finnish School for Young Scientists

"From Andreev Reflection to the International Space Station through Bjorkliden"
Bjorkliden, Kiruna, Sweden, March 11-18, 2000

Sunday, March 12

9.00 -9.30 Opening. Leonid Kuzmin. History of the School

9.30 -10.20 Vladimir Gromov. Project Submillimetron. Scientific objectives and Telescope 
Parameters.

10.30 -11.20 Andrei Zaikin. Interactions and Quantum Dephasing in Disordered Conductors.

11:30 Lunch

16:45 Coffee

17.00 –20.00 Poster session I

Andrey Adov. "Possible variants of disposal of the Submillimetron  Telescope on the International 
Space Station"

Dmitri Golubev and Leonid Kuzmin. Theory of the hot electron bolometer with voltage-biased NIS 
tunnel junction

Arttu Luukanen. Recent progress on x-ray calorimetry at Jyväskylä

Bong Choi, Leonid Kuzmin, Denis Chouvaev, and Michael Tarasov CTH. Normal metal hot-electron 
microbolometer with capacitive coupling to antenna by tunnel junctions 

Michail Savvateev and Alexei Pavolotsky. "Fabrication process of the microbolometer with copper 
hot-electron absorber"

Michael Fominsky, Michael Tarasov and Leonid Kuzmin. Suspended SiN masks for shadow 
evaporation of bolometer structure.

18.30 –20.00 Poster session I: short oral presentations. Chairman: M. Tarasov

20.00 – Dinner

Monday, March 13 

9.00 -11.30 Lectures

Trubnikov. Progress of the Modern Extra-atmospheric Radioastronomy. Space stations Radioastron, 
Submillimetron, Millimetron.

Sigfrid  Yngvesson, CTH – Massach. Un., Hot-electron Bolometer-mixers.

Michael Tarasov. Mechanisms of mixing in bolometer-mixer. On Incoherent and Coherent detection.

17.00 –18.30 Workshop on Project Submillimetron, INTAS and other space related projects, 
day1: progress reports. Chairman: V. Gromov.

ASC – Gromov, Trubnikov
RSC Energia – Adov
Chalmers University – Kuzmin, Tarasov
Jyväskylä University - Arttu Luukanen
Chalmers – Massach. Universities - Sigfrid  Yngvesson
IREE – Tarasov
MSU - Savvateev 

18.30 – 20.00 Round table discussion on actual topics 
Speakers: M. Tarasov, Sigfrid  Yngvesson, V. Gromov

Mechanisms of mixing in bolometer-mixer. 
On Incoherent and Coherent detection.
 
Tuesday, March 14

9.00 -11.30 Lectures

Kuzmin. Antenna-coupled Hot-electron micrpobolometers for THz space applications

Willander. THz generation and detection in III-V materials.

Andrey Adov. Service Module – the core of the International Space Station (ISS).

17.00 –20.00 Poster session II

Denis Chouvaev and Leonid Kuzmin, CTH. A cryosystem for optical evaluation of the antenna-
coupled direct detector of submillimeter radiation.

Janne Suoknuuti. Fabrication of microcoolers 

Tarmo Suppula. NIS coolers with enhanced cooling power 

Eugeny  Shamparov "Fast FIR detector on the cyclotron resonance in InSb"

Andrey  Vasenko and Dmitri Golubev. "Effect of Environment on NIS tunnel junction"

Vladislav  Zavjalov "Delution refrigerator with circulation of both He-3 and He-4"

18.30 –20.00 Poster session II: short oral presentations. Chairman: V. Gromov

Wednesday, March 15

Visit to the Space Center "Esrange"

Thursday, March 16 

9.00 -11.30 Lectures

Yukka Pekola. NIS cooling and NIS cooled microbolometers

Trubnikov. Russian segment of the ISS. Delivery and disposal of the Submillimetron telescope 

Andrei Zaikin. Interactions and Quantum Dephasing in Disordered Conductors. Problems, tasks, 
possible experiments

17.00 –20.00 Workshop on Project Submillimetron, day 2 – discussions

18.30 – 20.00 Round table discussion on actual topics. 
Speakers: Leonid Kuzmin, Jukka Pekola, D. Golubev, Arttu Luukanen, Michael Tarasov

Comparison of Normal metal hot-electron bolometer and Transition-edge bolometer

Friday, March 17 

9.00 -10.00 Lecture
Andreev. How "Andreev Reflection" has been discovered.

10.00 –11.00 Summary of the school, Official Closing. PHOTO

12.00 Lunch in Låktatjåkko, 1228 m.o.s.

17.00 Coffee

Final gathering materials of the School for publication 
Informal discussions

20-22 Unofficial closing, dinner

Saturday, March 18

Departure