Aims and Scope | Sponsors | Invited speakers | Organising committee
Programme | Registration | Venue and travel

Aims and Scope

The theory of conventional superconductors (BCS theory) was one of the great successes of theoretical physics in the past century. Not all superconductors, however, obey it. Such “unconventional superconductors” include heavy-fermion, high-temperature (copper-based and iron-based), triplet, and non-centrosymmetric superconductors. Over the last few decades, a qualitative understanding of the phenomenology of such systems built up. In recent years, however, this emerging understanding has been shaken by the discovery of a number of new superconducting systems that do not seem to fit in. Many of these new superconductors feature a combination of spin-orbit coupling, multi-band pairing and/or lack of inversion symmetry, leading to the possibility of much more complex order parameters than have hitherto been considered. The field has thus become wide open and is full of opportunity to discover new phenomena that are unusual and potentially useful.

The International Workshop on Unconventional Superconductors: New Paradigms for New Materials will bring together theorists and experimentalists working in this exciting area. The aim is to develop a new understanding of superconductivity through which the more complex types of unconventional superconductivity that we are now encountering can be understood. The workshop will focus strongly on materials whose unconventional nature has been uncovered recently or which clearly do not fit in with existing generalisations of BCS theory.

Sponsors

This conference is sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the project Unconventional Superconductors: New Paradigms for New Materials (USC) and by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Invited speakers (confirmed)

• Ernst Bauer (TU Wien)
• Elizabeth Blackburn (University of Birmingham)
• Stephen Blundell (University of Oxford)
• Antony Carrington (University of Bristol)
• Amalia Coldea (University of Oxford)
• Matthias Eschrig (RHUL)
• Martin Gradhand (University of Bristol)
• Andrew Huxley (University of Edinburgh)
• Daniel Mayoh (University of Warwick)
• Kazumasa Miyake (Osaka University)
• Jörg Schmalian (KIT)
• Ilya Vehkter (LSU)
• Huiqiu Yuan (Zhejiang University)

Organising committee

• James F. Annett (University of Bristol)
• Sudeep Ghosh (University of Kent) – Secretary
• Adrian Hillier (ISIS Facility)
• Don Paul (University of Warwick)
• Jorge Quintanilla (University of Kent) – Chair

Programme

Day 1 (Monday 24 September, 2018)

Day 2 (Tuesday 25 September, 2018)

Registration

There is a £60 registration fee to partially cover meals and refreshments. Follow this link* to the registration page.

A small number of places will be available to graduate students with zero fee. Follow this link* if you wish to register this way (these will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to PhD students only; if there are no longer any places available, you will still be able to come back to this page and register as a fee-paying delegate).

*Note: the registration facility is not yet available.

Venue and travel

The meeting will take place at the Cosener’s House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Directions to the conference venue can be found here.

A limited number of rooms have been pre-booked at a reduced rate at the Cosener’s House. You can reserve one of these using this form.*

*Note: the room reservation facility is not yet available.