KITP Conference: Concepts in Spintronics

KITP Conference: Concepts in Spintronics
(Sep 30 - Oct 4, 2013)
Coordinators: Leon Balents, Gerrit Bauer, Allan MacDonald, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
Scientific Advisor: Stuart Parkin

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Monday, September 30, 2013
	Session: Spin-Orbit-Induced Spin Torques, Chair: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (UCLA)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP Director)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Robert Buhrman (Cornell)	The Giant spin Hall effect, spin torque, and interfacial spin-orbit phenomena in multilayer ferromagnetic/normal metal nanostructures[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Masamitsu Hayashi (NIMS)	Spin orbit torques and current induced domain wall motion in magnetic heterostructures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
	Session: Spin Torques and Pumping, Chair: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (UCLA)
11:00am	Arne Brataas (Trondheim)	Symmetry of current-induced spin-orbit torques
11:45am	Tom Silva (NIST)	New directions in spin current research at NIST, Boulder[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: New Spintronic Materials, Chair: Allan MacDonald (UT Austin)
2:00pm	Yoshinori Tokura (RIKEN)	Skyrmion dynamics and topological transport phenomena[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Leonid Butov (UCSD)	Spin currents in a coherent exciton gas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Ian Spielman (Maryland)	The spin-Hall effect observed in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Jake Koralek (UC Berkeley)	Spin transport in the 2D electron gas and strongly spin-orbit coupled materials[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
	Session: Topological Materials, Chair: Leon Balents (UCSB)
9:00am	Nitin Samarth (Penn State)	Interfacing topological surface states with magnetism[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Joel E. Moore (UC Berkeley)	Topological edge and surface states: effects of magnetic and superconducting perturbations[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Victor Galitski (Maryland)	Topological Kondo insulators[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Andrei Bernevig (Princeton)	Topological insulators without spin orbit coupling[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Current-Induced Domain-Wall Motion, Chair: Gen Tatara (RIKEN)
2:00pm	Mathias Kläui (Mainz)	Field- and current-induced domain wall dynamics
2:45pm	Xiang-Rong Wang (Hong Kong)	Instability of Walker propagating domain wall solution of 1D LLG equation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Teruo Ono (Kyoto)	Current-induced domain wall motion: Spin-transfer torque vs spin Hall torque[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Geoffrey Beach (MIT)	Current-driven dynamics of chiral ferromagnetic domain walls[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
	Session: Nonelectrical Spin Generation, Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer (Sendai/Delft)
9:00am	Joseph Heremans (Ohio State)	Heat transport by magnons, phonon-drag, and their role in the spin Seebeck effect[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Ken-ichi Uchida (Sendai)	Generation of spin currents from heat, sound, and light
10:30am	Morning Break
	Session: Spin-orbit-induced currents and torques, Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer (Sendai/Delft)
11:00am	Sadamichi Maekawa (JAEA)	Theory of spin current generation in spintronics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Jairo Sinova (Texas A&M)	Anti-damping intrinsic spin-orbit torque arising from Berry phase[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Nonferromagnetic Spintronics, Chair: Jelena Klinovaja (Harvard)
2:00pm	Ewelina Hankiewicz (Würzburg)	Spin helical transport in superconducting topological insulators[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Joerg Wunderlich (Cambridge)	Antiferromagnetic spintronics
3:30pm	FREE AFTERNOON/ SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, October 03, 2013
	Session: Quantum Dots and Nanowires, Chair: Igor Zutic (SUNY)
9:00am	Seigo Tarucha (Tokyo)	Josephson Effects for Quantum Dots and Nanowires
9:45am	Mark Rudner (Copenhagen)	Dynamical nuclear polarization oscillations in quantum dots: Key aspects of electron-nuclear spin dynamics revealed[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Daniel Loss (Basel)	Helical spin textures and Majorana fermions[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Dominik Zumbuhl (Basel)	Evidence for helical nuclear spin order in GaAs quantum wires[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Spin-Orbit Interactions in Metals, Chair: Jelena Klinovaja (Harvard)
2:00pm	Ingrid Mertig (Halle)	Spin Hall and Spin Nernst Effect from first principles[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Hubert Ebert (Munich)	Theoretical description of the anomalous and spin Hall effects in disordered alloys using the Coherent Potential Approximation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
	POSTER PITCH TALKS, Chair: Jelena Klinovaja (Harvard)
4:00pm	Presenters	Poster Pitches[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	POSTER SESSION
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, October 04, 2013
	Session: Electrical Control/Detection of Magnetization Dynamics, Chair: Jose-Carlos Egues (Univ. Sao Paulo)
9:00am	Ilya Krivorotov (UC Irvine)	Nanowire spin Hall oscillator[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Yoshichika Otani (Tokyo)	Inverse spin Hall effect as a means to study non-linear spin fluctuation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Axel Hoffmann (Argonne)	Electric control and detection of spin waves[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Rosa Lopez (Univ. Balearic Islands)	In Memoriam: Markus Büttiker[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:50am	Gerrit E. W. Bauer (Sendai/Delft)	Closing Remarks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm	END OF CONFERENCE/ SHUTTLE

Monday, September 30, 2013

Session: Spin-Orbit-Induced Spin Torques, Chair: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (UCLA)

Session: Spin Torques and Pumping, Chair: Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (UCLA)

Session: New Spintronic Materials, Chair: Allan MacDonald (UT Austin)

Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Session: Topological Materials, Chair: Leon Balents (UCSB)

Session: Current-Induced Domain-Wall Motion, Chair: Gen Tatara (RIKEN)

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Session: Nonelectrical Spin Generation, Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer (Sendai/Delft)

Session: Spin-orbit-induced currents and torques, Chair: Gerrit E. W. Bauer (Sendai/Delft)

Session: Nonferromagnetic Spintronics, Chair: Jelena Klinovaja (Harvard)

Thursday, October 03, 2013

Session: Quantum Dots and Nanowires, Chair: Igor Zutic (SUNY)

Session: Spin-Orbit Interactions in Metals, Chair: Jelena Klinovaja (Harvard)

POSTER PITCH TALKS, Chair: Jelena Klinovaja (Harvard)

Friday, October 04, 2013

Session: Electrical Control/Detection of Magnetization Dynamics, Chair: Jose-Carlos Egues (Univ. Sao Paulo)