The VI Bristol Workshop on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equations
Burwalls, Bristol, United Kingdom April 14-16, 2000
Sponsors: The European Science Foundation (ESF), TMR2 (EU) Network, and the Computational Collaborative Project 9 (CCP9) (UK)
The aim of the workshop was to bring together various communities whose work involved the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (or related) equations. Working in different fields such as superconductivity, superfluidity and nuclear physics, these groups do not cross paths in their daily research and have found this forum to exchange ideas very inspiring.
The workshop took place on the weekend of April 14-16 at Burwalls, a conference centre of Bristol University. Due to the generous support by the European Science Foundation and the Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) network on "Electronic Structure of Complex Systems", which has a superconductivity node at Wurzburg, on this occasion we were able to invite American and outside-EU European speakers, as well as, the customary UK and EU participants. As a consequence, it was more than usually lively meeting. Although the emphasis remained on superconductivity, the talks of Wilkin on rotating superfluids, and that of Bertech on nuclei with high angular moments gave us fresh insights on pairing. The discussions on superconductivity were focused on the effects of large magnetic fields, finite size effects (mesoscopics), exotic pairing, cross-over to Bose-Einstein condensation, disorder and high temperature superconductivity. For further information below we record the full program and a list of participants.
More details may be found in newsletter 39 from page 14