Preliminary Program – Ultrafast Spintronics Workshop

Tuesday, October 23rd

Morning Session: Optical Switching and Magnetization Dynamics I

08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Theo RASING, Radboud
Opening Remarks
09:20 – 10:20 Bert KOOPMANS, Eindhoven
Tutorial: Merging femtomagnetism with spintronics – Laser-induced spin currents & all-optical switching of spintronic devices
10:30 – 11:00 Markus MÜNZENBERG, Greifswald
On the subtle interplay of light induced magnetization, driven currents and heat in ultrafast magnetism
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 11:50 Kihiro YAMADA, Nijmegen
Efficient all-optical helicity-dependent switching in Pt/Co/Pt with dual laser pulses
12:00 – 12:30 Anna POGREBNA, Nijmegen
Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in High Magnetic Fields
12:40 – 15:00 Lunch & Poster Session

Afternoon Session: Optical Switching and Magnetization Dynamics II

15:00 – 16:00 Peter OPPENEER, Uppsala
Tutorial: Fundamentals of light-driven ultrafast spin dynamics in magnetic materials
16:10 – 16:40 Sangeeta SHARMA, Berlin
Ultrafast optical switching by laser induced inter-site spin transfer
16:40 – 17:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
17:00 – 17:30 Carl DAVIES, Nijmegen
Thermally-controlled magnetization dynamics in a dielectric iron-garnet

Wednesday, October 24th

Morning Session: Antiferromagnetic Optospintronics I

09:00 – 10:00 Rostislav MIKHAILOVSKIY, Nijmegen
Tutorial: Terahertz nonlinear spin control
10:10 – 10:40 Olena GOMONAY, Mainz
Femtosecond dynamics of antiferromagnets and entangled magnon states
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Chiara CICCARELLI, Cambridge
Ultrafast readout of a ferromagnet and antiferromagnet
11:40 – 12:10 Anatoly ZVEZDIN, Moscow
Phase Transitions and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Ferrimagnets with Compensation Point
12:20 – 12:50 Enrique DEL BARCO, Florida
High-Frequency Spin Pumping from Antiferromagnetic Insulator MnF2
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch & Poster Session

Afternoon Session: Towards Technologies

14:30 – 15:30 Bernard DIENY, INAC
Tutorial: Impact of intergrain spin transfer torques due to huge thermal gradients in heat assisted magnetic recording
15:40 – 16:10 Mo LI, Minnesota
Ultrafast All-Optical Switching of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions With Sub-Picosecond Infrared Laser Pulses
16:10 – 16:30 Coffee break & Poster Session
16:30 – 17:00 Dries VAN THOURHOUT, Ghent
Silicon Photonics
17:10 – 17:40 Martijn HECK, Aarhus
Optical Networks On Chip – Enabling Future Memory
17:50 – 18:20 Jeffrey BOKOR, Berkeley
Picosecond magnetic switching by pure charge current pulses
19:30 Conference Dinner
Restaurant Heilig Geist Rentengasse 2 | 55116 Mainz

Thursday, October 25th

Morning Session: Antiferromagnetic Optospintronics II

09:00 – 10:00 Davide BOSSINI, Dortmund
Tutorial: Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic materials
10:10 – 10:40 Kamil OLEJNIK, Prague
Anitferromagnetic memory with ultrafast writing speed
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 Wangxiang FENG, Beijing
Topological Magneto-Optical Effect and Its Quantization in Noncoplanar Antiferromagnets
11:40 – 12:10 Lucian PREJBEANU, INAC
Ultrafast MRAM strategies for cache applications and beyond
12:20 – 14:00 Lunch & Discussion

Afternoon Session: Ultrafast Spinorbitronics

14:00 – 15:00 Stephane MANGIN, Nancy
Tutorial: Femto-Second Light and Electron Pulses to switch magnetisation
15:10 – 15:40 Wolfgang HÜBNER, Kaiserslautern
First-principles approach to ultrafast logic functionalization of magnetic molecules
15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:00 – 16:30 Frank FREIMUTH, Julich
Photocurrents in magnetic bilayers for ultrafast spinorbitronics

Friday, October 26th

Morning Session: New Techniques and Developments

09:00 – 10:00 Martin WEINELT, Berlin
Tutorial: Ultrafast spin and magnetization dynamics in rare earth metals
10:10 – 10:40 Konstantin ZVEZDIN, Moscow
Spin pumping and probe in permalloy dots-topological insulator bilayers
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Felix WILLEMS, Berlin
Magneto-optical constants and their transient changes in ultrafast XUV spectroscopy
11:40 – 12:00 Yuriy MOKROUSOV, Radboud
Closing Remarks
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch