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   BIG BANG AND BEYOND

Note: The public lectures in this column are free and do not require registration

Special associated courses:
Physics 564: "Topics in Contemporary Cosmology"
Profs. Spergel and Steinhardt
MW 11-12, F3; Location TBA- Fall & Spring

Thursday Public Lecture Series:
Sep 25: Jadwin A-10, 4:30 PM, Prof. Eichiro Komatsu (U Texas)“Testing Inflationary Cosmology”"

Oct 2: Jadwin A-10, 4:30 PM, Prof. Shamit Kachru (Stanford), “Branes, Strings and Inflation”"

Oct 16: Jadwin A-10, 4:30 PM, "TBA"

Nov 6: Evnin Public Lecture, (Co-sponsored by Council on Science and Technology), Location TBA, 7:30 PM, Prof. Neil Turok (Cambridge, Perimeter), “What Happened Before the Big Bang?”

Nov 20: Vanuxem Public Lecture, McCosh 50, 8 PM, Prof. Leonard Susskind (Stanford):

"The Black Hole War"

Dec 4: Jadwin A-10, 4:30 PM, Prof. James Hartle (UCSB), “Quantum Cosmology and the Initial Singularity”

Feb 12: Sackler Lecture in Astrophysics, McDonnell A-02, 7:30 PM, Prof. Alan Guth (MIT), “The Inflationary Universe”
   

Iron-based High Temperature Superconductors: Nov 13-14, 2008

Organizers: Ravin Bhatt, B. Andrei Bernevig, Zahid Hasan, Ali Yazdani

Co-sponsored by the Princeton Center for Complex Materials

Note: This program requires REGISTRATION.

This program will focus the recent discovery of high temperature superconductivity in iron-based layered compounds, which seems to suggest a new route to increase Tc. The new materials that do not seem to fit the same paradigm as earlier high Tc superconductors. One of the exciting aspects is that they belong to a comprehensive class of materials where many chemical substitutions are possible. This versatility is already opening up new research avenues to understand the origin of the superconductivity, and should also enable the superconducting properties to be tailored for commercial technologies. The program, in the form of a workshop, will discuss new avenues in superconductivity physics, centered on the iron-based superconductors, but also possibly including other families that may have similarities and possible connections.