Mike Norman

Current Position

Interim Division Director, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Education

• Ph.D. Physics, Tulane University, 1983
• B.S. Physics, Louisiana State University--Shreveport, 1979 (Summa Cum Laude)

Honors

• University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award (1999)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)

Professional Experiences

• 2008-present: Argonne Distinguished Fellow
• 2007-present: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
• 2000-present: Head, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1998-present: Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Fall 2003: Invited Professorship, ESPCI, Paris, France
• Fall 2001: Visiting Scientist, SPhT, Saclay, France
• Fall 2000, Winter 2005: Visitor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
• 1989-2000: Principal Investigator, NSF S&T Center for Superconductivity
• 1990-1998: Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Summer 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004: Visitor, Aspen Center for Physics
• Fall 1992: Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Cambridge University, UK
• 1986-1990: Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1983-1986: Director's Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1983-1985: Research Associate, Department of Physics, Northwestern University

Conference Chaiman

5. Symposium in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Alexei Abrikosov, Nov. 6,1998, Argonne National Laboratory

4. Workshop on Poorly Conducting Metallic Oxides, June 10-12, 1998, Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair)

3. The Pseudogap in High Temperature Superconductors: May 19-20, 1997, University of Illinois - Chicago (co-chair)

2. High Temperature Superconductors: Pairing State and Mechanism, June 13-17, 1994, Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair)

1. Superconductors in a Magnetic Field, August 24-28, 1992, Argonne National Laboratory

Conference Summarizer

1. Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, March 17-19, 1993, Santa Fe, NM

Organizing Committee

6. Possibility of Room Temperature Superconductivity, June 10-11, 2005, Univ. of Notre Dame

5. Quantum Phase Transitions, Jan. 10 – Apr. 29, 2005, ITP, Santa Barbara, CA

4. Pseudogaps in Strongly Correlated Metals, Aug. 9 – Sep. 12, 2004, Aspen, CO

3. Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, May 14-18, 2001, Chicago, IL

2. Fundamental Processes of Electron Transport in High Tc Junctions, Aug. 23-24, 1996, Argonne National Laboratory

1. Electronic Properties of Disordered Systems, Aug. 23-27, 1993, Argonne National Laboratory

Advisory Committee

2. US Dept. of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences subcommittee on Theory and Computation, 2004

1. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Superconductivity Program, 1998-2003 (Chair)

Editorial Board

1. Physical Review B, 2000-2005

Postdocs Supervised

1. Carlos Sa de Melo (1991-1993)
2. Roland Fehrenbacher (1993-1995)
3. Yuri Vilk (1995-1997)
4. Denis Golosov (1996-1998)
5. Gianfranco Preosti (1997-1998)
6. Boldizsar Janko (1998-1999)
7. Matthias Eschrig (1999-2001)
8. Yaroslaw Bazalliy (2000-2003)
9. Revaz Ramazashvili (2001-2004)
10. Alexios Klironomos (2003-2006)
11. Indranil Paul (2005-2007)
12. Tobias Micklitz (2007-)

Other

• Invited Conference Talks
• Publications
• Recent Preprints and Publications
• Colloquium talk given at CORPES05, Dresden, German, April 4, 2005:
  Pseudogaps, strange metals, and coherent superconductors: The view from
  ARPES
• Conference organized at KITP, Santa Barbara, January 10 - April 29, 2005:
  Quantum Phase Transitions
• Lecture at the Quantum Matter Workshop, Trieste, Italy, August 21, 2006:
  The Nodal Metal - A New State of Matter?
• Invited talk given at the A. I. Larkin Memorial Conference in Chernogolovka, Russia, June 27, 2007: The Nodal Metal in Cuprates - A New State of Matter?
  
• Invited talk given at the Optical Sum Rules Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2, 2007: Optical Integral Differences: Kinetic Energy Savings or a Cut-off Effect?
  
• Invited talk given at the BCS@50 Conference, Urbana, IL, October 11, 2007: High Temperature Superconductivity - After 20 years, where are we at?