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Sunday, October 4, 2009

16:00 - 18:00 Registration

18:00 – 19:00 Reception

19:00 – 20:30 Dinner

Monday, October 5, 2009

07:00 – 08:15 Breakfast

08:15 – 08:30 Welcome and Announcements

Session I: Spin Dynamics
Session Chairs: TBA

08:30 – 09:20 Driven dynamic mode-splitting of the magnetic vortex translational resonance
Kristen Buchanan, Colorado State University, USA

09:20 – 10:10 Spin transfer switching in magnetic tunnel junctions: time-resolved observation and related eigen excitations
Thibaut Devolder, University of Paris, France

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break

Session II: Spin Dynamics / Magnetic Imaging
Session Chairs: TBA

10:40 – 11:30 Current induced spin-wave emission from ferromagnetic nanostructures
Burkhard Hillebrands, Kaiserslautern University, Germany

11:30 – 12:20 Generation of localized ferromagnetic resonance modes for scanned probe imaging
Chris Hammel, Ohio State University, USA

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 16:00 ad hoc discussions / Free time

16:00 – 18:00 Poster Session with coffee

18:10 – 19:30 Dinner

Session III: Spin Dynamics / Magnetic Imaging
Session Chairs: TBA

19:40 – 20:30 Magnetic soft X-ray microscopy - imaging nanoscale magnetic structures and their fast spin dynamics
Peter Fischer, Advanced Light Source, USA

20:30 – 21:20 Recent progress in quantitative Lorentz microscopy
Marc De Graef, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

07:00 – 08:30 Breakfast

Session IV: Spin Injection
Session Chairs: TBA

08:30 – 09:20 Spin injection structures **
Chris Palmstrψm, University of California – Santa Barbara, USA

09:20 – 10:10 Silicon spintronics: spin injection, manipulation and electrical detection in lateral devices
Berry Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break

Session V: Multiferroics / Nanostructures
Session Chairs: TBA

10:40 – 11:30 Electric field control of magnetism
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California – Berkeley, USA

11:30 – 12:20 Switching behavior and applications of thin film magnetic rings
Caroline Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12:30 – 16:00 Lunch on your own / Free afternoon

16:00 – 18:00 Poster Session with coffee

18:10 – 19:30 Dinner

Session VI: Organic Magnetotransport
Session Chairs:

19:40 – 20:30 Organic spin-valve the first organic spintronics devices
Valy Vardeny, University of Utah, USA

20:30 – 21:20 Organic spintronic structures **
Luis Hueso, University of Leeds/CIC NanoGUNE, UK

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

07:00 – 08:30 Breakfast

Session VII: Magnetic Nanoparticles
Session Chairs: TBA

08:30 – 09:20 2D and 3D correlations in self-assembled arrays of magnetic nanoparticles
Sara Majetich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

09:20 – 10:10 Self-assembled magnetic surface swimmers
Igor Aranson, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break

Session VIII: Technological Applications 1
Session Chairs: TBA

10:40 – 11:30 Applications of magnertic nanoparticles **
Benjamin Yellen, Duke University, USA

11:30 – 12:20 Magnetic race-track memory **
Stuart Parkin, IBM, USA

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 ad hoc discussions / Free time

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

Session VIII: Technological Applications 2

16:00 – 16:50 TBA
Bruce Terris, Hitachi GST, USA

16:50 – 17:40 TBA
Kaizhong Gao, Seagate, USA

17:40 – 18:30 A MOS/MTJ-hybrid circuit with non-volatile circuits logic-in-memory architecture **
Takahiro Hanyu, Tohoku University, Japan

Dinner on your own / Free evening

Thursday, October 8, 2009

07:00 – 08:30 Breakfast

Session IX: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Session Chairs: TBA

08:30 – 09:20 Magnetic tunnel junctions and spin transfer devices **
Liesl Folks, Hitachi GST, USA

09:20 – 10:10 Functional interfacial phenomena in magnetic oxide heterostructures and devices
Yuri Suzuki, University of California – Berkeley, USA

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break

Session X: Magnetic Tunnel Junctions / Spin Torque
Session Chairs: TBA

10:40 – 11:30 Heusler alloy electrode tunnel junctions
Terunobi Miyazaki, Tohoku University, Japan

11:30 – 12:20 Theory of spin torques and related phenomena in conducting ferromagnets
Shufeng Zhang, University of Arizona, USA

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 ad hoc discussions / Free time

15:30 – 17:30 Poster Session with coffee

Session XI: Spin Torque
Session Chairs: TBA

17:30 – 18:20 Spin torque oscillators **
Johan Akerman, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

18:20 – 19:10 Electric-field manipulation of magnetic anisotropy in (Ga,Mn)As
Daichi Chiba, Kyoto University, Japan

19:30 – 21:30 Conference Dinner

Friday, October 9, 2009

07:00 – 08:30 Breakfast

8:30 - 12:00 Session XII: Contributed Talks
Session Chairs: TBA

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break

12:00 – 12:30 Closing Remarks / Conclusions

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and departures

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