Conference Program
 
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

September 9-14, 2001
The Queen's College
Oxford, United Kingdom

Chairs:
Peter B. Littlewood & Victor J.. Emery

Vice Chair:
Thomas Timusk

Sunday 9th September
19:30-21:30Opening
Discussion leader: PB Littlewood
19:30G Lonzarich: Magnetically mediated superconductivity
20:15 B.Batlogg: Superconductivity in polyacenes
21:00Shimizu, Katsuya: Search for Superconductivity in magnetic elements under high pressure
Monday 10th September
9-12:30Cuprates I
Discussion leader: G. Blumberg
Bourges, P: Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in high-Tc cuprates
Aeppli, G: spin magnetism of the vortex state in the cuprates
Van der Marel, D: Pairing-induced color changes in superconductors
Johnson, PD: High Resolution Photoemission Studies of Self Energy Effects in High Tc Superconductors
Shen, Z-X: Recent data from high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission experiments
Orenstein, J.: Quasiparticle dynamics in YBCO crystals as seen by time-resolved optical spectroscopy
19:30-21:30Cuprates II
Discussion leader: L. Taillefer
Greene, RG: Tunneling and specific heat measurements of electron-doped cuprates
Blumberg, G: Nonmonotonic d_{x^2-y^2} Superconducting Order Parameter in Electron Doped Cuprates
Giannetta, R: Field dependent penetration depth measurements in modern superconductors
Hammel, C.: Glassy Spin Freezing in Lanthanum Cuprate
Tuesday 11th September
9-12:30Cuprates III
Discussion leader: D Van der Marel
Basov, D: Infrared spectroscopy of high-Tc superconductors: recent results
Uchida, S.: Effect of nano-scale inhomogeneity in high-Tc cuprates on the transport and optical properties
Pan, S.: Impurity and Inhomogeneity in High-Tc Superconductor BSCCO
Yazdani, A.: Direct STM tunneling into a CuO2 plane
Greene, LH: Spectroscopic Searches for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in High-Temperature Superconductors
Senthil, T: Electron fractionalization and cuprate superconductivity
19:30-21:30Mesoscopics
Discussion leaders: A. Morpurgo
Courtois, H: Local spectroscopy of a proximity superconductor at very low temperature
Baselmans JJA: The controllable pi-SQUID
Gueron, S: Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes
Altshuler, B: Interaction between electrons in normal and superconducting grains with disorder
Wednesday 12th Sept
9-12:30Mostly Heavy fermions
Discussion leader: S.S.Saxena
Sato, N K: Magnetic-Exciton Mediated Superconductivity in UPd2A13
Huth, M: Thin films of superconducting heavy fermion systems - present status, new results and future challenges
Sarrao, J: CeMIn5 (M=Co, Ir, Rh): A new family of heavy Fermion superconductors
Huxley, A: Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in UGe2
Kambe, S: Superconductivity in the magnetically frustrated system Cd2Re2O7
Proust, C: Thermal conductivity of overdoped cuprates: Fermi liquids or not?
Meeson, P: dHvA in the mixed state of YNi2B2C: The influence of lattice dynamical effects and other matters
Lunch
19:30-21:30Vortex dynamics
Discussion leader: M Dodgson
van der Beek, K: Supercooling of the disordered vortex lattice in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta
Bending, S: Crossing lattices, vortex pumps and re-entrant sublimation in layered superconductors
Koshelev A: Crossing vortex lattices in layered superconductors
Hoogeboom, B.: Shape and motion of vortex cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta
Thursday 13th September
9-12:30 Ruthenates
Discussion leader: A Mackenzie, Y Maeno
Maeno, Yoshi: Intro to mechanisms and symmetry of the superconductivity in Sr2RuO4.
Sigrist, Manfred: Phenomenology of the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4
Braden, Markus: Magnetic excitations in 214-ruthenates
van Harlingen, Dale: Determining the Magnitude and Phase Anisotropy of the Order Parameter in Sr2RuO4 and other Unconventional Superconductors
Zhitomirsky, Mike: Interband proximity effect in Sr2RuO4
Taillefer, Louis: Ultrasound attenuation in Sr2RuO4: nodal structure of the gap function
Matsuda, Yuji: Probing the gap structure of unconventional superconductors by thermal conductivity
Evening sessionClosing
Panel Discussion leader: PB Littlewood, T Timusk

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