In partnership with the APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics
Theme Sessions
Session I -- History, Current Status, Future Prospects
Sunday, March 20, 2011, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Session Chair: Robert Doering, Texas Instruments
1. 1:00PM - 1:40PM
1A.00001: Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Prospects but Challenges
J.C. Seamus Davis, U of Illinois, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell, St. Andrews
http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~jcdavis/2. 1:40PM - 2:20PM
1A.00002: Confirmation of BCS Theory and Its Impact on Applications Past and Future
Malcolm Beasley, Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/group/kgb/3. 2:20PM – 3:30PM
1A.00003: From BCS to Vortices: A 40-Year Personal Journey through Superconductivity from Basic Research to Power Applications
Paul M. Grant, IBM then EPRI
www.w2agz.com
Session II -- Large-scale Applications
(Sunday, March 20, 2011, 3:30pm – 5:30pm)
Session Chair: Kate Kirby, APS
1. 3:30PM - 4:10PM
1B.00001: Superconducting Materials, Magnets and Electric Power Applications
George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.msd.anl.gov/personnel/crabtree/2. 4:10PM - 4:50PM
1B.00002: High Temperature Superconductors for the Electric Power Grid
Alexis P. Malozemoff, American Superconductor
http://www.aip.org/industry/ipf/2011/speakerbios/bio_malozemoff.pdf(Presentation not available)
3. 4:50PM - 5:30PM
1B.00003: Industrial Large Scale Applications of Superconductivity -- Current and Future Trends
Kathleen Amm, General Electric
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kathleen-amm/6/5a0/63a
Session III -- Small-scale Applications
Monday, March 21, 2011, 8:00am – 11:00am)
Session Chair: H. Frederick Dylla, AIP
1. 8:00AM - 8:36AM
A5.00001: Prospects of superconducting qubits for quantum computation
Michel Devoret, Yale
http://www.seas.yale.edu/faculty-detail.php?id=292. 8:36AM - 9:12AM
A5.00002: Superconductor Digital Electronics: -- Current Status, Future Prospects
Oleg Mukhanov, Hypres
http://www.hypres.com/pages/about/manage.htm#muk(Presentation not available)
3. 9:12AM - 9:48AM
A5.00003: Superconducting Receivers for Millimeter and Submillimeter Astrophysics
Paul L. Richards, UC Berkeley
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/Richards.html4. 9:48AM - 10:24AM
A5.00004: The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Axions to Cancer
John Clarke, UC Berkeley
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/clarke.html5. 10:24AM - 11:00AM
A5.00005: Semiconductor Circuit Diagnostics By Magnetic Field Imaging
T. Venkatesan, Neocera and National University of Singapore
http://www.nus.edu.sg/ngs/Research/supervisors_cv/Venky_VENKATESAN.pdf
http://neocera.com/index.html
Session IV – Frontiers in Physics
(Monday, March 21, 2011, 2:30pm – 5:30pm)
Session Chair: Ernesto E. Marinero, Hitachi San Jose Research Laboratory
1. 2:30PM - 3:06PM
D5.00001: Controlling how atoms respond to ultra-intense x-ray radiation
Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/Distinguished_Fellows/young.html2. 3:06PM - 3:42PM
D5.00002: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Dirac Fermions at mK Temperatures
Joseph Stroscio, NIST
http://www.nist.gov/cnst/stroscio.cfm(Presentation not available)
3. 3:42PM - 4:18PM
D5.00003: Topological materials and their potential applications
Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/zhang_shoucheng.html4. 4:18PM - 4:54PM
D5.00004: The Hottest Liquid on the Planet
Barbara Jacak, Stonybrook University
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/physics/forms/profilesearch.cgi?lastname=Jacak&firstname=Barbara5. 4:54PM - 5:30PM
D5.00005: Ultracold polar molecules
Deborah Jin, CU Boulder & JILA
http://jila.colorado.edu/~jin/