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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
from collective modes to quantum phase transitions
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May 1 to 3, 2009 -
Preliminary Program
Friday, May 1
8:30 REGISTRATION- Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Atruim
Morning Session, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Cowles Auditorium
8:55 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University,
"Critical Aspects of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition"
9:40 Steve Kivelson, Stanford University,
"Theory of the Superconductor to Metal Transition in Highly Conducting Films"
10:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 Allen Goldman, University of Minnesota,
"Electrostatic Tuning of the Insulator-Superconductor Transition"
11:40 Dan Shahar, Weizmann Institute,
"The Insulator in the Superconductor-Insulator Transition”
12:20 Peter Armitage, The Johns Hopkins University,
"From classical to quantum: Broadband microwave studies of superconducting fluctuations
in 2D InO thin films"
1:00 LUNCH, Holiday Inn Metrodome
Afternoon Session, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Cowles Auditorium
2:30 Zvi Ovadyahu, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Racah Institute of Physics,
"Implications of Inherent Inhomogeneities Near the SIT"
3:10 Philip W. Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
"New Phases with Disordered Bosons"
3:50 COFFEE BREAK
4:20 Aviad Frydman, Bar Ilan, Israel,
"An Analogue Between Superconducting and Ferromagnetic Ultrathin Films"
5:00 Arthur Hebard, University of Florida, Gainesville,
"Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Reduced Dimensions"
5:40 James Valles, Brown University,
"Experiments on a Cooper Pair Insulator"
Morning Session, Hubery H. Humphrey Center, Cowles Auditorium
9:10 Nina Markovic, The Johns Hopkins University,
"Spin and charge transport in quantum dots"
9:30 Subir Sachdev, Harvard University,
"Paired Electron Pockets in the Hole-doped Cuprates"
10:10 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University,
"Cold Atoms Meets Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum Phase Transitions”
11:20 Anand Bhattacharya, Argone National Laboratory,
"Digital Synthesis: A pathway to new materials"
11:40 Chandra Varma,University of California, Riverside,
"Quantum Criticality in the Dissipative xy Model with Applications to Two-dimensional Superconductors and Cuprates"
12:20 LUNCH BREAK, on your own
Afternoon Session, TATE LAB OF PHYSICS, East Bank
1:30 Alumni Talks, 150 Tate Lab
3:00 Break, Main Foyer Tate Lab of Physics
3:30 Alumni Talks, 150 Tate Lab
5:30 Reception, Main Foyer Tate Lab of Physics
6:30 Workshop Dinner, Campus Club, Coffman Union, East Bank
Morning Session, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Cowles Auditorium
9:00 Alexey Bezryadin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
"Search for Quantum Phase Slips in Thin Superconducting Wires"
9:40 Steven Girvin, Yale University,
"Recent Progress in Superconducting Qubits and/or Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers"
10:20 David Haviland, Royal institute of Technology, Sweden,
"The Series Josephson Junction Array"
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Herve Aubin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LPSCI,
"Quenching of Meissner Orbital Diamagnetism in Superconducting Nanocrystals"
12:10 Wenhao Wu, Texas A&M University,
"The Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Quench-Condensed Be"
12:50 Ying Liu, The Pennsylvania State University,
"Unconventional Mesoscopic Superconductors"
1:30 Workshop Closes
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