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SUMMARY:**Cancelled** Superconductor Technology for Science\, Energy\, and
  Medical Applications - Joseph V. Minervini\, Massachusetts Institute of T
 echnology
DTSTART:20191016T150000Z
DTEND:20191016T160000Z
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CONTACT:John Durrell
DESCRIPTION:**Cancelled - the speaker's flight has been cancelled and they
  are unable to make it **\n\nSuperconductivity was discovered in 1911 by H
 eike Kamerlingh Onnes at the University of Leiden. It took several decades
  from that day to develop practical superconductors that could be applied 
 effectively to scientific\, energy\, and medical devices. This long gestat
 ion period occurred because of the need to operate the so-called\, Low Tem
 perature Superconductors (LTS)\, under cryogenic conditions in liquid heli
 um at temperatures near absolute zero. The field of high energy physics le
 ad the way through development of NbTi superconductors for high field part
 icle accelerator applications. These developments allowed a new field of m
 edical diagnostics to evolve for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Higher field 
 magnets for scientific and materials research followed with the developmen
 t of Nb3Sn. This development was further enhanced by application to large 
 scale fusion magnets. Early attempts at applying LTS to electric power app
 lications had technical success but were not accepted in power grid use\, 
 primarily because of the need to operate in a liquid helium environment. N
 ow the new High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) are proving technically 
 attractive for power industry applications as well as offering significant
  advantages for many large scale applications. In this talk I will give an
  overview of these applications and provide examples of both LTS and HTS s
 ystems that are in use or under development.
LOCATION:James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering
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