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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dickson Presentation by Chandra Varma: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Discovery
of Superconductivity – Historical and Physical Perspective”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The UCR Emeriti (UCREA) and Retirees’ (UCRRA) Associations invites you to attend the upcoming Edward A. Dickson Emeritus/a Lecture Talk Series. Each year three retired
UCR faculty are awarded Edward A. Dickson Professorships to support their research, teaching, or public service activities. In the year following their awards, Dickson Professors give public presentations of their work.<br>
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<b>“Discovery of Superconductivity – Historical and Physical Perspective"</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Presenter</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: Dickson awardee Chandra Varma | <b>Date</b>: Tuesday, April 21,
2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Time</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. | <b>Location</b>: In-person at University Extension
Building 1101 in the University Village and Livestreamed via Zoom<br>
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<b>Description</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I will set the scene for the surprising discovery of Superconductivity in 1911, and the simultaneous (but not realized) phenomena of Superfluidity, by relating what
was known and considered important to discover, and what was unknown in the bubbling but unfermented prior decade. I will talk about the confusion of great minds when the essential physics, without which these phenomena could not be understood, was yet to
be discovered. Yet with the right attitude and great leaps of imagination, some of them made remarkable and enduring contributions, which survive the full understanding which arrived only in the 1950s and 1960s. Such an understanding has affected everything
subsequent in physics from nuclear physics to particle physics to cosmology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Refreshments will be provided</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To join <b>in-person</b> or through <b>livestreaming</b>, please register to receive the event details on the Retirement Center webpage at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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