Michael Norman is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Director of the Argonne Quantum Institute, and Group Leader for Condensed Matter Theory in the Materials Science Division. He is also the former Director of the Materials Science Division and was 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 of Physical Review X.

His research interests include superconductivity, magnetism, spin liquids, quantum criticality, and the interpretation of spectroscopic data in correlated electron materials.

Publications

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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
• 2023 - present: Director, Argonne Quantum Institute
• 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

• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2023, July 2-7 2023, Incheon, South Korea (international advisory committee)
• 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

• External Advisory Committee, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 2023-present
• 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 (2020-2022)

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

• Video from Straight Arrow News, August 23, 2023:
  LK-99: The room temperature superconductor that wasn’t

• Seminar, Dept. of Physics, Stanford University, Oct. 15, 2020:
  Why haven’t we had the YBCO discovery yet in the nickelates?

• 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