WELCOME TO INDIAN CRYOGENICS COUNCIL
The Indian Cryogenics Council (ICC) is a professional society with its registered headquarter at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata. It was founded in the year 1975 by the great visionary, Prof. Akshayananda Bose of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. ICC also started publishing a scientific journal “Indian Journal of Cryogenics” which is published regularly to-date and has become very popular among the Indian cryogenic community. ICC organizes “National Conference on Cryogenics and Superconductivity (NCCS)” every alternate year which attracts peers, young researchers from all the prestigious institutes in India. ICC also had the privilege of holding the twin International Conference (ICEC-26 and ICMC-2016) in the year 2016. ICC promotes close collaboration between the cryogenic research institutions and the industry.
With the establishment of Low Temperature Physics Division comprising of physicists trained at Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory and Cambridge Uni as early as 1952, the Low temperature studies (down to 1Kelvin) flourished at NPL for decades. This culture spread to other reputed institutions like TIFR Bombay, IISc. Bangalore and later to DAE Centres, IITs and universities.
During 1990s a number of ambitious projects were launched in India at a few selected research centres. These were: Particle Accelerators based upon superconducting magnets and cavities, at IUAC, New Delhi and TIFR Bombay, Fusion Reactor SST-1, using large superconducting magnets at IPR, Gandhinagar, and Superconducting Cyclotron at VECC, Kolkata. ICC too expanded its network. These projects injected new blood into the cryogenic activities in the country. Production of LHe and LN2 grew leaps and bound. Young scientists and engineers got involved in designing and fabricating complicated cryostats, large superconducting coils and magnets and superconducting cavities and so on. These projects are bearing fruits now.
The life membership of ICC is over 600. The symposia and conferences organised by ICC have become most awaited events. ICC is celebrating 2025 as the Golden Jubilee Year.