Conference Program
 
MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES

May 12-17, 2002
Il Ciocco Hotel and Resort
Lucca (Barga), Italy

Chair:
Robert J. Celotta

Vice Chair:
Patrick Bruno

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFerromagnet-Semiconductor Spin Injection
Discussion Leader: Klaus Ploog (PDI for Solid State Electronics - Berlin)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmBart van Wees (University of Groningen)
"Spin Injection and Spin Transport in Mesoscopic Metal And Semiconductor Structures"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmBerend T. Jonker (Naval Research Laboratory)
"Electrical Spin Injection into Semiconductor Heterostructures"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMagnetic Tunneling Junctions
Discussion Leader: Jagadeesh Moodera (MIT)
9:00 am - 10:00 amThomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"Theory of Spin-Dependent Tunneling"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am Wulf Wulfhekel (Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics)
"Spin-Polarized Tunneling through Single Crystalline and Vacuum Barriers - The Role of Defects"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmStuart S.P. Parkin (IBM Almaden Research Center)
"Spin-Polarized Transport in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Magnetic Tunnel Transistors"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session I
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmMagnetic Imaging
Discussion Leader: John Unguris (NIST - Gaithersburg)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pmHans Hug (University of Basel)
"Progress in Quantitative Magnetic Force Microscopy"
6:30 pm - 7:30 pmChris Hammel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Force-Detected Ferromagnetic Resonance Imaging of Micromagnetic Systems"
8:00 pm Dinner
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am Spin Polarized STM
Discussion Leader: Shirley Chiang (University of California - Davis)
9:00 am - 10:00 amMatthias Bode (University of Hamburg)
"Frontiers of Nanomagnetism Explored by Spin-Polarized STM"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 12:30 pmFerromagnetic Semiconductors
Discussion Leader: Peter Dederichs (Institute for Solid State Research - Jülich)
10:30 am - 11:30 amAllan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)
"Ferromagnetism and Spintronics in Semiconductors"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmTomasz Dietl (Polish Academy of Sciences)
"Manipulation of Spin Order in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session II
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmExchange Bias
Discussion Leader: Ami Berkowitz (UC - San Diego)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pmAndreas Scholl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Microscopic Magnetic Structure at Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Interfaces Revealed by Photoemission Electron Microscopy"
6:30 pm - 7:30 pmChris Leighton (University of Minnesota)
"Magnetization Reversal Asymmetry in Exchange Biased Bilayers"
8:00 pmDinner
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 pmSpin-Orbit and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy
Discussion Leader: Klaus Baberschke (Free University - Berlin)
9:00 am - 10:00 amGerrit van der Laan (Daresbury Laboratory)
"The Anisotropy in the Spin-Orbit Interaction and the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy as Probed by X-Ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 12:30 pmNanomagnets and Nanocontacts
Discussion Leader: Jacques Miltat (University of Paris - South)
10:30 am - 11:30 amWolfgang Wernsdorfer (Laboratory Louis Néel - CNRS)
"Magnetization Switching in Single Nanomagnets"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmJ M D Coey (Trinity College - Dublin)
"Ferromagnetic Nanocontacts"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session III
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmHalf Metal Systems
Discussion Leader: Gernot Güntherodt (RWTH Aachen)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pmHiroyuki Akinaga (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - Tsukuba)
"Material Design of Half-Metallic Zinc-Blende Materials and the Synthesis by Molecular Beam Epitaxy"
6:30 pm - 7:30 pmChia-Ling Chien (Johns Hopkins University)
"Determination of Spin Polarization in Half-Metallic CrO2"
8:00 pmDinner
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 amSuperconductor Tunneling and 1D - Ferromagnetism
Discussion Leader: Andrew Kent (New York University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amJoseph Stroscio (NIST - Gaithersburg)
"Superconducting Spin Detection in Vacuum Tunneling"
9:30 am - 10:00 amPietro Gambardella (Institute for the Physics of Nanostructures - Lausanne)
”Ferromagnetism in One-Dimensional Monatomic Metal Chains”
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 12:30 pm Polarization Transfer
Discussion Leader: Paul Kelly (University of Twente)
10:30 am - 11:30 amAlbert Fert (University of Paris - South)
"Magnetization Reversal by Injection of a Spin-Polarized Current"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmDarron Young(University of California - Santa Barbara)
"Optoelectric Structures for Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Computation"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 5:30 pmFree Time
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmBio-Magnetoelectronics and Quantum Computing
Discussion Leader: Ingrid Mertig (University of Halle)
5:30 pm - 6:30 pmGary Prinz (Naval Research Laboratory)
"Bio-Magnetoelectronics"
6:30 pm - 7:30 pmDaniel Loss (University of Basel)
"Spintronics and Quantum Computing in Nanostructures"
8:00 pmDinner
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 pmBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

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