SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
from collective modes to quantum phase transitions
- May 1 to 3, 2009 -

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Invited and Confirmed Speakers

Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University,
From classical to quantum: Broadband microwave studies of superconducting fluctuations
in 2D InO thin films

Herve Aubin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LPSCI,
Quenching of Meissner orbital diamagnetism in superconducting nanocrystals

Alexey Bezryadin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Search for quantum phase slips in thin superconducting wires

Guy Deutscher, Tel Aviv University,
What we have learned about the cuprates from Andreev - Saint-James reflections

Aviad Frydman, Bar Ilan, Israel,
An analogue between superconducting and ferromagnetic ultrathin films

Steven Girvin, Yale University,
Recent Progress in Superconducting Qubits and/or Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers

David Haviland, Royal institute of Technology, Sweden,
The Series Josephson Junction Array

Arthur Hebard, University of Florida, Gainesville,
Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in reduced dimensions

Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University,
Critical Aspects of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition

Steve Kivelson, Stanford University,
Theory of the superconductor to metal transition in highly conducting films

Ying Liu, The Pennsylvania State University,
Unconventional mesoscopic superconductors

Zvi Ovadyahu, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Racah Institute of Physics,
Implications of inherent inhomogeneities near the SIT

Philip W. Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
New phases with disordered bosons

Subir Sachdev, Harvard University,
Paired electron pockets in the hole-doped cuprates

Dan Shahar, Weizmann Institute,
The insulator in the superconductor-insulator transition

Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University,
Role of strong correlations in making high Tc superconductors robust against disorder

James Valles, Brown University,
Experiments on a Cooper Pair Insulator

Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside,
Quantum Criticality in the dissipative xy model with applications to two-dimensional superconductors and Cuprates

Wenhao Wu, Texas A&M University,
The Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Quench-Condensed Be