BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//University of Illinois//Web Services Calendar//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20120214T142529Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090919T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20090919T101500
SUMMARY:Exotic Superconductors: New Mysteries\, Exciting Applications
CREATED:20090513T130000Z
DESCRIPTION:Popular lecture: Superconductivity is one of the most remarka
 ble and potentially useful phenomena ever discovered --- the ability of 
 a material to carry electrical current without any loss of energy by hea
 ting was an amazing and unexpected observation first made almost 100 yea
 rs ago.  The mysterious behavior of superconductors was finally explaine
 d 50 years ago by researchers at the University of Illinois\, led by two
 -time Nobel Laureate John Bardeen.  But now\, the situation has become m
 uch more interesting and much more complex with the discovery of several
  new classes of superconductors that exhibit even more exotic properties
  and offer unique potential for technological impact.  These "unconventi
 onal superconductors" are once again challenging our understanding of co
 ndensed matter physics and the quantum world and may revolutionize our l
 ives through energy transmission\, secure communication\, medical imagin
 g\, and quantum computing. In this talk\, I will describe our quest to c
 haracterize the extraordinary and puzzling properties of the new superco
 nductors and "zoom in" to the quantum world that holds the key to unders
 tanding and exploiting them.
LAST-MODIFIED:20090915T130000Z
LOCATION:141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics\, 1110 W. Green Street\, Urbana
 
CATEGORIES:Outreach
CONTACT:Toni Pitts 217-244-2948
ORGANIZER:tpitts@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/75?key=2000010120000101117958
UID:117958@illinois.edu
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR