BCS@50 Conference Video and PDF files

From this site you can access MP4 video files of all of the presentations given at the 50th Anniversary of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Theory of Superconductivity conference held in Urbana, IL on October 10–13, 2007. The files are organized and searchable by date and day-part.

Accompanying PDF files

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
  1. Welcome Ceremony
  2. Opening Comments (Ambegaokar)
  3. NMR and the BCS Theory of Superconductivity (Slichter)
  4. BCS and the Superconducting Energy Gap (Tinkham)
  5. BCS from 1952–58: A Personal History (Pines)
  6. Origins of the Theory of Superconductivity (Cooper)
  7. Theory of Superconductivity (Schrieffer)
  8. Discovery of Tunneling Between Superconductors (Giaever)
  9. BCS in Russia: The End of ‘50s–Early ‘60s (Gorkov)
  10. Energy Gap, Mass Gap, and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (Nambu)
  11. Notes from the Early Days of BCS: Gauge Invariance and the “Higgs” Phenomenon (Anderson)
Thursday, October 11, 2007
  1. High Temperature Superconductivity (Norman)
  2. Infrared Spectroscopy of High-Tc Superconductors (Basov)
  3. High Temperature Superconductors: BCS or Not BCS?
  4. The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible (Davis)
  5. NMR of Correlated Electron Superconductors (Haase)
  6. Measuring up the Competition: Neutron Scattering Studies of Antiferromagnetism in Cuprate Superconductors (Tranquada)
  7. Theory Panel Discussion (Phillips)
Friday, October 12, 2007
  1. Josephson Interferometry: Mapping the Pairing Symmetry of Unconventional Superconductors (Van Harlingen)
  2. Superconductivity in Heavy-Fermion Materials (Thompson)
  3. Superconductivity and Electron Correlations in Ruthenates (Mackenzie)
  4. Organics Superconductors (Chaikin)
  5. Predicting New BCS Superconductors (Cohen)
  6. Noncentrosymmetric Superconductivity (Salamon)
  7. The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Cosmology to Medicine (Clarke)
  8. Two-Dimensional Superconductivity (Goldman)
  9. From BCS through HTS to RTS (Chu)
  10. SuperNet (McClain)
Saturday, October 13, 2007
  1. Neutron Stars (Baym)
  2. Nuclear Superfluids (Mottelson)
  3. Color Superconductivity (Alford)
  4. Superfluidity and Neutron Star Dynamics (Alpar)
  5. Superfluid 3He: The First Unconventional BCS States (Osheroff)
  6. Application of BCS-like Ideas to Superfluid Helium-3 (Leggett)
  7. BCS-BEC Crossover in Cold Atoms (Jin)
  8. BCS Quantum Hall States (Eisenstein)
  9. Conference Summary and Looking Ahead (Beasley)