Program - Exotic New States in Superconducting Devices: the Age of the Interface

Monday, September 25th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Topological Superconductivity and Majorana fermions

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks
09:10 – 10:10 Hao ZHANG
Majorana zero modes in semiconductor nanowires
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:10 Francesco GIAZOTTO
Realization of artificial Josephson topological materials via three-terminal proximity interferometers
11:20 – 11:50 Sophie GUERON
Ballistic edge states in Bismuth nanowires revealed by SQUID interferometry
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
Session Topic: Superconducting hybrids with spin-orbit coupling

13:30 – 14:30 Ilya TOKATLY
Charge-Spin Coupling in Superconducting Structures: Non-dissipative Magnetoelectric Effects
14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30 Silvano DE FRANCESCHI
On the ballistic one-dimensional character of semiconductor nanostructures for Majorana fermions
15:40 – 16:10 Kun-Rok JEON
Towards magnetization-dynamics-driven superconducting spin currents
16:20 – 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:10 Jagadeesh MOODERA
Interface driven phenomena leads the way forward 
17:20 – 17:50 Jasmin JANDKE
Unconventional pairing versus phonon mediated superconductivity in single FeSe layers
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, September 26th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Non-equilibrium superconductivity in nanoscale devices

09:00 – 10:00 Tero HEIKKILÄ
Nonequilibrium effects in superconductors with a spin-splitting field
10:10 – 10:40 Charis QUAY HUEI LI
Quasiparticle spin dynamics in out-of-equilibrium superconductors 
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Session Topic: Topological Superconductivity and Majorana fermions II

11:20 – 11:50 Ewelina HANKIEWICZ 
Unconventional superconductivity in topological insulators and on hexagonal lattices
12:00 – 12:30 Roland WIESENDANGER
Bottom-Up Construction and Atomic-Level Characterization of Spin Chains on Superconducting Substrates for Topological Quantum Computation
12:40 – 16:00 Lunch Break & Poster Session

Afternoon Session
Session Topic: Superconductors with magnetic atoms or impurities

16:10 – 16:40 Dimitri RODITCHEV
Coherent quantum phenomena in ultimate 2D superconductors: A STM study
16:50 – 17:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
17:30 – 18:00 Katharina FRANKE
Yu-Shiba-Rusinov multiplets in magnetic adsorbates on a superconductor
18:10 – 18:40 Mikael FOGELSTRÖM
Spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry in d-wave superconductors
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, September 27th

Morning Session
Session Topic: Unconventional Superconductivity

09:00 – 10:00 Yoshi MAENO
Spin-triplet pair penetrstion into a ferromagnet in Sr2RuO4/SrRuO3-based junctions
10:10 – 10:40 Javier VILLEGAS
Electron interference effects in cuprate superconductor/graphene junctions
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:50 Dirk MANSKE
Novel proximity and Josephson effect with triplet superconductors
12:00 – 12:30 Yossi PALTIEL
Unconventional superconductivity induced in Nb by adsorbed chiral molecules:
A simple way towards superconducting spintronics
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
Session Topic: Spintronics with superconductors I

14:00 – 15:00 Norman BIRGE
Spin-triplet supercurrent and controllable phase states in Josephson junctions containing ferromagnetic materials
15:10 – 15:40 Jan AARTS
Magnetic control over spin-triplet supercurrents
15:50 – 16:20 Matthias ESCHRIG
New Avenues toward Complex Pairing States
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee Break
16:50 – 17:20 Elia STRAMBINI
EuS/Al bilayers for future superconducting spintronics
17:30 – 18:00 Rina TAKASHIMA
Spin torque induced by triplet supercurrent
18:10 – 20:00 Dinner

Thursday, September 28th

Morning Session

Session Topic: Topological Superconductivity and Majorana fermions III

09:00 – 10:00 Felix VON OPPEN
Topological superconductivity in chains of magnetic adatoms on superconductors
10:10 – 10:40 Julia MEYER
Multi-terminal Josephson junctions
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break

Session Topic: Spintronics with superconductors II

11:10 – 11:40 Mark BLAMIRE
Superconducting spin valves and exchange coupling
11:50 – 12:20 Mario AMADO 
Structural and magnetic properties of superconductor / Yttrium Iron Garnet heterostructures with Bi and Nb
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break