Research conference to heat up Anaheim in mid-June

A major technical meeting on heat transfer research — the 35th National Heat Transfer Conference — is scheduled for June 10-12 at the Anaheim Hilton and Towers Hotel in Anaheim, Calif.

ASME International, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) are sponsoring the event.

The conference gives U.S. heat transfer researchers and practitioners a place to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in the field. The conference is held in the United States for three successive years and in the fourth year, the conference shifts to a non-U.S. site.

The theme of this year's conference, "Emerging Applications in Heat and Mass Transfer," will be explored in a technical program that encompasses fundamentals and applications in bioengineering, electronic cooling, manufacturing, microchannels and microscale transport, as well as more traditional aspects of conduction, convection, radiation and phase change with a broad range of applications.

The program's many special attractions include the plenary lecture "Emerging Applications and Fundamental Challenges in Today's Technology" by Richard Bartholomew, an ASME member and program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. That lecture will take place Sunday, June 10, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Two keynote speeches — "Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology" by ASME Fellow Je-Chin Han and "Research Opportunities at the National Science Foundation" by ASME Fellow Stefan Thynell — will be given from 1 to 2 p.m. that day.

From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., the Max Jakob Award will be conferred upon Vedat S. Arpaci, an ASME Fellow and professor at the University of Michigan. Arpaci will be honored for his important contributions to heat transfer study in a number of areas, including his discoveries on the optical dependence of radiating gas instability, two radiating gas constitutions and the photon-vibration interaction in radiating plasma kinetics.

Sunday's activities will end with a joint reception hosted by ASME and AIAA from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Monday's special events will include two keynote presentations from 1 to 2 p.m.: "Nanoscale Transport Phenomena — Fundamentals and Technological Implications" by Arun Majumdar and "Transport Phenomena in Fuel Cell Systems" by Bernard Baker.

From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Theodore Reginald Bott will receive the Donald Q. Kern Award and deliver the Kern Lecture. Bott, a member of the staff at the University of Birmingham in England, has published more than 300 papers and written four books on heat transfer research.

One of the keynote speeches for Tuesday, June 12 is Christoph Beckermann's "Modeling of Solidification: From Dendrites to Castings." That evening, Larry Dumas, P.E., will speak at the Heat Transfer Annual Awards Banquet, from 7 to 9:30. Dumas, an ASME Fellow, is the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Tickets to the banquet are $46.

Registration is $480 for members of ASME and participating societies, $670 for nonmembers. One-day registration is $290 for members, $390 for nonmembers. Retired ASME Life Members may register for $25. Nonmember students may register for $20. ASME student members and paid registrants' guests may register free of charge. A $50 surcharge will be added after May 18.

To find out more, visit www.asme.org/conf/ht01; or call, (800) 843-2763 or (973) 882-1167, e-mail: infocentral@asme.org.

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