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SUMMARY:High-Temperature Superconductors:  From Broken Symmetries to the P
 ower Grid - Professor Laura Greene\, Department of Physics\, University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DTSTART:20100310T160000Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:Superconductivity\, first discovered in 1911\, is the loss of 
 all electrical resistance by certain materials when cooled to very low tem
 perature. In 1986\, and more recently in 2008\, two new classes of superco
 nductors we call "high-temperature superconductors" were discovered which 
 superconduct at much more easily obtainable temperatures. Each of these di
 scoveries motivated an unprecedented world-wide flurry of research: Not on
 ly to the high-temperature superconductors represent fascinating new class
 es of solid state of matter which break certain fundamental symmetries of 
 Nature\, but applications\, such as impacting the power grid by significan
 tly reducing power loss\, are extremely promising.
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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