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SpinAge 2010 Retreat

August 27-31, 2010 at Pajaro Dunes, Watsonville California

miniature image of the Spin Age 2010 poster This year's meeting brings together leading world class experts in the field to discuss the latest developments in emerging materials for spintronics, with special focus on topological insulators. There will be a 1-day tutorial session on Saturday, followed by workshops and open discussion on Sunday-Tuesday.

Students, postdocs and other attendees are invited to present posters on their recent work.

The workshop will be held at the conference facilitiies at Pajaro Dunes in Watsonville, California, August 28-31, 2010. Further details and the conference agenda will be available here and at the SpinAge 2010registration website.

on the weekend of April 17-19, 2009.

Membership Rates:

  • Attending: $650 (shared occupancy bedroom)
  • Student: $550 (shared occupancy bedroom)

Additional information
Organizers
SSP Parkin (IBM)
SC Zhang (Stanford)
C Felser (Mainz)

Link to spin currents poster in pdf format   Download the most recent version of the SpinAge 2010 poster, as an Acrobat (pdf) file [1.35MB PDF file]


SpinAge 2010

A SpinAps Retreat
Pajaro Dunes Resort Conference Center, Watsonville, California
August 27-31, 2010

Agenda     Download PDF of Agenda

All sessions will take place at the Cypress House building

Friday * Saturday * Sunday * Monday * Tuesday

Friday August 27th

  3:00-5:30 pm Registration outside of Cypress House for Conference Badge and Information and Sleeping Rooms
  5:30 pm

Dinner in Cypress House

 

Opening Session
(all sessions will take place in the Tent outside Cypress House)

       6:50-7:00 pm Welcome by the organizers!
 

Session I:  Novel materials

Discussion Leader – Stuart Parkin

  7:00-8:00 pm Rationalizing the exotic properties of oxides
Art Ramirez
University of California, Santa Cruz
  8:00-9:00 pm Topological Insulators (Tutorial and recent developments)
Xiaoling Qi
Stanford University
  9:00-10:30 pm S'mores and Bonfire on the Beach
 
 Friday * Saturday * Sunday * Monday * Tuesday
 

Saturday, August 28th

  7:30-9:00 am Breakfast in Cypress House
 

Session II: Methods and Introduction to Topological Insulators

Discussion Leader – Claudia Felser

  9:00-10:00 am Advanced structural characterization (Tutorial)
Steve Conradson
Los Alamos National Laboratory
  10:00-10:15 am Break
  10:15-11:15 am

Theory of Heusler compounds (Tutorial)
Jürgen Kübler
University of Darmstadt, Germany

 

 11:15 -11:30 am

 Break

  11:30-12:30 am ARPES measurements on topological insulators (Tutorial)
Yulin Chen
Stanford University

 

  12:30-2:00 pm Lunch on the Beach
  2:00-3:00 pm Developments in Electronic Structure Methods (Tutorial)
Warren Pickett
University of California, Davis
  3:00 -3:15 pm Break
 

Session III: Electronic Structure and Topological Insulators

Discussion Leader – Shoucheng Zhang

  3:15-4:15 pm Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth and Novel Properties of Topological Insulator Films of Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3
Xi Chen
Tsinghua University, Beijing
  4:15-4:30 pm Break
  4:30-5:30 pm Nanoribbons of Topological Insulators
Yi Cui
Stanford University
  5:30-5:45 pm Break
  5:45-6:45 pm Conservation law of “spin” in the spin-orbit coupled system
Naoto Nagaosa
University of Tokyo
  7:00 pm Dinner in Cypress House
 

Session IV: Topological Insulators

Discussion Leader – Warren Pickett

 

 

8:30-9:30 pm
Quantized anomalous Hall effect and topological insulators
Shou Cheng Zhang
Stanford University
  9:30 pm Discussion with refreshments
 
 Friday * Saturday * Sunday * Monday * Tuesday
 

Sunday, August 29th

  7:30-8:30am Breakfast in Cypress House
 

Session V: Spintronic Phenomena

Discussion Leader – Stuart Parkin

  8:30-9:30 am Spin wave Seebeck effect in magnetic insulators
Gerrit Bauer
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  9:30-9:45 am Break
  9:45-10:45 am Spin-Wave Spin Current as a Transmission Tool of Electric Signal and Thermal Energy
Sadamichi Maekawa
Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan
  10:45 -11:00 am Break
  11:00-12:00 am Stochastic Nature in Magnetization Reversal and Domain Wall Motion
Mi-Young Im and Sung-Chul Shin
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
  12:00 -12:15 am Break
  12:15-1:15 pm    IR Spectroscopy of topological insulators
Dimitri Basov
University of California, San Diego
 

1:15 pm

Bagged Lunch
Sightseeing tours or Discussion
  7:00 pm Dinner in Cypress House
 

Session VI: Exotic Phenomena

Discussion Leader – Shoucheng Zhang

  7:30-8:30 pm Towards exciton BEC in oxide heterostructures?
Hans Hilgenkamp
  8:30-9:30 pm Spin Transfer Torques at Ultralow Current Densities
 Christian Pfleiderer
TU Munich, Germany
  9:30  pm  Discussion and Refreshments
 
 Friday * Saturday * Sunday * Monday * Tuesday
 

Monday, August 30th

 

7:30-8:30 am

Breakfast in Cypress House

 

Session VII

  Discussion Leader – Christian Pfleiderer

  9:00-10:00 am Complex oxide heterostructures by MBE
Susanne Stemmer
University of California Santa Barbara
  10:00-10:15 am Break
 

10:15 -11:15 am

Generating New Electronic Phases with Oxide Nanostructures
Warren Pickett
University of California Davis

  11:15-11:30 am Break
  11:30-12:30 am Unusual Transport Properties at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface
Jean-MarcTriscone
University of Geneva ,
  12:30-2:00 pm Lunch in Cypress House
 

Session VIII:

Discussion Leader – TBD

  2:00-2:30 pm Time-Reversal Polarization in Topological Insulators
Jürgen Kübler
University of Darmstadt, Germany
  2:30 -2:45 pm  Break
 

2:45-3:45 pm

Design-Principles and coupling mechanism in the Topological Insulator HgTe/CdTe
Alex Zunger
National Lab of Renewable Energies

  3:45-4:00 pm Break
  4:00-4:30 pm TBD
Robert de Groot
Nijmegen, Netherland
  4:30-4:45 pm Break
  4:45-5:45 pm Landau-level spectroscopy of Dirac surface state in a topological insulator
Tetsuo Hanaguri
Riken, Japan
  6:00 pm Cocktails and Posters
  6:30-8:30 pm Conference Banquet in the tent
  9:00 pm Posters and refreshments and reception with live music
 
 Friday * Saturday * Sunday * Monday * Tuesday
 

Tuesday, August 31st

  7:30-8:30 am Breakfast in Cypress House
 

Session XI:

Discussion Leader –

  9:00-10:00 am The effect of a step-edge on the surface state of a topological-insulator
Aharon Kapitulnik
Stanford University
  10:00-10:15 am

Break

  10:15 -11:15 am

Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Christoph Brüne
University of Würzburg, Germany

  11:15-11:30 am

Break

  11:30-12:30 am Witten effect and wormhole effect in strong topological insulators
Marcel Franz
UBC, Canada
  12:30-2:00 pm Lunch on the Beach

 




  

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