Arrival and informal gathering/dinner
12:00 PM - A special KGB Group Meeting (this is our regular time for the
past 100 years!) if you can make it. We will have short presentations on what
our students are currently doing, followed by a lab tour. Pizza will be
served!
Symposium in honor of MRB + Reception + Dinner
Symposium will be held on campus in the Applied Physics building in Lecture-room AP-200.
8: 00 - 8:45 Continental
Breakfast at the Lobby of AP-200
8:45 - 9:00 Opening
Remarks by Ted Geballe
Words from the Dean's Office by Dean
Sharon Long
9:00 - 10:30 Session
I - Superconducting Materials, Bulk and Films
Robert J. Cava (Princeton) - Structure,
superconductivity, and electronic phase diagram of triangular lattice sodium
cobalt oxide
J.M. Triscone (Geneva) - Electrostatic modulation of correlated oxides
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break at the Lobby of AP-200
10:50 - 12:20 Session
II - Devices
J.E. Mooij (Delft) - Crossing Mac's microbridge: superconducting quantum circuits
Konstantin Likharev (SUNY Stony Brook)- CMOL: The Next Big Thing in Electronics?
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch in the Ginzton Lab. Courtyard
1:30 - 3:00 Session III - Superconducting Mesoscopics
and Quantum Effect
Leonid Glazman (U. Minnesota) - Persistent Currents in Superconducting Nanowires
Michael Tinkham (Harvard) - 30 years of Phase-Slips
3:00 - 3:20 Coffee break at the Lobby of
AP-200
3:20 - 4:50 Session IV - Two-Dimensional Superconductors
Boris Spivak (U. Washington) - Quantum superconductor-metal transition
Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford) - Two-Dimensional Superconductors
6:30
Reception and Wine tasting at the Cooper-Garrod
Vineyard.
7:30 Dinner# + "Roast of Mac" (all are
invited to contribute) at the Cooper-Garrod Vineyard.
Robert Dynes, President of the University of California is our after-dinner
speaker.
# Dinner
is planned at the Cooper-Garrod Vineyard in Cupertino hills. We promise good food, good wine, and
good music!
# To
help us support the dinner event we ask participants to contribute
o
$25 for
guests or spouses
o
$15 for
a student
Directions to the Cooper-Garrod Vineyard (from STANFORD) can be
found HERE,
or on the web page of the Vineyard.
Please RSVP your participation to
Cyndi Mata (cmata@stanford.edu) as soon as
you can. Please indicate if you plan to come to the Saturday symposium
and/or the dinner, and if you will bring a spouse to the dinner.
Gathering of KGB group, group alumni and out-of-town Guests for a Beach Party (@ Ted's
Beach House):
12:00 - late... Food,
Drinks, Volleyball, Bonfire and more.