Scientific Session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Room temperature superconductivity" (4 October 2007)

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On 4 October, 2007, the scientific session of the Division of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences on room-temperature superconductivity was held at the conference hall of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. The following reports were made at this session:(1) Maksimov E G (Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) "Room-temperature superconductivity: myth or reality?"; (2) Božović I (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) "Experiments with atomically smooth thin films of cuprate superconductors: strong electron — phonon coupling and other surprises"; (3) Antipov E V, Abakumov A M (Moscow State University, Chemical Department, Moscow) "Structural design of superconductors based on complex copper oxides"; (4) Kopaev Yu V, Belyavskii V I, Kapaev V V (Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) "With cuprate luggage to room-temperature superconductivity."An abridged version of these reports is given below. •Room-temperature superconductivity: myth or reality?, E G Maksimov Physics-Uspekhi, 2008, Volume 51, Number 2, Pages 167–170 •Experiments with atomically smooth thin films of cuprate superconductors: strong electron—phonon coupling and other surprises, I Božović Physics-Uspekhi, 2008, Volume 51, Number 2, Pages 170–180 •Structural design of superconductors based in complex copper oxides, E V Antipov and A M Abakumov Physics-Uspekhi, 2008, Volume 51, Number 2, Pages 180–190 •With cuprate luggage to room-temperature superconductivity, Yu V Kopaev, V I Belyavskii and V V Kapaev Physics-Uspekhi, 2008, Volume 51, Number 2, Pages 191–198