Venue
Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden
Scope
This Heraeus binational meeting will address the research frontier created when joining the concepts of quantum geometry with unconventional superconductivity. The theory of superconductivity and superconducting quantum devices has a long tradition in northern and central Europe. Strong activities is also now present in topology nd quantum geometry. However, this field is currently somewhat fragmented due to historical reasons. The idea of a bilateral Germany-Nordic seminar would be to set up a seminar program around these topics, bringing together various strands and providing a discussion forum for the latest developments in unconventional superconductivity and quantum condensates tied together with topology and quantum geometry, which would then have a lasting impact on research.
Confirmed Colloquium and Keynote Speakers
- Prof. Daniel Agterberg (Uni Wisconsin, USA) Keynote: Unconventional superconductivity
- Prof. Immanuel Bloch (Munich, Germany), Colloquium: Quantum geometry of a crystal
- Prof. Piet Brouwer (FU Berlin, Germany), Keynote: Topological Superconductivity
- Prof. Floriana Lombardi (Chalmers, Sweden) Keynote: Unconventional superconductivity
- Prof. John Saunders (RHUL, UK) Keynote: Superfluid 3He in confined geometries
- Prof. Päivi Törmä (Aalto University, Finland) Keynote: Quantum geometry and transport
Proposed tutorial leaders
- Prof. Matthias Eschrig (Greifswald, Germany), Tutorial: Superconducting Spintronics
- Prof. Anna Delin (KTH, Sweden) Tutorial: Density functional theory
- Prof. Jose Lado (Aalto, Finland) Tutorial: Correlated 2D materials
Topical speakers (will be listed as confirmed)
- Christoph Strunk (Regensburg, Germany)
- Katharina Franke (Berlin, Germany)
- Tero T Heikkilä (Jyväskylä, Finland)
- Julia Mayer (Grenoble, France)
- Laura Classen (Munich, Germany)
- .....
Preliminary program
We envision a program that spans three days and includes an additional tutorial day before the actual program starts. For the latter we aim at having three tutorials giving insight into three relevant theoretical methods, see speaker list. The tutorial speakers will also be invited to give a talk during the seminar later. The tutorial day will include hands-on demonstrations of numerical techniques and an exercise session to practice the content. For the seminar, each day will consist of a number of keynote and topical presentations. The keynotes (35 + 10 min) are aimed to give an overview of our main topics, while the topical (20 + 5 min) are more specialized and focused of selected topics. We will also have a set of presentations, short talks or posters by early career scientists. An open colloquium within the Niels Bohr colloquium series of Nordita will be integrated into the program on day 2. An extensive poster session will be organized around the open colloquium.
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