Cryogenics: the great enabler Cryogenic Engineering Conference 2019 review

摘要

Hartford,Connecticut was the location of this years American Cryogenic Engineering Conference(CEC) 2019.The CEC event falls between the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference(ICEC),which alternates every two years between Europe and Asia.Last year it was held in Oxford,and next year it will be held in Hangzhou,China.The International Cryogenic Materials Conference(ICMC) is twinned with both the CEC and ICMC,taking place every year.America does everything on an industrial scale,from highways to hamburgers,and the same can be said for its conference centres! Roughly 600 delegates arrived in Hartford for the event during the last full week of July,far from filling the vast,spacious Hartford Convention Center.The British contingent to the delegates included Simon Canfer and Shrikant Pattalwar from the Science and Technology Facilities Council(STFC),Neil Clarke from Oxford Instruments,John Durrell from Cambridge University,Quan Li from Edinburgh University,Yifeng Yang from Southampton University,David Evans from the ICMC and myself on behalf of both the British Cryogenics Council(BCC) and the ICEC.