Mike Norman is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, and the former Director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He was also a principal investigator in the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995, received the University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award in 1999, was on the Editorial Board of Physical Review B from 2000-2005, and is currently on the Editorial Board for Physical Review X.

Education

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

Honors

• LSU-S Circle of Excellence Award (2008)
• University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award (1999)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995)

Professional Experiences

• 2008 - present: Argonne Distinguished Fellow
• 2000 - 2011, 2019 - present: Head, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2018: Interim Director, Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2011 - 2018: Director, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2009 - 2018: Principal Investigator, Center for Emergent Superconductivity
• 2015 - 2018: Fellow, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
• 2007 - 2010: Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
• 1998 - 2008: Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2003: Invited Professorship, ESPCI, Paris, France
• 2001: Visiting Scientist, SPhT, Saclay, France
• 2000, 2005: Visitor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
• 1989 - 2000: Principal Investigator, NSF S&T Center for Superconductivity
• 1990 - 1998: Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007: Visitor, Aspen Center for Physics
• 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 Organizer

• Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Compounds, June 21-25, 2022, Telluride, Colorado (co-organizer)
• Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Compounds, June 25-29, 2019, Telluride, Colorado (co-organizer)
• Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Compounds, June 26-30, 2017, Telluride, Colorado (co-organizer)
• Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Compounds, June 8-12, 2015, Telluride, Colorado (co-organizer)
• Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Compounds, July 18-22, 2011, Telluride, Colorado (co-organizer)
• Superconductor-Insulator Transition, Nov. 16-19, 2010, ANL (co-chair)
• Vortices at Fifty Years, Nov. 7-8, 2008, ANL
• Symposium in Honor of the 70^th Birthday of Alexei Abrikosov, Nov. 6, 1998, ANL
• Workshop on Poorly Conducting Metallic Oxides, June 10-12, 1998, ANL (co-chair)
• The Pseudogap in High Temperature Superconductors:  May 19-20, 1997, University of Illinois - Chicago (co-chair)
• High Temperature Superconductors:  Pairing State and Mechanism, June 13-17, 1994, ANL (co-chair)
• Superconductors in a Magnetic Field, August 24-28, 1992, ANL

Other Conference Activity

• Materials and Mechanisms in Superconductivity 2022, July 17-22, 2022, Vancouver, Canada (program committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2022, July 24-28, 2022, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (international advisory committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2020/21, Sept. 27 - Oct. 2, 2021, Brazil (international advisory committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2019, Sept. 23-28, 2019, Okayama, Japan (international advisory committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2017, July 17-21, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic (international advisory committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2016, May 9-13, 2016, Hangzhou, China (international advisory committee)
• Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids 2016, May 30 – June 3, 2016, Biwa Lake, Japan (program committee)
• 27^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Aug. 6-14, 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina (program committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2014, July 7-11, 2014, Grenoble, France (international advisory committee)
• Low Energy Electrodynamics in Solids 2014, June 29 – July 4, 2014, Domaine Saint Hilaire, France (program committee)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2013, Aug. 5-9, 2013, Tokyo, Japan (international advisory committee)
• Materials and Mechanisms in Superconductivity 2012 (program committee co-chair)
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2011, Aug. 29 – Sept. 3, 2011, Cambridge, England (program committee)
• 26^th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Aug. 10-17, 2011, Beijing, China (advisory board)
• International Conference on Neutron Scattering, May 3-7, 2009, Knoxville, TN (program committee)
• Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Jan. 22-27, 2006, Buellton, CA (discussion leader)
• Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, March 17-19, 1993, Santa Fe, NM (conference summarizer)

Organizing Committee

• Anniversary Meeting for Valerii Vinokur, Jan. 27-28, 2021, Argonne National Laboratory
• Workshop on Quantum Sensing, Dec. 12-14, 2017, Argonne National Laboratory
• Discovery in Basic Energy Sciences: The Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, Aug. 13-15, 2009, Washington, DC
• Critical Issues Related to Higher Temperature Superconductors, June 22-26, 2009, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
• Possibility of Room Temperature Superconductivity, June 10-11, 2005, Univ. of Notre Dame
• Quantum Phase Transitions, Jan. 10 – Apr. 29, 2005, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
• Pseudogaps in Strongly Correlated Metals, Aug. 9 – Sep. 12, 2004, Aspen, CO
• Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors, May 14-18, 2001, Chicago, IL
• Fundamental Processes of Electron Transport in High T_c Junctions, Aug. 23-24, 1996, Argonne National Laboratory
• Electronic Properties of Disordered Systems, Aug. 23-27, 1993, Argonne National Laboratory

Advisory Committee

• Center for Computational Materials Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2015-present
• U S Dept. of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences subcommittee on Facing our Energy Challenges, 2008-2009
• Science Advisory Board, UC/ANL Joint Theory Institute, 2006-2009
• U S Dept. of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences subcommittee on Theory and Computation, 2004
• Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Superconductivity Program, 1998-2003 (Chair)

Editorial Board

• Physical Review X, 2015-present
• Physical Review B, 2000-2005

Postdocs Supervised

• Carlos Sa de Melo (1991-1993)
• Roland Fehrenbacher (1993-1995)
• Yuri Vilk (1995-1997)
• Denis Golosov (1996-1998)
• Gianfranco Preosti (1997-1998)
• Boldizsar Janko (1998-1999)
• Matthias Eschrig (1999-2001)
• Yaroslaw Bazalliy (2000-2003)
• Revaz Ramazashvili (2001-2004)
• Alexios Klironomos (2003-2006)
• Indranil Paul (2005-2007)
• Ashot Melikyan (2006-2008)
• Tobias Micklitz (2007-2009)
• Zoran Ristivojevic (2009-2010)
• Alex Levchenko (2009-2011)
• Jie Lin (2009-2011)
• Victor Vakaryuk (2010-2012)
• Jasper van Wezel (2010-2012)
• Vivek Mishra (2012-2015)
• Antia Botana (2015-2018)
• Pablo Arribi (2019-2020)
• Gaurav Chaudhary (2020-)

Articles on the Web

• Personal Reminisces of the Nobel Ceremony, December 5-14, 2003:
  Diary of a Nobel Guest - II

• Trend Article in Physics, September 15, 2008:
  High Temperature Superconductivity in the Iron Pnictides

• Physics Image, APS March Meeting, 2009:
  Electron Emission from Stripes

• Trend Article in Physics, October 18, 2010:
  Fermi Surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High Temperature Superconductivity

• Newspaper Article in Project Syndicate, July 8, 2011:
  A Hundred Years of Superconductivity

• National Academy of Sciences, 2018:
  Biographical Memoir of Alexei Abrikosov

• Review article in Science magazine, January 2020 (publication 265):
  Quantum Spin Liquids

• Trend article in Physics, May 28, 2020:
  Entering the Nickel Age of Superconductivity

Talks on the Web

• Colloquium talk given at CORPES05, Dresden, Germany, April 4, 2005:
  Pseudogaps, strange metals, and coherent superconductors: The view from ARPES

• Conference organized at the KITP, Santa Barbara, January 10 - April 29, 2005:
  Quantum Phase Transitions

• 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?

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Strong Correlations in Materials, Trieste, Italy, August 4, 2008:
  Fermi Arcs and Fermi Pockets in Cuprates

• Invited talk given at the Cuprate 2008 Workshop, College Park, Maryland, November 14-15, 2008:
  Arcs and Pockets - The Same or Different?

• Conference organized at the KITP, Santa Barbara, June 22-26, 2009:
  Critical Issues Related to Higher Temperature Superconductors

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Emergence of Inhomogeneous Phases, Paris, France, July 3, 2009.

• Invited talk given at the KITP Conference on Materials by Design, Santa Barbara, CA, February 12, 2010:
  Iridates - The New Frontier

• Invited talk given at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 17, 2010:
  Iron-age Superconductors

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Emergent Quantum States in Complex Correlated Matter, Dresden, Germany, Aug. 23-27, 2010:
  The Electronic Phase Diagram of the Cuprates

• Lecture given at the Fourth MaNEP Winter School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, January 9-14, 2011:
  Iron-age Superconductors

• Invited talk given at the Workshop on Unconventional Superconductivity, Minneapolis, MN, April 22, 2011:
  Fermi-surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity

• Colloquium at Columbia University, New York, April 25, 2011:
  AdS/CFT - Playing the Devil’s Advocate

• Colloquium at Fermi National Laboratory, June 22, 2011:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 25 years, where are we at?

• Invited Talk at the First Centennial of Superconductivity, Cali, Columbia, June 29 - July 1, 2011:
  Cuprates - An Overview

• Seminar at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, October 21, 2011:
  Do Vortices Really Exist above T_c in Underdoped Cuprates?

• Invited Talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Feb. 28, 2012:
  The Challenge of Unconventional Superconductivity

• Invited talk at the Workshop ​“From Quantum Foundations to Quantum Fluids”, Toulouse, France, April 5, 2012:
  Fermi-surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity

• Invited Talk at the NSLS Users Meeting, Brookhaven Natl. Lab, May 22, 2012:
  What Novel Spectroscopic Techniques Can Tell us
  about the Physics of Strongly Correlated Materials

• Invited Talk at the American Conference on Neutron Scattering, Georgetown University, June 25, 2012:
  The Neutron spin Resonance in Superconductors: Is It Really a Spin Triplet?

• Invited Talk at the Innovations in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Workshop, Trieste, Italy, August 13, 2012:
  Arcs versus Pockets - To d-wave or not to d-wave, that is the question

• Invited Talk at Superconductivity 297K – Synthetic Routes to Room Temperature Superconductivity, San Jose, CA, Oct. 17, 2012:
  Stay Away from Theorists

• Talk at UIUC, May 31, 2013:
  Materials Design for New Superconductors

• Invited Talk at Competing Interactions and Colossal Response in Transition Metal Compounds, Telluride CO, July 19, 2013:
  X-Ray Dichroism, Chiraity, and Orbital Currents

• Talk at Matls. Sci. Dept., NWU, Jan 14, 2014:
  Materials Design for Superconductors

• Talk at Physics Div., ANL, Jan. 17, 2014:
  Monopoles, Anapoles, Skyrmions, Majoranas and Higgs - Welcome to the New World of Condensed Matter Physics

• Invited Talk at Quantum Criticality in Correlated Materials, Natal, Brazil, July 25, 2014:
  Is the Pseudogap a CDW Gap?

• Invited Talk at the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Meeting, Bethesda, MD, December 8, 2014:
  Materials by Design and Condensed Matter Connections to High Energy Physics

• Invited Talk at Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity, Geneva, Switzerland, August 26, 2015:
  Thoughts on the Pseudogap

• Talk at Physics Dept., NWU, Oct. 15, 2015:
  Correlated Defects in the Kagome Spin Liquid Herbertsmithite

• Invited Talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 5-9, 2018:
  What’s Up with the Cuprates?

• Invited Talk at AJL@80: Challenges in Quantum Foundations, Condensed Matter Physics and Beyond, March 2018:
  What’s Up with the Cuprates?

• Talk at Physics Dept., MIT and Tulane, October 2018:
  Mineralogy Inspires Physics

• Invited Talk at Bringing Holography to the Lab, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, January 7-11 2019:
  Correlation Functions: Strange Metals and Spin Liquids

• Invited Talk at The Future of the Correlated Electron Problem Workshop, Baltimore, MD, January 27, 2020:
  Quantum Spin Liquids

Videos on the Web

• Blackboard talk at the KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, February 14, 2005:
  Fermi Surfaces and Quantum Critical Points

• Invited talk at the BCS@50 Conference, Urbana, IL, October 11, 2007:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 20 years, where are we at?

• Invited talk at the KITP, Santa Barbara, CA, February 12, 2010:
  Iridates - The New Frontier

• Invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 17, 2010:
  Iron-age Superconductors

• Colloquium at Fermi National Laboratory, June 22, 2011:
  High Temperature Superconductivity - After 25 years, where are we at?

• Public Lecture at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, March 10, 2012:
  One Hundred Years of Superconductivity