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SESSION 1: Aerospace Cryocoolers 1
Tuesday Morning ORAL Session: 8:15 AM to 9:15 AM
1.1 Cryocooler System Design and Performance for the Pandora Flight Mission
1.2 Extended Duration Testing of a 90 K Cryocooler for Space Applications
1.3 HCC Pulse Tube Cryocooler Performance Enhancements
1.4 Cryocooler/Thermal System Design and Performance on the HyTI-2 Flight Mission
Plenary 1 (Tuesday Morning, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
Session Chair: Gerd Jakob, ESO
Cryocooler Applications in Ground-Based Radio Astronomy
SESSION 2: Cooler Integration Tech. & Applications 1
Tuesday Morning ORAL Session: 10:30 AM to 11:15 AM
2.2 Habitable Worlds Observatory Cryocooler Configuration Trade Study
2.3 Cryocoolers for ESO’s Astronomical Telescopes
SESSION 3: GM & GM-type Pulse Tube Coolers
Tuesday Morning ORAL Session: 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM
3.1 Experimental Apparatus to Study Buffer Tube Performance in Pulse Tube Refrigerators
3.2 Analysis of a Pneumatically-Driven Cryocooler Using Acausal Modeling
3.3 Energy Efficiency Improvements on 4.2 K Two-Stage Pulse Tube Cryocoolers
3.4 Influence of Cycle Frequency on Realized Cooling Power in Gifford-McMahon Cryocoolers
SESSION 4: Brayton, J-T and Sorption Coolers
Tuesday Afternoon ORAL Session: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
4.1 Advanced Helium Compressor for an Ultrahigh-Capacity 20 K Space Cryocooler
4.2 Electrochemical Compressor and Dryer for Hydrogen Joule-Thomson Cryocooler
4.3 A High-Capacity Two-Stage JT Cryocooler with a Shared Compression Stage
4.4 Application of Space-Borne Turbo-Brayton Cryocooler Technology to Cooling Future Quantum
Computers
4.5 Cryogenic Performance of the Acoustic Expander
4.6 Emitted Vibration Measurements of Reverse Turbo-Brayton Cryocooler Components
SESSION 5: Stirling & Pulse Tube Cryocoolers 1
Tuesday Afternoon ORAL Session: 4:00 PM to 5:30 AM
5.1 Thermal Vacuum Performance and Characterization Testing of the Ricor K508n Cryocoolers
5.4 Environmental Testing of Thales Linear Pulse Tube (LPT) Cryocoolers
5.6 Advances in High Cooling Capacity 4.2 K Two-Stage Pulse Tube Cryocoolers
SESSION 6: Regenerator/Recuperator Investigations
Wednesday Morning ORAL Session: 8:15 AM to 9:30 AM
6.2 Experimental Investigation on Finned-Tube-in-Tube (FTiT) Recuperators for Joule-Thomson
Cryocoolers
6.3 Development and Testing of a High-Effectiveness Recuperator for Spaceborne Turbo-Brayton
Cryocoolers
6.4 Size Effect of Regenerator and Expander Module on the Performance of a Miniature Stirling
Cryocooler
Special Session: Ray Radebaugh Memorial
Wednesday Morning, 9:45 - 10:45 AM
In Memoriam: Dr. Ray Radebaugh
Chair: Peter Bradley, NIST
SESSION 7: Aerospace Cryocoolers 2
Wednesday Morning ORAL Session: 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM
7.1 JT Cooler Technology Development for Ariel
7.2 Characterization Testing of a 20 Kelvin Cryocooler for Space Applications
7.3 Ariel Active Cooler System: Progress Towards the QM
7.4 Launch Vibration Qualification Testing of a High-Capacity 20K Cryocooler for Cryo Fluid
Management
SESSION 8: Cooler Integration & Applications
Wednesday Afternoon POSTER Session: 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
8.1 Performance Modeling of CryoFILL Incorporating a Flight-Like Cryocooler
8.3 Summery Review of System Thermal Performance for the wSMA Cryostat as Built by
FormFactor
SESSION 9: Cryocooler Characterization
Wednesday Afternoon POSTER Session: 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
9.1 Characterization Testing of the Thales LSF9589 Cryocooler
9.2 Thermal Vacuum Performance and Characterization Testing of the Sunpower GT and GTLT
Cryocoolers
9.3 Characterization Testing of Joule-Thomson Coolers for Space Science Missions
SESSION 10: Stirling Cryocoolers
Wednesday Afternoon POSTER Session: 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
10.1 Development and Performance Test of a High-Capacity Two-Stage Stirling Cryocooler
10.2 Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Cryocooler Performance Mapping and Fatigue Life
10.3 A Novel 3D Printed Regenerator Filler for Large Stirling and Pulse-Tube Cryocoolers
SESSION 11: GM and JT Cryocoolers
Wednesday Afternoon POSTER Session: 1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
11.1 Experimental Study of a Large-Capacity GM–JT Cryocooler in the Liquid Helium Temperature Range
11.3 High-Efficiency Operation of Multiple Single-Stage GM Cold Heads Powered by a Single
Compressor
SESSION 12: Stirling & Pulse Tube Cryocoolers 2
Wednesday Afternoon ORAL Session: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
12.1 Thermal-Vacuum Performance and Characterization Testing of the Thales R3Mi Cryocoolers
12.2 Cost-Effective and Compact Linear Piston Compressor for Low SWaP IR Applications
12.3 High Efficiency, "Zero" Ripple Cooler Electronics for Small Satellite Space Sensors
12.5 Machine-Learning-Based Approaches for Advanced Cryocooler Design
SESSION 13: Cooler Integration Tech. & Applications 2
Thursday Morning ORAL Session: 8:15 AM to 9:45 AM
13.1 A Container-Based 100 kg/day Hydrogen Reliquefier
13.2 Development of a Low Power Helium Reliquefier for NMR Users
13.5 Realization of Cryogenic Fixed Points for Calibration of Capsule-Type SPRTs Using GM
Cryocooler
Plenary 2 (Thursday Morning, 10:00 - 11:00 AM)
Session Chair: Andrew Ballard, Bluefors
Quantum Emulation with Superconducting Quantum Processors
SESSION 14: Cryogenic Technology
Thursday Morning ORAL Session: 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
14.1 Estimation of Thermal Conduction Loads of Cryogenic Components in Spaceflight Applications
14.2 Sub-Kelvin Cryogenics for a Super-Pressure Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter: Taurus
14.3 Sub-Triple-Point Nitrogen Spray Cooling
14.4 Quantitative Measure of Cryocooler Contamination Using Cold-Trap Fractionation
14.5 Crazy Pulse Tube Cryocooler Ideas
SESSION 15: Sub Kelvin Refrigerators & Technology
Thursday Afternoon ORAL Session: 1:45 PM to 3:00 PM
15.1 Progress on Vanadium Superconducting Heat Switch Development at UW-Madison
15.3 Mitigation of Continuous Adsorption Cooler Periodic Fluctuations in Dilution Unit Precooling
15.4 Optimization of the Transient Response of Gas-Gap Heat Switches
SESSION 16: Aerospace Cryocoolers Athena & Prima Missions
Thursday Afternoon ORAL Session: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
16.1 Advances in the Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator Suspension System
16.2 50 mK ADR Cooler for the Athena Space Mission: 5-Stages Functional Results
16.3 Four-Stage Pulse Tube Cryocooler for NewAthena
16.4 Northrop Grumman NewAthena DM Cryocooler Test Results
16.5 BAE Hybrid Cryocooler Solution for the ESA Athena Mission
16.6 On-Orbit Thermal Performance and Correlation of the SPHEREx Passive Cryogenic System