Programme Committee


CHAIRS

  • Manuel Vazquez, ICMM CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
  • Josep Fontcuberta, ICMAB CSIC, Barcelona (Spain)
  • Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego (USA)

TOPIC 1


Strongly Correlated Electron System (SCES)
(including Superconductivity / Multiferroics)

  • Topic Chairs


Coordinator:

  • Jose Carlos Gómez-Sal, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  • Ernst Bauer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 
  • Laura Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

  • Subtopics


Ferroics and Multiferroics
Meigan Aronson, Stony Brook, Univ., New York, USA
Je-Geun Park, Seoul National, Univ., Korea

Superconductivity and magnetism, including exotic superconductivity
Yuji Matsuda, Kyoto University, Japan
Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge, UK

Topological Insulators and metal-insulators transitions
Anne de Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hermann Suderow, Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain

Heavy Fermion Physics including Valence and charge fluctuations
Joe Thompson, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., USA
Georg Knebel, Inac - CEA, Grenoble, France

Quantum magnetism and physics of frustration
Claudine Lacroix, Institut Nèel , CNRS, Grenoble, France
Jose Ignacio Espeso , University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Non-Fermi Liquids and Quantum criticality 
Qimiao Si, Rice University, Houston, USA
Tuson Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

Kondo physics in bulk materials and nanoscale structures
Steffen Wirth Max Planck-Inst. for Chemical Physics, Dresden, Germany
Marian Reiffers, Slovakian Acad. Science, Kosiçe, Slovakia

Theory of Strongly Correlated Matter
Kazumasa Miyake, Osaka University, Japan
Mucio Continentino, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

New Developments
Huiqiu Yuan, Zhejiang University, China
Marisa Medarde, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland



TOPIC 2


Spin Systems & Magnetic Structures

  • Topic Chairs

Coordinator:

  • Ingrid Mertig, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • Isabelle Mirebeau, CEA - Saclay, France 
  • Juan Bartolomé, ICMA, Zaragoza, Spain

  • Subtopics

Low-dimensional. Quantum Spin-Hall effect
Sergio Valenzuela, Institut Català de Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, Spain
Andrey Zheludev, ETH Zürich, Lab. f. Festkörperphysik, Switzerland

Molecular Magnetism 
Fernando L. Vitalla, Inst. Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain
Alessandro Vindigni, ETH Zürich, Lab. f. Festkörperphysik, Switzerland

Highly frustrated magnetism 
Robert Stamps, University of Glasgow, UK
Sylvain Petit, Lab. Léon Brillouin, Saclay, France

Spin-orbit and spin-lattice couplings 
Pietro Gambardella, ETH Zürich, Lab. f. Festkörperphysik, Switzerland
Virginie Simonet, Inst. L. Neel, Grenoble, France

Magnetism theory & simulation of quantum and classical systems
Eugene Chudnovsky, The City University of New York, USA
Luis Brey, Inst. Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid-CSIC, Spain

Electronic Structure. Itinerant-electron magnetism. Half-metals. Insulators 
Claudia Felser, Max Planck-Inst. for Chemical Physics, Dresden, Germany
Heiko Wende, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Magnetic phase transitions and magnetic interactions 
Teresa Fernandez-Diaz, Inst. Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France
Vitor Amaral, University Aveiro, Portugal

Magnetic semiconductors and Diluted magnets
Jesus Chaboy Nalda, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Tomasz Dietl, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Actinides & Lanthanides 
Jesús Rodríguez Fernández, University ofCantabria, Santander, Spain
António Pereira Gonçalves, Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, IST, Lisbon, Portugal

Advanced methods of spin structure determination    
Urs Staub,Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Jose Luis García Muñoz, ICMAB CSIC, Barcelona (Spain)

TOPIC 3

 

Spin electronics and transport & magnetization dynamics and micromagnetics

  • Topic Chairs


Coordinator:

  • Hideo Ohno, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan 
  • Mark Stiles, NIST Gaithersburg, USA 
  • Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko, ICMM CSIC, Madrid, Spain

  • Subtopics


Metal spintronics
Shinji Yuasa, Nat. Inst. Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Hyun-Woo Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea

Semiconductor spintronics
Jianhua Zhao, Inst Semiconducotrs, Chinese Ac. Sciences, Beijing, China
Gian Salis, Zurich Research Lab., IBM, Zurich, Switzerland

Organic spintronics. Carbon-based spintronics
Felix Casanova, Nanogune, S.Sebastian, Spain
Masashi Shiraishi, University of Kyoto, Japan

Spin transfer torque and spin transfer oscillators
Masamitsu Hayashi, Nat. Inst. for Materials Science, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan
Matt Pufall, NIST, Boulder, USA

Domain wall motion
Andre Thiaville, University of Paris Sud, France
Eduardo Martinez, University of Salamanca, Spain

Electric field effect on magnetic systems 
Daichi Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan
Vincent Garcia, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Paris, France

Spin caloritronics
Christian Heiliger, University of Giessen, Germany
Barry Zink, Denver University, USA

Fast and ultrafast magnetization dynamics
Markus Munzenberg, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Univer., Greifswald, Germany
Andrzej Maziewski, University of Białystok, Poland

Spinwave dynamics and magnonics
Antonio Azevedo, University Federal Pernanbuco, Brazil
Paolo Vavassori, Nanogune, San Sebastian, Spain

Vortex and skyrmion dynamics
Konstantin Guslienko, University of Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
Dora Altbir, University of Santiago, Chile
Mark Freeman, University of Alberta, Canada



TOPIC 4


Magnetism of nanoscale systems: thin films, nanostructures and nanoparticles

  • Topic Chairs

Coordinator:

  • Sam Bader, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA
  • Russell Cowburn, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Dino Fiorani, CNR Rome, Italy

  • Subtopics


Magnetic thin films and multilayers 
Jordi Sort, Aut. University of Barcelona, Spain
Jiyeong Gu, California St. University, Long Beach, USA

Thin film nanostructures
Burkhard Hillebrands, University of Kaiserlautern, Germany
Ernesto Marinero, Purdue University, USA 

Magnetic nanoparticles 
Peter Svedlindh, Uppsala University, Sweeden
Anna Roig, Inst. Ciencia de Materiales, Barcelona, Spain

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy materials
Massimo Solzi, University of Parma, Italy
Alberto Bollero, IMDEA, Madrid, Spain

Surface and interface effects
Aitor Mugarza, CIN2, Barcelona, Spain
Rosa Alejandra Lukaszew, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

Exchange bias and exchange springs
Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Lab., Illinois, USA
Rafael Morales, University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

Theory and modeling
Alessandra Continenza, University dell'Aquila, Italy
Kalliopi.N. Trohidou, NCSR Democritos, Athens, Greece

Hybrid nanostructures
Alexandre Buzdin, University of Bordeaux , France
Alexander Granovsky, Moscow State University, Russia

Arrays of magnetic nanostructures
Caroline Ross, MIT, USA
John Xiao, University of Delaware, USA

Magnetic nanodots, nanowires and nanotubes
Joao P. Araujo, Porto University, Portugal
Kristen Buchanan, Colorado St. University, USA

Manetophotonics and magnetoplasmonics
Vasily Temnov, CNRS Le Mans, France
Vladimir Belotelov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia 



TOPIC 5


Magnetic Materials and Technologies for: energy, information & life

  • Topic Chairs


Coordinator:

  • Ricardo Ibarra, ICMA, Zaragoza, Spain 
  • Oliver Gutfleisch, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany  
  • Eric Fullerton, CMRR,  UC San Diego, USA

  • Subtopics


Soft and Hard magnetic materials 
Jose M. Barandiaran, University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
George Hadjipanayis, University of Delaware, USA

Nanocrystalline & amorphous materials soft magnets
Ferrites, Garnets and oxide materials
Rare-earth hard magnetic materials
Intermetallic & other hard magnets
Nanostructured and composite hard magnetic materials
Coercivity Mechanisms

Materials for Energy applications
Franca Albertini , CNR, Parma, Italy
Victorino Franco, University of Seville, Spain

Applications of high performance soft and hard materials
Energy harvesting materials
Shape memory alloys
Magnetocaloric materials and magnetic refrigeration

Magnetic Devices and Novel materials
Cristina Gomez-Polo, Publ. University of Navarra, Spain
Frederic Petroff, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Paris, France

Magnetostrictive devices
Magnetic sensors 
Microwave materials and devices
Novel magnetic materials & Devices            
Novel spintronic materials and devices

Magnetic information storage, memories and computation 
Jose M. De Teresa, ICMA, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, SPAIN
Susana Cardoso, INESC-MN, Lisbon, Portugal

Advanced and bit-patterned recording media
Energy assisted magnetic recording
Magnetoresistive materials for novel read sensors 
Magnetic random access memories
Magnetic information processing and logics

Applied magnetism of organic compounds and Biomedical applications 
Gerardo Goya, INA, Zaragoza, Spain
Juergen Kosel, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Magnetism in macromolecules and polymers    
Magnetic nanoparticles: drug delivery image enhancement and magnetic
hyperthermia
Magnetism in biological media, magnetic effects and biomedicine applications
Magnetic transducers and field sensors in biomedicine

Measuring techniques and instrumentation 
Clemence Ritter, ILL, Grenoble, France
Agustina Asenjo, Inst. Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid-CSIC, Spain

Magnetometry at the nano-scale
Magnetic microscopies, scanning probes
Magnetism & superconductivity by large facilities (neutron, synchrotron)
Instrumentation and interdisciplinary technologies