Post-Conference Trip
23-26 May 2013

Guided 4-day walking & discovery tour

Amalfi Coast

Walking through the Italian Paradise

Amalfi & Atrani, Ravello, ‘Sentiero degli Dei'

(download programme and tour details)

For further information or to reserve your place you can contact Genius Loci Travel in the following ways:

• by e-mail: JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING or  JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
• by telephone: +39 089 791 896 (English, Italian & German spoken)

Accommodations

Grand Hotel Vesuvio **** - Conference Venue

Via Nastro Verde 7 - 80067 Sorrento (NA) Italy

The Grand Hotel Vesuvio, built and furnished in a modern style, is located in a charming position, overlooking the enchanting Bay of Naples and right opposite Vesuvius. It offers: large swimming pools with separate section for children, gardens, extensive lemon and orange groves, wide lounges, conference rooms, garage, parking, solarium, children's playground, free shuttle bus into town (click here to check the times), restaurants, bars.

There is also the possibility of booking rooms (only for a reduced number) at lowest price (slightly smaller, without balcony overlooking the garden)

Ulisse Deluxe Hostel ***

Via del Mare 22 80067 Sorrento (NA) Italy
Distance from Conference Venue: 2 km

A few steps from the historical centre of Sorrento, the Hostel Ulisse Deluxe offers you a dream vacation in a pleasant and elegant structure that unites together the quality and services of a 3 star hotel in Sorrento and at the same time offers the rates and atmosphere of a family hostel.

The extraordinary position of Ulisse Deluxe allows you to comfortably visit every corner of Sorrento, starting with the famous Corso Italia lined with shops and attractions such as the side streets in the historical centre and the Churches to the romantic and suggestive atmospheres offered by Marina Grande.

Hotel Villa Fernanda ***

Via dei Campi, 14 80064 S. Agata su due Golfi (NA) Italy
Distance from Conference Venue: 5,7 km

Located in the center of Sant´Agata sui due Golfi in the center of Sorrento peninsula. The Hotel has a relaxing garden and a wonderful pool. In the rooms you can take all comforts: air conditioning centralized, telephone, TV SAT. We have a large parking for your car and free Wi-Fi Internet connection in the hall.

Hotel Savoia ***

Via Fuorimura, 46 80067 Sorrento (NA) Italy
Distance from Conference Venue: 2,7 km

The Hotel Savoia is a little 3 stars hotel in Sorrento town-center.

Even if it is provided with every kind of comfort, the hotel will let you feel at home. This thanks to the fact that it is a family business hotel, which doesn’t neglect the opportunity to make you feel like welcome guests and not like clients.

SITA Bus Timetable

The Organization of the Conference will not provide a transfer service.

If your accommodation is in another Hotel (Not the Conference Venue Grand Hotel Vesuvio) we recommend you to take the bus from Sorrento to Sant'Agata following the connections here below indicated:

Post-Conference Trip
23-26 May 2013

Guided 4-day walking & discovery tour

Amalfi Coast

Walking through the Italian Paradise

Amalfi & Atrani, Ravello, ‘Sentiero degli Dei'

(download programme and tour details)

For further information or to reserve your place you can contact Genius Loci Travel in the following ways:

• by e-mail: JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING or  JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
• by telephone: +39 089 791 896 (English, Italian & German spoken)

Symposium 1 (short session, two days)

Superconductivity: materials, physical properties and applications.

Chairs:

• C. Ferdeghini(CNR SPIN, Italy)
• D. Larbalestier (Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA)
• A. Ustinov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Invited speaker:

• T. Dahm (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• A. Brinkman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• V. V. Ryazanov (Institute of Solid State Physics Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russia)
• M. Beasley (Stanford University, USA)
• R. De Renzi (University of Parma, Italy)
• F. Parmigiani (University of Trieste, Italy)

Topics addressed in this symposium are:

• Challenges in superconductivity, new materials and unconventional superconductors;
• Tunnelling, Josephson and coherent phenomena in junctions and devices based on unconventional superconductors;
• Pairing mechanisms and electro-magnetic properties of novel superconductors
• Topological superconductivity