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