<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">G<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 25, 2026, at 9:40 AM, Cristina Otegui via UCRRA <ucrra@lists.ucr.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.25in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><div><image.png></div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span><p></p>
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25, 2026</span></p>
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Emeriti and Retirees</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Re:<b> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span> </b>“Discovery of Superconductivity –
Historical and Physical Perspective” Dickson Presentation by Chandra Varma </span></p>
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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><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">“Discovery of Superconductivity – Historical and
Physical Perspective"</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0in;line-height:110%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presenter</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">:
Dickson awardee Chandra Varma | <b>Date</b>:
Tuesday, April 21, 2026</span></p>
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Building 1101 in the University Village and Livestreamed via Zoom<br>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">Description</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I
will set the scene for the surprising discovery of Superconductivity in 1911,
and the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,78,121)">Refreshments
will be provided</span></i></b></span></p>
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seating is given to members of the UCR Emeriti and Retirees’ Associations who
must register by April 3, 2026. Registration will be open to the public by April
4, 2026. To join <b>in-person</b> or
through <b>livestreaming</b> the event,
please register to receive the event details on the Retirement Center webpage
at:</span></p>
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