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First joint UOW/CSIRO workshop on superconductors
The first joint University of Wollongong/CSIRO workshop on superconducting materials and devices will be held tomorrow at the Innovation Campus in Wollongong (Wednesday August 26).
The Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) at UOW and the CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering are world leading groups in the field of superconducting materials and devices.
The race to perfect superconductivity materials is one of science’s great missions. Superconductors are materials that have no resistance to the flow of electricity below certain temperatures.
Finding materials that do not produce losses in energy has massive implications for industry and technology in general. Electrical current could flow forever within a closed loop of superconducting material.
In recent years, ISEM and CSIRO have been expanding their research fields to other hot topics such as nano-magnetism, nano-electronics and novel multifunctional electronic materials and their applications.
ISEM has been relocated to the new Innovation Campus at Fairy Meadow and both institutions have been equipped with more state-of-the-art infrastructures to focus on both breakthrough science and applications.
Participants at the first joint workshop will discuss the latest developments with new superconductors and their potential applications.
Media please note: There is a photo opportunity at 9.30am, Wednesday August 26 when UOW’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Judy Raper, and the Dean of Engineering, Professor Chris Cook, will meet UOW and CSIRO representatives. .
Where: Ground floor seminar rooms, AIIM Building, Innovation Campus, Fairy Meadow.
Further information: Contact Associate Professor Xiaolin Wang on (02) 4221 5766.