Wednesday, July 15

MS35
Inhomogeneous Superconducting Materials: Dynamic and Static Problems

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Sidney Smith 2130

In recent years, the mathematical understanding of superconductivity models has developed considerably. In particular the Ginzburg Landau model has received much attention in mathematical community. One hopes that a deeper mathematical understanding will help to explain experimental results and also suggest new experimental directions and improvement in the design of superconducting materials. The minisymposium will bring together representatives of both theoretical and experimental groups to transfer problems, ideas and methods from one community to another so as to enhance further progress in the understanding of this class of problems.

10:30 Nucleation and Growth of the Superconducting Phase in the Presence of a Current

Alan T. Dorsey, University of Florida, Gainesville

11:00 Bifurcation Analysis for a Ginzburg Landau Model in Cylindrical Domain

Leonid V. Berlyand, Organizer

11:30 Dynamics of Quantum Vortices

Robert L. Jerrard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

12:00 Arbitrary N-Vortex and Periodic Solutions to the First-Order Ginzburg-Landau Equations

Yaniv Almog, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel