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Emergence of new exotic states at interfaces with superconductors

27 - 28 March 2014 09:00 - 17:00

Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Jason Robinson, Professor Lesley Cohen, Professor Matthias Eschrig and Professor Alexander Brinkman

Event details

Radically new science has recently emerged at the interface between superconducting and non-superconducting materials via the proximity effect. These advances open up tantalising possibilities in spin-electronics and quantum computing, stimulating extreme interest in the scientific community. This meeting will draw together the range of specialisms essential to develop full understanding, realisation and exploitation of these new superconductivity mediated phenomena.

Biographies of the key contributors are available below and you can also download a programme (PDF). Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page shortly after the event.

Attending this event

This is a residential conference, which allows for increased discussion and networking. It is free to attend, however participants need to cover their accommodation and catering costs if required.

Places are limited, therefore pre-registration is essential. Please either:

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Organisers

  • Dr Jason Robinson, University of Cambridge UK

    Jason Robinson read Materials Science at Imperial College London (2000-2004), then went on to a PhD at Cambridge University in 2004. In 2011, he was elected to a University Research Fellowship at the Royal Society and in 2015 was appointed a lecturer at Cambridge University then a Readership in 2016 in the Department of Materials Science. He leads a research group that focuses on understanding the fundamental properties of functional materials and spintronics, with major achievements including the discovery of spin-polarised triplet Cooper pairs, which led to the field of superconducting spintronics.

  • Professor Lesley Cohen, Imperial College London, UK

    Professor Lesley Cohen is a professor of solid state physics studying the fundamental behaviour of materials and devices with unusual electronic, optical, superconducting or magnetic properties for a variety of applications including solid state efficient and environmentally friendly magnetic refrigeration. Over a number of years her group has developed a suite of characterisation tools that have enabled unique insight into the behaviour of materials at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. She has published over 350 journal publications in her areas of interest.

  • Professor Matthias Eschrig, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Matthias Eschrig is Professor of Physics and leads the Condensed Matter Theory group at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has a PhD from University of Bayreuth (1997) and obtained his Habilitation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2005), after having spent time in USA at Northwestern University and at Argonne National Laboratory. He moved to UK in fall 2010. His research focuses on superconductivity, quantum transport in heterostructures, proximity systems, topological phenomena, as well as quantum many body theory and correlated electron physics. He is one of the leading international theorists on the interaction of superconductors and ferromagnets and co-founded the field of ‘Superconducting Spintronics’. He is Deputy Director of the Hubbard Theory Consortium and member of the Board of Governors of the NSF International Institute on Complex Adaptive Matter. In 2015 he was awarded the Lars Onsager Professorship and Lars Onsager Medal of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

  • Professor Alexander Brinkman, University of Twente, The Netherlands

    "Alexander Brinkman (1975) is Professor of Quantum Transport in Matter at the MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. The research in his experimental group focuses on the quantum transport properties of hybrid heterostructures and devices. Special interest lies with oxide interfaces, high-Tc superconductors and superconductor-topological  insulator hybrids."