Summer Program

Novel and Exotic Superconductivity

May 30–June 13, 2027

Organizers:

Daniel Agterberg, University of Wisconsin
Haim Beidenkopf , Weizmann Institute
Erez Berg, UC Santa Barbara
Elena Hassinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The past decade has witnessed the rise of entirely new families of exotic superconductors, such as twisted bilayer graphene,

rhombohedral graphene, twisted WSe₂, the memory superconductor 4Hb TaS₂, and new triplet superconductors such as BaTa₂S₅, CeRh₂As₂ and UTe₂. This workshop will bring together physicists, seeking to forge new a new theoretical understanding, driven by the synergies across these material platforms.

Summer Workshops

The summer program, running for 16 weeks from late-May to mid-September, emphasizes exciting open problems at the cutting edge. Two or three concurrent workshops, each with a specific focus selected for timeliness and the potential for breakthroughs and of two to five weeks in length, establish the main themes of each week, with twelve or thirteen different workshops each summer, balanced across fields including particle physics, string theory, astrophysics and hard and soft condensed matter physics, as well as emerging areas including biological physics, ultra-cold atom physics, quantum information, and physical mathematics. Additional researchers participate in small working groups or as individual researchers. This framework is designed to maximize informal interactions and free discussion within each area and to promote cross-fertilization between different areas via the common language of theoretical physics. Participation in the summer program of the Aspen Center for Physics is by application and subsequent invitation only. View past workshops.