Jim Fest
Jim Fest | Northwestern University
October 14-15, 2022
This two-day event will celebrate Jim Sauls’ scientific achievements as well as his impact as a PhD and postdoc adviser during his 35 years at Northwestern.
Speakers will be invited to reflect on their scientific and personal connections with Jim.
The event will include a colloquium talk by Jim Sauls on Friday, 10/14 at 4pm.
Location: Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston IL 60201
Primary room: F160
Colloquium room: L211
Hotel: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn in Evanston (cut off date September 26) and the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago in Skokie.
In order to reserve a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago in Skokie, click this link to take you to the reservation page. Please use code "NUP" at checkout.
Additional hotels in the area include:
Note: we do not have reserved blocks at the above hotels, but they may be more affordable.
Reception: Halperin home 920 Maple Ave, Saturday 8:00pm, 10/15
Jim Fest Schedule
Tech F160
FRIDAY
- 9:30-10:30 Light Breakfast
- 10:30 Opening Remarks
- 11:00 Dale van Harlingen- The Quest for Complex Superconductors
- 11:20 David Seidman- First-Order Phase Transformation in 4-D Space for a Ni-Al-Cr-Re Alloy
- 11:40 Mike Bedzyk - Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Single Crystal Nb films for Superconducting Qubits
- 12:00-1:30 Lunch (F160)
Session 2 (Chair: David Ferguson)
- 1:30 Matthias Graf - Quasiclassical years in superconductivity: from the unconventional to universal and back
- 1:50 Pallab Goswami - Spin-charge separation and quantized topological response of real materials
- 2:10 Erhai Zhao - Pairing and frustration in the ultracold
- 2:30 Ivar Martin - O Majorana, where art thou?
- 2:50 Smitha Vishveshwara - Superfluid Sojourns towards the Stars
- 3:10-4:00 Coffee Break
- 4:00 Jim Sauls (Colloquium, L211) The Left Hand of the Electron in a Chiral Vacuum
- 5:15 Post Colloquium Happy Hour (F160)
- 6:30 Banquet (Alcove Restaurant, 1625 Maple Ave)
SATURDAY
- 9:30-10:30 Light Breakfast
- 10:30 Anna Grassellino - SRF cavities from accelerators to quantum, our journey with Jim
- 10:50 David Ferguson - Circuit Quantization of Unconventional Superconductors
- 11:10 Johannes Pollanen - Phononic bath engineering of a superconducting qubit
- 11:30 Mark Meisel - Complex Interfaces and Transitions
- 11:50 Bellave Shivaram - A new model for Heavy Fermion Physics through nonlinear Susceptibility and Ultrasound measurements
- 12:10 Priya Sharma - Less is also Different
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch (F160)
- 2:00 Yoonseok Lee - Jim: my teacher, colleague, and friend
- 2:20 John Saunders - Engineering and emergence in topological superfluid 3He
- 2:40 Morten Eskildsen - Taming the vortices in UPt3
- 3:00 Randy Fishman - A Visit to Finland with Jim and the Orbital Angular Momentum of Magnons
- 3:20-4:10 Coffee Break
- 4:10 John Davis - 21 years of chasing Jim Sauls
- 4:30 Anton Vorontsov - Strongly correlated 3He, (and related work Jim got me started on)
- 4:50 Closing Remarks
- 8:00-11:00 Wine and Cheese Reception (Halperin’s house, 920 Maple Ave)
Confirmed Guests:
- Bedzyk, Mike
- Davis, John
- Eskildsen, Morten
- Ferguson, David
- Fishman, Randy
- Goswami, Pallab
- Graf, Matthias
- Grasselino, Anna
- Lee, Yoonseok
- Lin, Wei-Ting
- Martin, Ivar
- Meisel, Mark
- Moores, Geneva
- Pollanen, Johannes
- Romanenko, Alex
- Saunders, John
- Seidman, David
- Sharma, Priya
- Shivaram, Bellave
- Ueki, Hikaru
- van Harlingen, Dale
- Vishveshwara, Smitha
- Vorontsov, Anton
- Zarea, Mehdi
- Zhao, Erhhai