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     COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
       AND THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA SCIENCES
                         (CSI 898-Sec 001)
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                        Exotic Superconductors

                          Ahmet Keles
 Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 

Superconductivity has been one of the main problems in condensed
matter physics a hundred years after its discovery. Many results of
this intensive research made it to textbooks hinting at its
fundamental importance besides promising applications. In the last few
decades, new superconducting materials were found that were beyond the
realm of conventional phonon based superconductors described by
Bardeen-Cooper-Schriffer (BCS) theory. This new class of
superconductors found a wide ground in particle physics due the
presence of exotic symmetries that can be described by models akin to
the Lorentz invariant field theories. 

In this talk, I will be focusing on a recent member of this family 
of exotic superconductors Weyl superconductors and related Majorana 
fermions and discuss possible experimental realizations of these materials.

                           September 28, 2015
                               4:30 pm
                         Exploratory Hall, room 3301 
                             Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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