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ALMADEN INSTITUTE 2012

IBM RESEARCH – ALMADEN, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 17-18TH, 2012

AGENDA (All sessions will take place in Auditorium A/B)

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17TH 8:00-8:35 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:35-8:50 am Welcome by the Almaden Laboratory Director Michael Karasick

8:50 -9:10 am Introduction – why now! Stuart Parkin, IBM Fellow IBM Almaden Research Center

Session I: Discussion Leader –

9:10 -10:00 am

Interface induced high temperature superconductivity in single unit-cell FeSe films on SrTiO3 Qikun Xue Tsinghua University

10:00-10:50 am

The Holistic Multidisciplinary Empirical Approach to Higher Tc with Possible Evidence for Interfacial Mechanism Paul C. W. Chu Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston

10:50-11:20 am Coffee and Tea Break Session 2: Can theory predict RT SC? Discussion Leader –

11:20-12:10 pm Stay Away from Theorists Mike Norman Argonne National Lab

12:10-1:00 pm Strong Correlations and High Temperature Superconductivity Gabriel Kotliar Rutgers University

1:00-2:20 pm Lunch Session 3: Discussion Leader --

2:20-3:10 pm Superconductivity at Crossover from Localized to Itinerant Electrons John B. Goodenough The University of Texas at Austin

3:10-4:00 pm

Utilizing the proximity of highly polarizable atoms or molecules to mediate an attractive nearest neighbor interaction George Sawatzky UBC Vancouver

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee and Tea Break

4:30-5:20 pm Control of correlated electrons in metal-oxide superlattices Bernhard Keimer Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

5:20-6:10 pm

Panel Discussion Richard Greene, University of Maryland Harold Weinstock, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory Paul Grant, W2AGZ Technologies

6:10-8:30 pm Dinner

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 297K! SYNTHETIC HIGHWAYS TO ROOM TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

ALMADEN INSTITUTE 2012

IBM RESEARCH – ALMADEN, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 17-18TH, 2012

8:30 pm Shuttle to Hotels

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 297K! SYNTHETIC HIGHWAYS TO ROOM TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

ALMADEN INSTITUTE 2012

IBM RESEARCH – ALMADEN, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 17-18TH, 2012

THURSDAY OCTOBER 18TH

Session I: Discussion Leader –

8:25-9:15am Finding New Superconductors: Looking under the Magnetic Lamp Post David Pines UC Davis, ICAM, and UIUC

9:15-10:05am

Possibility of Room Temperature Superconductivity using the Resonating Valence Bond Mechanism Ganapathy Baskaran The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India & Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada

10:05-10:30 am Coffee and Tea Break Session 2:

Discussion Leader

10:30-11:20 am

A Modern Spectroscopic Search for New High Temperature Superconductors Darrell Schlom and Kyle Shen Cornell University

11:20-12:10 pm Magnetism and superconductivity in metal fullerides Matt Rosseinsky University of Liverpool

12:10-1:00 pm Superconductors based on transition metal with large magnetic moment Hideo Hosono Tokyo Institute of Technology

1:00-2:20 pm Lunch

2:20-3:10 pm

High Temperature vs Room Temperature Superconductivity: Lessons from the world of heavy fermion superconductors Piers Coleman Rutgers University

3:10-4:00 pm Novel states using high oxidation state materials Hao Tjeng Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

4:00-4:30 pm Break

4:30-5:20 pm

High Temperature Superconductivity is a Crossover Phenomenon Steve Kivelson Stanford University

5:20-6:10 pm

Panel Discussion Chandra Varma, UC Riverside; Marvin Cohen, UC Berkeley

6:10-8:00 pm Closing Comments / Summary