Winter Conference

New Frontiers of Unconventional and High Temperature Superconductivity

February 23–28, 2025

Organizers:

Harold Y. Hwang, Stanford University
Suchitra Sebastian, Cambridge University
*Qimiao Si, Rice University
Ming Yi, Rice University

*organizer responsible for participant diversity

This winter conference will bring together communities interested in a variety of systems for high temperature or unconventional superconductivity. The recent discoveries of high temperature superconductivity in the nickelates have brought renewed intensity to the interest in this problem. A number of emerging phenomena experimentally reported as well as theoretical ideas developed are highly reminiscent of those of other established unconventional superconductors such as the copper oxides, iron pnictides, and the heavy fermions. This is therefore a particularly opportune time to bring together the communities working on these superconducting families to identify and develop the common threads across the recently discovered nickelate superconductors, new advances on the iron-based superconductors, and major new insights for strange metallicity and superconductivity in the copper-based and heavy fermion superconductors.

The conference will

  • Highlight the extensive recent experimental and theoretical developments in each of the material systems, with an emphasis on the nickelates;
  • Identify the phenomena that are common across the materials platforms for unconventional superconductivity, highlight the emerging principles with the potential to unify their understanding, and develop overarching perspectives that may advance progress towards yet more unconventional superconducting phenomena.

Learn more on the conference website here: https://eqma.rice.edu/aspen-center-physics-winter-conference

Winter Conferences

From December through April each year, the Aspen Center for Physics hosts between six and eight one-week winter conferences. These single-session meetings, with typical attendance of about 80, are focused on the latest developments in the core physics areas of the Center. The details of the format vary, but most have a set of invited speakers, additional speakers drawn from the conference participants, and poster sessions that give an opportunity for all participants to present and discuss their work.