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• Department of Physics
• Brown University
• Box 1843
• Barus Holley Building
• 182 Hope Street
• Providence, RI 02912
• physics @ physics.brown.edu

The BCS Theory of
Superconductivity

Barus Holley, room 190

April 13, 2007
Scientific Program:

9:40 - 10:30
Chairperson: Prof. Michael Kosterlitz
Speaker: J. S. Tsai
Toward Scalable Superconducting Quantum Bits

10:30 - 10:45
Break

10:45 - 11:30
Chairperson: Prof. Robert Pelcovits
Speaker: Eugene Demler
Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems: from Electronic Materials to Cold Atoms

11:35 - 12:20
Chairperson: Prof. Robert Pelcovits
Speaker: Sean Ling
Peak Effect and Bragg Glass Superconductivity

Lunch

1:30 - 2:20
Chairperson: Prof. James Valles
Speaker: Robert Schoelkopf
TBA

2:25 - 3:15
Chairperson: Prof. James Valles
Speaker: Alexei Kitaev
Quantum Devices Based on Superconducting Inductors

3:15 - 3:30
Break

3:30 - 4:15
Chairperson: Prof. James Valles
Speaker: Brad Marston
Gapless Spin Liquids: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

4:15 - 5:00
Chairperson: Prof. James Valles
Speaker: Gang Xiao
Coherent Spin-dependent Tunneling and Spintronics