New publications: The CD-ROM proceedings of the 1st IIR International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature

The CD-ROM proceedings of the 1st IIR International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature held in Montreux, Switzerland, are now available. They comprise 4 keynote presentations, 20 papers on materials (gadolinium and its alloys, manganite materials, thermodynamic models, progress in the development of industrial permanent magnets, the barocaloric effect, magnetocaloric effects, phase transition, magnetic entropy change and spin fluctuations, and 15 papers on systems (including performance and modelling of regenerative room-temperature refrigeration cycles, optimization of magnetic refrigerators at room temperature, permanent-magnet and rotary magnetic refrigerators, magnetocaloric-effect heat pumps, design and performance, reciprocating magnetic refrigeration). Price: 35 €.