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Introduction
2011 marks the 1st centennial of the discovery of superconductivity. In 1911, Kamerlingh Onnes, in Leiden, Netherlands, working on the resistivity dependence on temperature discovered superconductivity. This is the most important starting point to organize a conference celebrating this 100-year event. The research group led by Prof. Pedro Prieto at Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia worked in the field of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) oxide thin films, HTS/isolator, normal/HTS hetero-structures in the 90´s and during the beginning of the 21st century. He was awarded for his contribution in Josephson measurements in the HTS-oxides by an APS fellow in 2000. His research group also contributed with the study of superconductivity-magnetism coexistence in HTS- YBCO/ferromagnetic manganite (LCMO) supper lattices. Hence, the trends in the field of magnetism are a part of the Workshop theme.
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Our aim is to review the evolution of superconductivity during the past 100 years; offer recommendations for continuing research; provide scenarios to promote exchange of knowledge in the field amongst academic and research groups worldwide; provide opportunities for Latin American young researchers to share their research results with the international scientific community; and conclude with a forecast of future applications in superconductivity and magnetism.
Date
The workshop will take place from: Wednesday June 29, till Friday, July 1, 2011.
Venue
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, is the place where the Trends after 100 Years of superconductivity International Workshop will take place. Cali is the seat of government of Valle of Cauca River State, in the west of the country very near to the Pacific Ocean.
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Scope
Superconductivity has been around for nearly 100 years. It was mostly thought of as a laboratory curiosity and yet a scientific effort was rewarded by no fewer than seven Nobel Prizes in physics and has a very large number of scientists and engineers working in the research field. Despite its discovery almost 100 years ago and its many applications, it is still not understood fully. More of the today applications that would be impossible without superconductors, e.g. the accelerators and detectors at CERN, the nuclear fusion experiment ITER and medical applications such as MRI or MEG.
Scientists at Universidad del Valle in Colombia have decided to celebrate the 100 years of the discovery of superconductivity by organizing an international workshop where history and perspectives on superconductivity will be discussed and where future paths in superconductivity and the interplay of superconductivity and magnetism will be presented. The workshop will offer an overview of the field that is also accessible to physics students and teachers."
Superconductors do more than just conduct electricity. Other important functions are as follows:
• Superconducting QUantum Interference Device, SQUID can detect magnetic field changes that are 100 billion times smaller than Earth's minute magnetic field, useful to study the human brain.
• Magnetic levitation became possible after scientists built superconducting magnets.
• Superconducting magnets have been used extensively in particle accelerators since 1987. High magnetic fields that, in turn, need high currents—something for which superconductors are ideal.
• Superconducting wires improve an electric generator's efficiency by more than 99 percent. In addition, such generators are about half the size of conventional ones.
• In high-performance and high-capacity electronic filters; a petaflop-computer; mine and submarine detection; and storing energy to enhance power stability; satellites; telescopes and other light detection instruments; and Internet routers
Impact expected:
We expect to provide greater international visibility to the work done in nanoscale superconductivity and magnetism in Latin America. For this purpose, we are inviting 15 top-ranked researchers in the field (5 from Latin America), along with over 30 young researchers from different countries in Latin America and over 30 participants from Colombia, mostly young researchers.