BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230724T062143Z UID:D6BBC220-1BFB-461B-B2FC-D817C10D3377 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230721T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20230721T120000 DESCRIPTION:The high-Tc superconductivity (HTS) revolution\, started 36 yea rs ago\, has continued apace ever since in ongoing fundamental discoveries . Near room-temperature superconductivity\, albeit at exceptionally high p ressures\, has been claimed in a number of independent studies and\, despi te the controversy surrounding these claims\, is probably genuine in some instances. But the much-heralded wide-ranging applications of HTS cuprates have lagged well behind the science. Nonetheless\, with high-quality cond uctors now available\, and decreasing unit cost\, these applications are i ndeed now being deployed. I will summarise our own activities in HTS aeros pace applications and MRI\, before tackling a few key fundamental question s in cuprate science from the perspective of thermodynamic measurements: ( i) are the overdoped cuprates conventional or exotic? and (ii) what is the fundamental pairing mechanism?\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Jeff Tallon\n\nRoom: Auditoire Stueckelberg\, Bldg: Ecole de Physique\, Université de Genève\ , Quai Ernest-Ansermet\, 24\, Geneve\, Switzerland\, Switzerland\, 1211 LOCATION:Room: Auditoire Stueckelberg\, Bldg: Ecole de Physique\, Universit é de Genève\, Quai Ernest-Ansermet\, 24\, Geneve\, Switzerland\, Switzer land\, 1211 ORGANIZER:carmine.senatore@unige.ch SEQUENCE:16 SUMMARY:Applications and fundamental questions for High-Tc superconductors – ubi sumus? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/367274 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span lang="EN-US">The high-Tc superconduc tivity (HTS) revolution\, started 36 years ago\, has continued apace ever since in ongoing fundamental discoveries. Near room-temperature supercondu ctivity\, albeit at exceptionally high pressures\, has been claimed in a n umber of independent studies and\, despite the controversy surrounding the se claims\, is probably genuine in some instances. But the much-heralded w ide-ranging applications of HTS cuprates have lagged well behind the scien ce. Nonetheless\, with high-quality conductors now available\, and decreas ing unit cost\, these applications are indeed now being deployed. I will s ummarise our own activities in HTS aerospace applications and MRI\, before tackling a few key fundamental questions in cuprate science from the pers pective of thermodynamic measurements: (i) are the overdoped cuprates conv entional or exotic? and (ii) what is the fundamental pairing mechanism?</s pan></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR