1. NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories

Saturday, January 10

17:00-20:00

Registration and reception, Holiday Inn-University Hotel (1350 S. Dixie Hwy., Coral Gables)

07:45-08:15

Continental breakfast

08:15-08:30

Openning remarks and greetings by:

George C. Alexandrakis, Chairman, University of Miami Physics Department

James H. Wyche, Dean, University of Miami College of Arts and Science

Session N1 - Chair: Davor Pavuna (08:30-10:00)

08:30

J.C. Seamus Davis:

Fourier transform STS studies of superconducting Bi-2212: doping dependence of electronic structure
 

09:00

Ivan Bozovic:

Giant proximity effect in cuprate superconductors
 

09:30

Evgenii G. Maksimov:

What is known and what is unknown about HTSC
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session N2 - Chair: Antonio Bianconi (10:30-12:00)

10:30

Christos Panagopoulos:

Spin dynamics, unconventional superconductivity and critical behaviour in high-T_c cuprates
 

10:52

Nigel E. Hussey:

Full three-dimensional Fermi surface of overdoped Tl₂Ba₂CuO_6+d as revealed by angular magnetoresistance oscillation
 

11:15

Alessandra Lanzara:

Anomalously strong isotope dependence of the quasiparticle dynamics in cuprates superconductors
 

11:37

Dirk Manske:

Elementary excitations in high-T_c cuprates: contrasting spin fluctuations versus phonons

Poster ads - Chair: Fulin Zuo (12:00-12:15)

12:15-14:00

Lunch break

Poster Session P1 - see list of contributers below (14:00-15:00)

Session N3 - Chair: Nicole Bontemps (15:00-16:30)

15:00

Guy Deutscher:

Andreev - Saint James reflections as a tool for the study of unconventional superconductivity
 

15:30

Henri Alloul:

NMR studies of insulating, metallic and superconducting fulleride compounds: importance of correlations and Jahn-Teller distortions
 

16:00

Laszlo Forro:

Tunneling characteristics of BiSCO
 

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

Session N4 - Chair: Vladimir Kresin (17:00-18:30)

17:00

Michael S. Osofsky:

Superconductivity Near The Metal/Insulator Transition: A New Perspective on Unconventional Superconducting Materials
 

17:22

Israel Felner:

Superconductivity and magnetism in the ruthenates and molybdates
 

17:45

Takashi Imai:

⁵⁹Co and ²³Na NMR in Na_xCoO₂ and Na_0.3CoO₂-1.3H₂O
 

18:07

Gregory Teitelbaum:

The low frequency magnetic fluctuations in the superconducting cuprates

Monday, January 12

08:00-08:30

Continental breakfast

Session N5 - Chair: Alessandra Lanzara (08:30-10:00)

08:30

Joerg Fink:

High-T_c superconductors: new insights from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
 

09:00

Juan Carlos Campuzano:

An ARPES exploration of the phase diagram of the high temperature superconductors
 

09:30

Davor Pavuna:

High-T_c Films in Direct Synchrotron Light: Electronic Properties, Strain and T_c Enhancement
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session N6 - Chair: Joshua Cohn (10:30-12:00)

10:30

Vladimir Kresin:

The "PSEUDOGAP" phenomenon
 

10:52

Felix Vidal:

In-plane conductivity induced by superconducting fluctuations in La_2-xSr_xCuO₄ thin films well above T_c: Independence of the normal-state pseudogap
 

11:15

Mikhail Trunin:

Pseudogap in the microwave response of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x
 

11:37

Lambert Alff:

A hidden pseudogap under the 'dome' of superconductivity in electron-doped high-temperature superconductors

Poster ads - Chair: Fulin Zuo (12:00-12:15)
 

12:15-14:00

Lunch break

Poster Session P1 - continued (14:00-15:00)

Session N7 - Chair: Tom Timusk (15:00-16:30)

15:00

Dirk van der Marel:

POWERLAW optical conductivity with a constant phase angle in high T_c superconductors
 

15:30

David B. Tanner:

The superfluid density of the cuprate superconductors estimated using infrared spectroscopy
 

16:00

Girsh Blumberg:

Competing order parameters in quasi-1D and 2D cuprates
 

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

Session N8 - Chair: Annette Bussman-Holder (17:00-18:30)

17:00

Meir Weger:

Enhanced electron-phonon coupling due to near-ferroelectricity in the cuprates
 

17:22

Roman Micnas:

Superconductivity in systems with coexisting itinerant fermions and local pairs
 

17:45

Sergei G. Ovchinnikov:

Electronic structure and its evolution with doping in cuprates with account for strong electron correlations
 

18:07

Ivana Mrkonjic:

Oxygen-Related Band-Features of the Extended Emery Model for the HTS Cuprates

Tuesday, January 13

08:00-08:30

Continental breakfast

Session N9 - Chair: Ivan Bozovic (08:30-10:00)

08:30

Alan R. Bishop:

Elasticity-controlled soft electronics in transition metal oxides: correlated percolation and inhomogeneous macroscopic responses
 

09:00

Takeshi Egami:

Electron-Phonon Interaction in HTSC Cuprates and Watery Cobaltates
 

09:30

Joerg Strempfer:

Anisotropic spin dynamics and oxygen vacancy order in (Y,Ca)Ba₂Cu₃O_6.95
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session N10 - Chair: Girsh Blumberg (10:30-12:00)

10:30

Philippe Bourges:

Spin dynamics in the high-T_C cuprates
 

11:00

Tom Timusk:

The disappearance of the 41 meV resonance peak in the highly overdoped Bi-2212 system
 

11:30

Mikhail Eremin:

Dynamical charge and spin susceptibilities in t-J-V model at Tc

Poster ads - Chair: Peter Meier (12:00-12:15)

12:15-14:00

Lunch break

Poster Session P2 - see list of contributers below (14:00-15:00)

Session N11 - Chair: Takeshi Egami (15:00-16:30)

15:00

Dragan Mihailovic:

Dynamic inhomogeneity and broken symmetry in cuprates
 

15:30

Lev P. Gor'kov:

Pseudogap regime and phase segregation in high-T_c cuprates as seen by NMR experiments
 

16:00

Josef Ashkenazi:

Stripe-Like inhomogeneities, pairing, coherence, and the physics of the high-T_c Cuprates
 

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

Session N12 - Chair: Michael Osofsky (17:00-18:30)

17:00

Assa Auerbach:

The Plaquette Boson Fermion Model For Cuprates
 

17:22

Nikolay Plakida:

Antiferromagnetic exchange and spin-fluctuation pairing mechanisms in cuprates
 

17:45

Jozef Spalek:

Spin singlet vs. triplet pairing induced by exchange interaction
 

18:07

Boris B. Fine:

Hypothesis of two-dimensional stripe arrangement and its implications for the superconductivity of high-T_c cuprates

Wednesday, January 14

08:00-08:30

Continental breakfast

Session N13 - Chair: Igor Mazin (08:30-10:00)

08:30

Antonio Bianconi:

High T_c in heterostructures at atomic limit in cuprates and diborides
 

08:52

Annette Bussmann-Holder:

The role of anharmonicity within a two component scenario for HTSC
 

09:15

Igor K. Yanson:

Phonon structure in point contact spectra of MgB₂
 

09:37

Janusz Karpinski:

Anisotropic properties and substitutions in MgB₂ single crystals
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session N14 - Chair: Warren Pickett (10:30-12:00)

10:30

Igor I. Mazin:

Two-band superconductivity in MgB₂: solved and unsolved problems
 

10:52

Oleg V. Dolgov:

Thermodynamic and electrodynamic properties of the two-band superconductor MgB₂
 

11:15

Ricardo Lobo:

The non equilibrium dynamics of the two gaps in MgB₂ and interband scattering
 

11:37

Vitaly A. Gasparov

Is ZrB₁₂ d-wave superconductor?

12:00-13:30

Lunch break

Session N15 - Chair: Dirk Manske (13:30-15:00)

13:30

Christian Pfleiderer:

Partial order and superconductivity of itinerant-electron ferromagnets
 

13:52

Dirk K. Morr:

First order superconducting transition near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point
 

14:15

Karl H. Bennemann

Spin dynamics in the normal state of triplet superconductor Sr₂RuO₄
 

14:37

Daniel F. Agterberg:

Spin-triplet pairing without inversion symmetry: MnSi and CePt₃Si

South Beach visit and Workshop Banquet at Montey's South Beach restaurant
 
 
 

Contributers to Poster Session P1 - Chair: Fulin Zuo
 

2. Symposium on Emerging Mechanisms for High Temperature Superconductivity (SEMHTS)

Thursday, January 15

08:00-08:30

Continental breakfast

Session S1 - Chair: Josef Ashkenazi (08:30-10:00)

08:30

Philip W. Anderson:

Asymmetric tunneling conductivity as evidence for the RVB-Gutzwiller model for the cuprates
 

09:00

Chandra M. Varma:

A Theory of High Temperature Superconductivity that works
 

09:30

David Pines:

Pseudogap behavior in underdoped cuprates
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session S2 - Chair: Stewart Barnes (10:30-12:00)

10:30

Patrick A. Lee:

Cuprates and cobaltates as strongly correlated superconductors
 

11:00

Warren E. Pickett:

Charge- and spin-ordering tendencies in Na_xCoO₂ at x=1/3
 

11:30

Jan Zaanen:

Duality in 2+1D quantum elasticity: superconductivity and nematic orders

Poster ads - Chair: Peter Meier (12:00-12:15)

12:15-14:00

Lunch break

Poster Session P2 - continued (14:00-15:00)

Session S3 - Chair: YungWoo Park (15:00-16:30)

15:00

Kazunori Takada:

Structures and superconducting properties of sodium cobalt oxides
 

15:30

C.W. Paul Chu:

The Specific Heat and the NQR Studies on Na_xCoO₂·yH₂O
 

16:00

James S. Brooks:

Magnetic-field induced superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in pi-d electron materials
 

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

Session S4 - Chair: Sunil Sinha (17:00-18:30)

17:00

Stewart E. Barnes:

Superconductivity and phase separation in a constraint satisfying formalism of the t-J-model
 

17:22

Arun Bansil:

Strong electron correlation and matrix element effects in ARPES from cuprates
 

17:45

Sung-Ho Salk:

High T_c superconductivity in association with coupling between spin and charge degrees of freedom
 

18:07

Kurt Scharnberg:

Effects of disorder with finite range on the properties of d-wave superconductors

Friday, January 16

08:00-08:30

Continental breakfast

Session S5 - Chair:Henri Alloul (08:30-10:00)

08:30

Migaku Oda:

Electronic excitation spectra near T_c in Bi2212: a tunneling study
 

08:52

Sunil K. Sinha:

Observation of Charge Density Waves in underdoped and optimally doped YBCO by diffuse X-Ray scattering
 

09:15

Ken-Ichi Kumagai:

Antiferromagnetic vortex core in HTSC studied by spatially-resolved NMR
 

09:37

Peter F. Meier:

Re-assessment of the interpretation of NMR and muSR data on cuprate superconductors
 

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Session S6 - Chair: C.W. Paul Chu (10:30-12:00)

10:30

YungWoo Park:

Phase diagram of La_2-xSr_xCuO₄ at high temperatures based on thermoelectric power
 

10:52

Jan A. Jung: TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF IN-PLANE RESISTIVITY OF YBCO: Transformation from superlinear to linear dependence at fixed oxygen content
 

11:15

Yoram Dagan:

Evidence for a quantum phase transition in the electron-doped cuprate Pr_2-xCe_xCuO_4-d from Hall and resistivity measurements
 

11:37

Andrei A. Varlamov

Phenomenology of fluctuations in superconductors: applications to HTS and nanoobjects

12:00-13:30

Lunch break

Session S7 - Chair: Arun Bansil (13:30-15:00)

13:30

Richard A. Klemm:

The c-axis twist experiments in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+d  bicrystals and cross-whiskers: Strong evidence for an s-wave symmetry of the superconducting order parameter
 

13:52

Dale R. Harshman:

Nodeless Pairing State Symmetry in YBa₂Cu₃O₇
 

14:15

John D. Dow:

Unified theory of high-T_c superconductivity
 

14:37

James C. Phillips:

Why are cuprates the only high-temperature superconductors?

Miami Skyline city tour (for those who choose to stay)
 

Saturday, January 17

Everglades half-day tour (for those who choose to stay)
 
 
 

Contributers to Poster Session P2 - Chair: Peter Meier
 

If you have any question or comment concerning the workshop program, etc., please contact us at:

HTS04@physics.miami.edu