Landau Institute for theoretical physics

Superfluidity, superconductivity, and topology:
conventional and unconventional

dedicated to Vladimir Mineev's 80th birthday

December 5, 2025, Chernogolovka



Program(all times are MSK = UTC+3, Moscow time)
10.25 opening
chair: Igor Kolokolov
10.30Grigory Volovik (Landau Institute) Long way from theory to experiment
11.00Mike Zhitomirsky (ILL, Grenoble) Large spin anisotropic magnets: from unconventional excitations to exotic states
11.30-12.00. coffee break
chair: Mike Zhitomirsky
12.00Thierry Champel (CNRS, Grenoble) Phase space formulations of the quantum electronic motion in a magnetic field
12.30Kenji Ishida (Kyoto) Spin degree of freedom in spin-triplet superconductor UTe2
13.00-14.00. lunch
chair: Igor Burmistrov
14.00Yuriy Makhlin (HSEPhys & Landau Institute) Supercurrent and bound states in topological Josephson junctions
14.30Yury Belousov (MIPT) В.П. Минеев и кафедра теоретической физики МФТИ
V.P. Mineev and the MIPT chair for theoretical physics
15.00Kirill Samokhin (Brock University) Unconventional Ginzburg-Landau energy: a common origin of novel physics
15.30-16.00. coffee break
chair: Yakov Fominov
16.00David Khmelnitskii (Cambridge) Life and work of Vladimir Mineev
16.30Alexander Finkelstein (Weizmann & TAMU) Spin-wave tunable "qubit" controlled by AC magnonic crystal
17.00James Sauls (Louisiana State) Generation of Topological Defects in Chiral 3He Films under Non-Equilibrium Conditions
17.30 closing of the scientific part


contact: makhlin@itp.ac.ru