Anthony J. Leggett Memorial and Conference 2026 - Program
Friday, Oct. 9th 2026
Session 1: Superfluid Helium-3
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. William Helperin (Northwestern)
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Séamus Davis (Oxford/Cork)
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho (Ohio State)
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Gordon Baym (Urbana-Champaign)
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Peter Schiffer (Princeton)
Lunch
Session 2: High-Tc Superconductivity
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Dirk van der Marel (Geneva, Switzerland)
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. John Kirtley (Stanford)
Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Panel: Present and Future of Superconductivity
Andrey Chubukov (Minnesota)
Steven Kivelson (Stanford)
Long Ju (MIT)
Nigel Hussey (Bristol, UK)
Vidya Madhavan (Illinois)
Memorial
4:30 p.m – 6:30 p.m. Alice Campbell Alumni Center
Saturday, Oct. 10th 2026
Session 3: Quantum Coherence, Dissipation and Quantum Realism
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Amir Caldeira (Campinas, Brazil)
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Angela Kou (Urbana-Champaign)
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Michel Devoret (UC Santa Barbara)
Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Anupam Garg (Northwestern)
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Matthew Fisher (UC Santa Barbara)
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Panel: Present and Future of Quantum Computation
Steven Girvin (Yale)
Chetan Nayak (Microsoft / UC Santa Barbara)
Wolfgang Pfaff (Urbana-Champaign)
Lunch
Session 4: BEC-BCS Crossover and Ultra Cold Atoms
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Mohit Randeria (Ohio State)
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Fernando Sols (U Complutense, Madrid)
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Markus Greiner (Harvard)
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Ana María Rey (Boulder)
Banquet (by invitation only, all speakers invited)