As part of the “Condensed Matter Physics in the City” summer program, which is funded by SEPnet, there will be four events at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: [Note.- program updated 26/06/2010 and 16/07/2010]
Friday 9 July 2010
Mini-workshop on correlated superconductivity
Conference Room 16, R80 (Target Station-2 building), Rutherford Appleton laboratory
11.00am-11.45am Joerg Schmalian (Ames Laboratory / RHUL)
“Unconventional pairing in the iron pnictides”
11.45am-12.30pm Adrian Hillier (ISIS Facility)
“Time reversal symmetry-breaking in superconductors with and without a centre of inversion”
12.30pm-2.00pm Lunch (in the RAL restaurant)
2.00pm-2.45pm Piers Coleman (Rutgers University / RHUL)
“Tandem Pairing in Heavy Fermion Superconductors”
14.45-15:30 Stephen Blundell (Oxford)
“Magnetism meets superconductivity in iron arsenide superconductors”
15:30-16:15 Amalia Coldea (Bristol)
“quantum oscillations in iron pnictides”
16:15-17:00 Informal discussions + refreshments
Part of Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2010, week 1: Superfluids and Superconductors
Thursday 15 July 2010
Seminar
Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers University)
“Towards an ab-initio theory of correlated materials. The challenge of the iron pnictides.”
At 2pm in the Pickavance Lecture Theatre, R22, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The seminar will be followed by informal discussions over coffee
Part of Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2010, week 2: Materials Physics
Thursday 22 July 2010
Seminars
Senthil Todadri (Massachusetts Institue of Technology)
“Quantum spin liquids and the Mott transition”
Jason Ho (Ohio State University)
“Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms: Challenges and Opportunities ”
At 2pm in the Pickavance Lecture Theatre, R22, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The seminars will be followed by informal discussions over coffee
Part of Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2010, week 3: Quantum Criticality
Friday 30 July 2010
Seminar
Alexei Tsvelik (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Title TBA
At 2pm in the Pickavance Lecture Theatre, R22, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The seminar will be followed by informal discussions over coffee
Part of Condensed Matter Physics in the City 2010, week 4: Quantum Magnetism