Workshop Program

Friday, September 9, 2011 at ESRF Auditorium, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38043 Grenoble

   

 

Session 1

 

Chair: Philippe Nozières
09:00 - 09:10

Philippe Nozières, ILL, France

Opening and Welcome

 

09:10 - 09:40

Tsuyoshi Kimura, Osaka University, Japan

Synthesis, magnetism, and  magnetoelectricity of hexaferrite systems

 

09:40 - 10:10

Andrew Harrison,  ILL, France

The frustrating quest for a perfect quantum kagome antiferromagnet

 

10:10 - 10:40

Jeno Sólyom, RISSPO, Hungary

Topologically ordered and dimerized phases in frustrated spin ladders

 

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
Session 2

 

Chair: Claudine Lacroix

 

11:10 - 11:40

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Institut Néel, France

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interaction in single-molecule magnets

 

11:40 - 12:10

Mike Zhitomirsky, CEA/INAC/SPSMS, France

Field induced spin-nematic state in frustrated magnets

 

12:20 - 13:45 Lunch
Session 3

 

Chair: Timothy Ziman

 

14:00 - 14:30

Claude Berthier, LNCMI, CNRS, France

Field Induced Phase Transitions in quantum spin sytems

 

14:30 - 15:00

Maxim Mostovoy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dynamic magnetoelectric coupling in Mott insulators

 

15:00 - 15:30

Manuel Bibes, UMPhy CNRS/Thales, France

Strain engineering of multiferroic phase transitions and order parameters in BiFeO3

 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Session 4

 

Chair: Efim Kats

 

16:00 - 16:30

Bernard Dieny, SPINTEC, France

Spintronic phenomena and devices

 

16:30 - 17:00

Vladimir Mineev, CEA/INAC/SPSMS, France

Fermi liquid theory and ferromagnetism

 

17:00 - 18:00 Concluding remarks