The Superfluid Universe
The meeting will bring together leading experts working in the area of supefluids and superconductors and related macroscopic condensates. This is a very exciting area of theoretical and experimental research with a large number of new results, concepts and unexpected connections between the behavior in different condensed matter materials and between different branches of modern physics, ranging from nuclear physics to astrophysics.
Workshop organizers:
- Ali Alpar (alpar@sabanciuniv.edu)
Sabanci University, Turkey - Gordon Baym (baym@bethe.physics.uiuc.edu)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Joerg Schmalian (schmalian@ameslab.gov)
DOE Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, USA
Contact information:
- Rose Romero (rbromero@lanl.gov)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scope of the Workshop
There are many unsolved problems of fundamental importance related to the the emergence of a macroscopic condensate. In addition, 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal work by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer, explaining conventional superconductivity. The meeting is concerned with the new physics of superconductivity and superfluidity in condensed matter systems and beyond. While the main emphasis should be on developments in the field of condensed matter physics, and particularly in the area of strongly correlated systems, we plan to broaden the discussion and invite several speakers from outside condensed matter physics.
Invited Speakers
- Ali Alpar
- PW Anderson
- Victor Barzykin
- Gordon Baym
- Piers Coleman
- Andrey Chubukov
- Seamus Davis
- Kazushi Kanoda
- Philip Phillips
- Mal Ruderman
- Subir Sachdev
- Jim Sauls
- Daniel Sheehy
- Dam Thanh Son
- Frank Steglich
- Ali Yazdani
Participation
The objective of this workshop is to bring together scientists whose research focuses on understanding the microscopic emergence of a superfluid condensate state in a broad range of physical systems. We envision approximately 40 participants from the international community, comprised of both senior and junior researchers.
