More than a hundred of the world's top physicists will be attending a major international conference at Lancaster University in the first UK event for 17 years.
The "ULT 2025: Frontiers of Low Temperature Physics" conference is taking place at the Bailrigg campus from August 14-18 2025. The conference was last held in the UK in 2008 at Royal Holloway London.
Since the 1980's Ultra Low Temperature (ULT) conferences have been held every three years as a satellite meeting of the International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT) which this year takes place in Bilbao from August 7-13. Traditionally beginning just after the LT conference, ULT conferences bring together an international community to discuss new and frontier physics in condensed matter systems at temperatures below 1 Kelvin, approaching absolute zero.
The ULT 2025 International Scientific Advisory Committee includes high profile low temperature researchers from more than fifteen countries including recipients of prestigious low temperature physics awards such as the Fritz London Prize and the Simon Memorial Prize.
ULT 2025 Conference Co-Chairs are Lancaster Professors Viktor Tsepelin and Richard Haley, who is also Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Commission on Low Temperature Physics.
Professor Tsepelin said: "We're looking forward to welcoming our friends, colleagues and collaborators from the worldwide low temperature community to share knowledge, new ideas and techniques, and to help shape the future of our field."
ULT 2025 will include sessions on ULT techniques and related quantum technologies, and researchers at the conference will be invited to transfer their knowledge of fundamental physics into technical and applied science. ULT research, from the fundamental to the applied, is a great driver of new science, both experimental and theoretical, and innovative technology. Recent research and development have led to breakthroughs in the understanding of condensed matter systems, influenced other fields such as high energy physics and cosmology, and provided invaluable techniques for new quantum technologies in sensing and information.
Lancaster's ULT Group are global leaders in low temperature physics and technology. They are well known for providing sub-millikelvin low temperature environments with advanced in-house cryogenic engineering, and for their accompanying expertise in ultra-sensitive measurement techniques and the development of specialised instrumentation. Their research quality and excellence has been recognised with four memberships of national science academies - including the Royal Society and the Russian Academy of Sciences - and eight international prizes, honours, and honorary degrees.
The day after the conference, on August 19, Lancaster University will host a memorial event celebrating the life of Physics Professor George Pickett FRS.
