Mon Nov 30 · 6:30pm
Lectures on Tap — Superconductivity: The "Holy Grail" of Materials Science
Matt Gochan, an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and a condensed matter physicist trained at Boston College, starts with electrical resistance, the reason a phone heats up as it charges, and moves to superconductors, through which current flows with no loss at all. He covers cooling materials to near absolute zero, Cooper pairs, and the search for a room-temperature superconductor.