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