Events List

DateEvent TypeSpeaker
01/01/2025Holiday [ + ]
01/22/2025HEP SeminarEvgenii Levlev [ + ]
01/23/2025Pullen Group MeetingPullen [ + ]
01/23/2025Physics Dept ColloquiumAhmed Almheiri [ + ]
01/24/2025CUWiP [ + ]
01/29/2025HEP SeminarSam Leutheusser [ + ]
01/30/2025Pullen Group MeetingPullen [ + ]
01/30/2025Physics Dept ColloquiumPeter Hirschfeld [ -- ]

Title: Superconductivity: There's Plenty of Cream at the Bottom
Abstract: In 1961, Brian Pippard gave a speech at IBM called "The Cat and the Cream", in which he declared that the superconductivity field was finished, at least for "young innocents who wish to break new ground": the cream was gone, and the bowl was empty. I show why the subsequent 6 decades proved him so dramatically wrong, how new materials and experimental techniques have continuously driven new theoretical understandings, such that the field has been constantly renewed, and is in fact a very good place for young researchers to make a career. (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar)