TRANSPORTATIONBY PLANE: The airports nearest to College Park are Baltimore/Washington International (25 miles/40 km), Reagan National (16 miles/26 km) and Dulles International Airport (37 miles/60km).

BY TRAIN: Amtrak has services to Union Station train station in Washington, DC (8 miles/14 km).

BY METRO: The light rail Metro Train has a stop in College Park, with access from Union Station train station and Regan National airport.

ACCOMMODATION

For information on other area hotels, visit the University of Maryland visitor website at www.cvs.umd.edu/visitors/offcampus.html

PROGRAM SECRETARIAT

MRS. MARY BAUGHERCenter for Environmental Energy Engineering University of Maryland 4164 Glenn Martin Hall College Park, MD, 20742, USA Tel. +1-301-405-5439 email: mbaugher@umd.edu Website: www.ceee.umd.edu/ISHPC

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Senior representatives of engineering, marketing and product development companies

• Innovation leaders• Professors, researchers, teachers, and students• Material and system designers• Professional engineers• Production and operation managers• Policy makers

REGISTRATION

Online registration and conference papers submission system will be available in fall 2019. www.ceee.umd.edu/events/THERMAG2020

IMPORTANT DATES

JULY 01, 2019 Abstract submission starts

AUG. 30, 2019 Abstract submission deadline

OCT. 30, 2019 Abstract acceptance notification and instructions

FEB. 28, 2020 Last day for pre-registration for the conference.

JUN. 7-11, 2020 THERMAG Conference

JUN. 7, 2020 Welcome Reception

Jun. 9, 2020 Conference Dinner

JUN. 10, 2020 Conference Closing

JUN. 11, 2020 Technical Tours

9th International Conference on Caloric Cooling and Applications of Caloric Materials (THERMAG IX)

June 7-11, 2020 University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF REFRIGERATION Commissions B1, B2, A1 with E2

First call for papers and abstracts: August 30, 2019

SPONSORED BY

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

The THERMAG-IX serves as a forum to present and discuss information on the latest progress in research and development of caloric cooling material and device technology. Specifically, the following topics will be presented:

• Magnetocaloric materials• Elastocaloric materials• Barocaloric materials• Electrocaloric materials• Caloric devices for cooling/heat pumping• Caloric applications at refrigeration• Thermocaloric energy conversion• Resource basis & recycling of caloric materials• Standardization & terminology of caloric

materials

CONFERENCE FORMAT

• Welcome reception, conference dinner, closing ceremony

• Plenary sessions with distinguished speakers• Keynote presentations• Regular oral presentations and posters• Panel discussions• Exhibition of state-of-the-art technologies and

laboratory equipment• Side events – workshop and technical tours

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Yunho Hwang, United States yhhwang@umd.eduReinhard Radermacher, United States raderm@umd.eduIchiro Takeuchi, United States takeuchi@physics.umd.edu

CONFERENCE HISTORY

This conference series was started with International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature in the early 2000s and has continued since then with conferences held every two years worldwide.

2005 1st, Montreux, Switzerland2007 2nd, Portorož, Slovenia2009 3rd, Iowa, USA2010 4th, Baotou, China2012 5th, Grenoble, France2014 6th, Victoria, Canada2016 7th, Turin, Italy2018 8th, Darmstadt, Germany2020 9th College Park, USA

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Jader Barbosa, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)

Ekkes Brück, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)

Asaya Fujita, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan)

Oliver Gutfleisch, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)

Andrej Kitanovski, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Afef Lebouc, Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de Grenoble G2ELAB (France)

Vitalij Pecharsky, Ames Lab (USA)Nini Pryds, Technical University of Denmark

(Denmark)Andrew Rowe, University of Victoria (Canada)Karl Sandeman (chair), Brooklyn (USA)Fengxia Hu, Institute of Physics, ChinaIchiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland (USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Omar Abdelaziz, ORNL, USA Franca Albertini, University of Parma ItalyVikrant Aute, University of Maryland, USAJader Barbosa, Federal University of Santa

Catarina, BrazilAlexander Barcza, Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co.,

GermanyEkkes Brück, Delft University of Technology,

NetherlandsTao Cao, University of Maryland, USALesley Cohen, Imperial College London, UKSebastian Fähler, Leibniz IFW Dresden, GermanyBrian Fricke, ORNL, USAAsaya Fujita, National Institute of Advanced

Industrial Science and Technology, JapanMarkus Gruner, University Duisburg-Essen

GermanyOliver Gutfleisch, Technische Universität

Darmstadt, GermanyHuilong Hou, University of Maryland, USA Andrej Kitanovski, University of Ljubljana,

SloveniaAfef Lebouc, Electrique de Grenoble G2ELAB,

FranceJiazhen Ling, University of Maryland, USAAyyoub Momen, ORNL, USA Xavier Moya, University of Cambridge, UKVitalij Pecharsky, Ames Lab., USAAntoni Planes, University of Barcelona, SpainNini Pryds, Technical University of Denmark,

DenmarkAndrew Rowe, University of Victoria, Canada Karl Sandeman, Brooklyn College, USAJulie Staunton, University of Warwick, UKQiming Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, USA