Leverhulme Interchange Research Project on

High Temperature Superconductors in Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields

1st Meeting of Institutional Partners

23-29 January, Loughborough - Cambridge

The Department of Physics is located in the Sir David Davies building at the western edge of the University of Loughborough campus. The thriving market town of Loughborough is situated in the centre of England and forms part of the East Midlands.

Loughborough can easily be reached by road, rail or air. Situated approximately 100 miles north of London the campus lies 2 miles from junction 23 of the M1 motorway. A regular train service from London S^t. Pancras exists with a journey time of approximately 1hr. 30min. The University can be reached in approximately 10 mins. from Loughborough Railway station by either taxi or by a shuttle bus that leaves from station forecourt. The local airport is East Midlands which is 20 mins drive from the University.

Programme:

January 23, 18.30-21.00 arrival and dinner at the Quality Hotel

January 24,

Hotel, 7.30-9.30 breakfast
W2 19, 10.00-11.00 Sasha Alexandrov (Project Coordinator, Loughborough)
11.00-12.00 Vladimir Zavaritsky (Leverhulme Research Fellow)
Hotel, 12.30-14.15 lunch
W2 19, 15.30-17.00 discussion
Hotel, 19.00-21.00 dinner

January 25,

Hotel, 7.30-9.30 breakfast
W2 19, 10.00-11.00 Victor Moshchalkov (Leuven, Belgium)
11.00-12.00 discussion
University, 12.30-14.15 lunch

January 25-29, visiting IRC in Superconductivity and Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge

Accommodation:

Quality Hotel Loughborough

The Quality Hotel & Suites is a comfortable modern hotel centrally located in the Heart of England and forms the ideal base for both business or pleasure in the United Kingdom. The hotel boasts 94 excellent bedrooms including 12 air conditioned suites with all the facilities one has come to expect from a mid market hotel. The suites are ideal for a slightly longer stay and include a lounge, writing desk, fax machine, kitchen area, fridge and microwave oven.

In addition to the bedrooms the hotel has some excellent conference and banqueting facilities with capacity for up to 250 delegates, whether your requirements are for a formal boardroom meeting or a large National / International sales conference then the hotel is able to fulfil and indeed exceed your needs.

There is also an excellent leisure club which is free for guests use and includes heated indoor swimming pool, Sauna, Steam room, Jacuzzi, two Solariums and a fully equipped gymnasium consisting of Lifestyle fitness equipment.

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College (commonly known as 'Caius', pronounced 'Keys') was founded as Gonville Hall in 1348 and refounded in 1558 by John Caius, physician to Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I. The College stands on two sites. The older courts are next to the Senate House and the marketplace, and are the most central in Cambridge; Caius Court is one of the finest renaissance courts in the University. Harvey Court, built in 1962, is just across the river, seven minutes' walk away, very close to the University Library and the new Arts faculty buildings. Although divided in this way, the College acts as a single community, and all Fellows and undergraduates take their meals together in the College Hall. Undergraduates are offered accommodation throughout their course, in College for the first and third years, and in hostels near the university cricket ground for the second year. Most rooms are bedsitters, but there are also many two-room sets.