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Professor Raymond Viskanta, past Scientific Council member of ICHMT, passed away on December 27, 2021. He was a highly respected researcher known for his many contributions to heat and mass transfer. He will be missed dearly. A memoriam for Ray Viskanta appeared at Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering Department website.

Nukiyama Memorial Award 2020 (NMA2020) recipient is Dr. Ronggui Yang, Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. The award ceremony and memorial lecture will be held at 17:20-18:20 (Japan Standard time) or 8:20-9:20 (Greenwich Mean Time) on October 6, 2021. The ceremony and lecture will be held online at the Second Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (2nd ACTS).

The Heat Transfer Society of Japan solicits nomination for the Nukiyama Memorial Award 2022. The deadline for accepting nominations for the Award is 30 September 2021. 

IEEE NTC Summer School on „Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Advanced Energy Systems" will take place between September 20th and 24th in Romania. 

10th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT-10) will be held in Rhodes island, Greece on May 16-20, 2022.

The CSP4Climate 2020 International Conference will be held online, from 15th to 17th December 2020. CSP4Climate conference adresses improvements on Concentrated Solar Thermal technologies, with the ultimate goal of advancing solid proposals on how to decrease global greenhouse gas emissions. 

6^th X-Report webinar will start at 15:30-17:30 pm (Beijing time), December 26, 2020. The X-Reports aim to invite distinguished professionals from various disciplines and countries to give cutting-edge/breakthrough lectures on an open interactive platform to encourage new ideas and promote innovations in thermal science and engineering. 

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers invites representatives from academia, industry, and policy making and government organizations to participate in the 3rd Solar Energy Systems Conference. 

The on-line memorial to remember Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko will take place on November, 6 (Friday) at 11:00 New York time (16:00 UTC). The memorial will take place via the Zoom platform with live streaming on YouTube.

The recipient of 2019 ICHMT Fellowship award is Professor Jean-Francois SACADURA. 

The recipients of 2019 Hartnett-Irvine award are the authors of the paper titled "Kirchhoff's Law for Anisotropic Media Including Thin Films" presented at the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, RAD-19, Athens, Greece, 2019 by Zhuomin M. Zhang, Xiaohu Wu, Ceji Fu.

Dr. Michael Mishchenko passed away unexpectedly. We extend our condolences to his family and friends.

Next InnoTherm Colloquium "High Thermal Conductivity Materials" will be given on Wednesday, July 22, 10:00 - 11:30 am US EDT (2:00 - 3:30 pm GMT). 

Professor Mário Costa, a member of the Scientific Council of ICHMT, unexpectedly passed away on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. We extend our condolences to his family and friends.

You're invited to the inaugural International Colloquia on Thermal Innovations (InnoTherm). The InnoTherm online colloquium series aims to stimulate and highlight innovations and advances in theory, materials, devices, and systems for efficient thermal energy conversion, storage, transport and utilization.

THMT-20 is postponed to 6-9 July 2021.

CHT-20 is postponed to 2021. The exact dates will be announced later.

Professor Graham de Vahl Davis, past President of ICHMT, passed away on Tuesday, December 24, 2019. We will miss him dearly. We extend our condolences to his family and friends. Please see the memoriam for Graham de Vahl Davis appeared in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 152 (2020) with doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119486.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for CHT-20 has been extended to December 31, 2019.

We sadly learned that ICHMT past Secretary General Professor Naim Afgan passed away on 23.10.2019 in Belgrade. We extend our condolences to his family and friends.

The Heat Transfer Society of Japan solicits nomination for the Nukiyama Memorial Award 2020. The deadline for accepting nominations for the Award is 31 December 2019. Nominators can obtain further information, and download the nomination form, from this web page: http://www.htsj.or.jp/en/nukiyama

Professor Buxuan Wang, a member of the Scientific Council of ICHMT, passed away on August 31, 2019. He was a highly respected professor and researcher known for his many contributions to heat and mass transfer. We extend our condolences to his family and friends.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Ephraim Sparrow August 1, 2019. He was a highly respected professor and researcher known worldwide for his many contributions to all aspects of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. He will be missed by many, researchers and students alike.