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M1Or2A – Focus Session: Flux Pinning I
        Monday, July 19, 2021 — 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Session Chairs: Boris Maiorov, Los Alamos National Laboratory & Chiara Tarantini, ASC/NHMFL/FSU
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. M1Or2A-01 [Invited]: Ultrafast transient liquid assisted growth (TLAG): a new YBa2Cu3O7 growth method with novel vortex pinning scenarios
   Teresa Puig
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. M1Or2A-02 [Invited]: Growth, microstructure and pinning properties of CSD REBCO films and nanocomposites    Jens Hänisch
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. M1Or2A-03 [Invited]: Advanced (RE)-Ba-Cu-O bulk superconductors with improved superconducting and mechanical properties    David Cardwell
1:00 pm. – 1:30 p.m. M1Or2A-04 [Invited]: Effect of ion irradiation on cuprate and iron-based superconductors    Qiang Li
M1Or4B – Focus Session:  Flux Pinning II
        Monday, July 19, 2021 — 7:30 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.
Session Chairs: Judy Wu, University of Kansas & Mary Ann Sebastian, University of Dayton Research Institute
7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. M1Or4B-01 [Invited]: Glassy and plastic vortex creep regimes in superconducting (Y,Gd)Ba2Cu3Oy films and coated conductors    Leonardo Civale
8:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. M1Or4B-02: Investigation of the Combined Effects of Ca-Doped YBa2Cu3O7-? and BaZrO3 Nano-Rod Additions in Multilayer YBa2Cu3O7-? Thin Films Produced with Varying Pulsed Laser Deposition Conditions    Mary Ann Sebastian
8:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. M1Or4B-04 [Invited]: Control of nanocomposite structure for improving vortex pinning in YBCO films: hybrid pinning and interface structure    Tomoya Horide
8:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. M1Or4B-05 [Invited]: Improvement of In-field Critical Current of Coated Conductor for Applications    Teruo Izumi
     
     
M2Or1B – Focus Session: Flux Pinning III
 
       Tuesday, July 20, 2021 — 9:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.  
Session Chairs: Teresa Puig, ICMAB-CSIC & Toshinori Ozaki, Kwansei Gakuin University  
     
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. M2Or1B-01 [Invited]: Numerical Evaluation of Elementary Pinning Force due to Spherical Pinning Center -Focusing on Anomalous Angular dependence of Critical Current-    Tatsunori Okada
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. M2Or1B-02 [Invited]: Flux pinning engineering by low-energy heavy ion irradiation for GdBa2Cu3Oy coated conductors    Toshinori Ozaki
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. M2Or1B-03 [Invited]: New discoveries and opportunities for superconductors in high magnetic fields    Boris Maiorov
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. M2Or1B-04 [Invited]: Enabling coherent BaZrO3 nanorods/YBa2Cu3O7-x interface for enhanced pinning through dynamic lattice enlargement in BaZrO3/YBa2Cu3O7-x nanocomposites    Judy Wu