CAFE SCIENTIFIQUE - October 2017 - Professor Bob Cywinski

Superconductivity is a magical and remarkable quantum physical phenomenon. Since its discovery just over a hundred years ago it has provided society with the world’s most powerful magnets (such as those at the Large Hadron Colllider), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in hospitals and levitating trains.

Although superconductivity was, for a long time, thought to be a very low temperature property of metals and seen only at temperatures close to absolute zero, over the last few decades many new and more unusual materials that become superconducting at considerably higher temperatures have been discovered. These new superconductors may well lead to technological revolutions in electronics, computing, health, transport and energy that could really change all our lives.

In this talk Bob will present the history and possible future of superconductivity, explain what superconductivity is and why it could be so very useful.

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