Conference Program
 
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

January 12-17, 1997
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Douglas K. Finnemore


Sunday, Jan. 12

Charge and Flux Quantization

  • 6:00 pm - Dinner
  • C. J. Lobb, Chair
  • 7:30 pm - M. Tinkham, Harvard - "Discrete energy levels and superconductivity in mesoscopic aluminum islands"
  • 8:10 pm - D. B. Haviland, Chalmers - "Charge and flux duality in distributed superconducting tunneling structures"
  • 8:50 pm - S. M. Girvin, Indiana - "Quantum fluctuations and phase transitions in superconductors"

Monday, Jan. 13

Vortices

  • P. Martinoli, Chair
  • 8:30 am - D. R. Nelson, Harvard - "Localization and winding numbers in vortex matter"
  • 9:15 - A. Schilling, UC Berkeley - "Calorimetric measurement of the latent heat of the vortex-lattice melting in untwinned YBCO"
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:30 am - E. Zeldov, Weizmann - "Vortex lattice phase transitions in highly anisotropic HTSC"
  • 11:15 am - N. Bontemps, ENS Paris - "Microwave losses as a probe of the vortex lattice in BSCCO single crystals"
  • Noon - Poster ads
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
  • 4:30 pm - Poster Session
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

Broad Issues

  • J. Jorgenson, Chair
  • 7:30 pm - M. R. Beasley - "Motion of vortices in 2D disordered superconductors: classical and quantum"
  • 8:15 pm - A. A. Abrikosov, Argonne - "Resonance tunneling mechanism of c-axis transport in layered high-temperature superconducting cuprates"
  • 9:00 pm - D. J. Scalapino - "What simple models tell us about the pairing mechanism"
  • 9:45 pm - Adjourn

Tuesday, Jan. 14

Stripe Phases and Localization

  • V. Emery, Chair
  • 8:30 am - J. M. Tranquada, Brookhaven - "Charge stripes and antiferromagnetism in copper oxide superconductors"
  • 9:15 am - S. A. Kivelson, UCLA - "Spin-gap proximity effect mechanism of high temperature superconductivity"
  • 10:00 - Break
  • 10:30 am - P. C. Hammel , LANL - "Localized holes in lanthanum cuprates"
  • 11:15 am - E. A. Stern , Washington - "How Sr induces superconductivity in LaSrCuO: structural changes"
  • Noon - Poster ads
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
  • 4:30 pm - Poster Session
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

Normal State Properties

  • M. B. Maple, Chair
  • 7:30 pm - G. S. Boebinger, Bell Labs - "Using 60-T to reveal the low-temperature normal state of high-Tc superconductors"
  • 8:15 pm - A. Mackenzie, Cambridge - Low temperature normal and superconducting state properties of Sr2RuO4 and Tl2Ba2CuO6"
  • 9:00 pm - D. M. Ginsberg, Illinois - "Field and temperature dependance of the Hall coefficient of high temperature superconductors"
  • 9:45 - Adjourn

Wednesday, Jan. 15

Materials and Optical Properties

  • Juergen Halbritter, Chair
  • 8:30 am - Qiang Li - "Characteristics of grain boundaries in Bi(2212) bi-crystals"
  • 9:15 am - Z. Fisk - "In-plane hole doping of La2CuO4 and La2NiO4"
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • Manuel Cardona, Chair
  • 10:30 am - T. Timusk, McMasters - "The pseudogap state, and infrared view"
  • 11:15 am - K. Kadowaki, U. of Tsukuba & NRIM - "The Nambu-Goldstone mode in high Tc superconductors: the longitudinal Josephson plasma and Higgs mechanism"
  • Noon - Poster ads
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
  • 4:30 pm - Poster Session
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

Tunneling and Wave Fn Symmetry

  • A. M. Goldman, Chair
  • 7:30 pm - O. Fischer, Geneva - "Tunneling spectroscopy and STS observations of vortices in high temperature superconductors"
  • 8:15 pm - L. H. Greene , Illinois - "Planar tunneling in Y-Pr(123) as a function of crystallographic orientation"
  • 9:00 pm - F. Wellstood, Maryland - "SQUID measurements of the angular dependence of the order parameter in YBCO"
  • 9:45 - Adjourn

Vortices and Nickel Borocarbides

  • P. C. Canfield, Chair
  • 8:30 am - E. M. Forgan - "Latest neutron results on YBCO and BSCCO"
  • 9:15 am - P. L. Gammel, Bell Labs - "Statics and dynamics of the flux line lattice in ErNi2B2C"
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:30 am - C. Dethlefs - "Neutron and X-ray studies of magnetic order in rare earth nickel borocarbides"
  • 11:15 am - W. P. Beyermann, UC Riverside - "Specific heat studies of nickel borocarbides"
  • Noon - Poster ads
  • 12:30 pm - Lunch
  • 4:30 pm - Poster Session
  • 6:00 pm - Dinner

Photoemission

  • D. W. Lynch, Chair
  • 7:30 pm - M. Norman , Argonne - "The normal state of high Tc cuprates: not so normal after all"
  • 8:15 pm - D. S. Dessau, Colorado - "Electromagnetic structure of high Tc superconductors and colossal magnetoresistive oxides"
  • 9:00 pm - B. Beschoten, Wisconsin - "Doping depencence of electronic structure and transport in BSCCO"
  • 9:45 pm - Adjourn

Friday, Jan. 17

  • 9:00 am - Bus leaves for airport

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