Ordering and dynamics in magnetic nanostructures

June 07 - 08, 2012

Russia, St.Petersburg,
Palace of Kochubey


Thursday, June 07

09:00 - 09:10 Opening remarks and organization

1. Magnetic nanostructures: perspectives and reality (Chair V.Uzdin)

09:10 - 10:10
    Hartmut Zabel (Bochum)
    "Magnetic nanostructures: experiences, challenges and visions"
10:10 - 11:10
    Björgvin Hjörvarsson (Uppsala)
    "A perspective on hierarchy of magnetic ordering"
11:10 - 11:40
    - - - Coffee break - - -
11:40 - 12:10
    Emil Melander (Uppsala)
    "Surface Plasmon enhanced magneto-optial kerr effect in patterned Ni films"
12:10 - 12:30
    Anna Popova (SPb)
    "Quasi-freestanding graphene by intercalation of different metals"
12:30 - 14:00
    - - - Lunch - - -

2. Quantum well states in magnetic nanostructures (Chair W. Keune)

14:00 - 15:00
    Marek Przybylski (Halle)
    "Quantum Well States and Magnetic Anisotropy"
15:00 - 16:00
    Alexander Shikin (SPb)
    "Induced spin-orbit splitting of electron states in thin layers of metals and grapheme"
16:00 - 16:30
    - - - Coffee break - - -

3. Calculation of nanostructures at various scales (Chair H.Jonsson)

16:30 - 17:30
    Valery Stepanuk (Halle)
    "Electronic, magnetic and transport properties at the atomic scale"
17:30 - 18:20
    Valery Uzdin (SPb)
    "Non-collinear itinerant magnetism and non-Heisenberg magnetic coupling"
18:20 - 18:40
    Sergej Ulyanov (SPb)
    "Correlation of interface roughness from the specular X-ray spectra"
18:40 - 19:00
    Maria Moskalenko (SPb)
    "Exchange spring system with two soft layers"

Friday, June 08

4. Particle and spin rearrangement at atomic scale (Chair H. Wende)

9:00 - 10:00
    Hannes Jonsson (Reykjavik)
    "Methods for calculating the mechanism and rate of thermal transitions"
10:00 - 10:45
    Pavel Bessarab (SPb, Reykjavik )
    "Magnetic thermal transitions and quantum tunneling in nanostructures"
10:45 - 11:15
    - - - Coffee break - - -
11:15 - 12:00
    Ruslan Salikov(Bochum)
    "Spin pumping effect in spin valve structures"
12:00 - 12:30
    Sergej Makarov (Duisburg)
    "Improved interfacial local structural ordering of epitaxial Fe3Si(001) thin films on GaAs(001) by a MgO(001) tunneling barrier"
12:30 - 14:00
    - - - Lunch - - -

5. Element specific measurements of magnetism (Chair B. Hjörvarsson)

14:00 - 15:00
    Werner Keune (Duisburg)
    "Application of Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Nanoscale Magnetism"
15:00 - 16:00
    Heiko Wende (Duisburg)
    "Fascinating magnetism of new Spin-hybrid systems studied element-specifically"
16:00 - 16:30
    - - - Coffee break - - -

6. Magnetism of artificial micromagnetic structures (Chair H.Zabel)

16:30 - 17:00
    Melanie Ewerlin (Bochum)
    "Interaction of PdFe nanoislands on a square lattice"
17:00 - 17:30
    Erik Ostman (Uppsala)
    "Vortex state in a FePd circular Islands"
17:30 - 18:00
    Unnar Arnalds (Uppsala)
    "Kagome Building blocks and artificial spin ice"
    18:00 conclusion remarks
19:00
    - - - Dinner - - -