This year's W. J. Carr Lecture Series on Superconductivity and Advanced Materials will be presented by Prof. Jochen Mannhart from the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Prof Mannhart's research interests are focused on the properties of interfaces in complex electronic materials, and have included work on the discovery and development of bicrystal Josephson junctions and SQUIDs, the enhancement of critical currents of high-Tc superconductors by grain alignment, which is the basis for the modern high-Tc superconducting cables, the first imaging of individual atoms with subatomic resolution, and the fabrication of the first all-oxide FETs. Mannhart has received numerous awards for his research, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis of the German Science Foundation and the Europhysics Prize in 2014.  A Technical Seminar will be given on Monday, January 29 at 4pm in Toll 1201 (more info here), followed by a special Department Colloquium on Tuesday, January 30 at 4pm in 1410 Toll (more info here).