/Workshops

Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: from topology to neuromorphic computing

Mainz, Germany: October 7th - 10th 2019

The new field of antiferromagnetic spintronics focuses on making antiferromagnets active elements of spintronic devices. The higher complexity of the ordered phase and parameter space in antiferromagnets have given rise to new avenues of basic research that range from topological quasiparticle dynamic manipulation, multipole order effects, ultra-fast dynamics, and even applications towards neuromorphic computing and IoT.

The new field is of interest to the strongly correlated effects community and the community focused on topological matter. It has connected to the current ferromagnetic spintronics research by creating entirely new ways of rethinking spin phenomena in antiferromagnets, while benefiting from the pioneering works in antiferromagnetic materials.

This workshop focuses on bringing together the antiferromagnetic spintronic field with the strongly correlated matter and topological matter field, as well as the rapidly evolving field of neuromorphic computing and IoT.

As with previous SPICE workshops, tutorials giving an overview of the different areas and talks will be intermixed within the program.

Organizers

Jairo Sinova (JGU)
Tomas Jungwirth (Prague)
Hideo Ohno (Sendai)
Shunsuke Fukami (Sendai)

Invited Speakers

Ryotaro Arita (Tokyo) Stefano Bonetti (Stockholm) Enrique del Barco (Florida) Claudia Felser (MPI-Dresden) Manfred Fiebig (ETHZ) Shunsuke Fukami (Sendai) Pietro Gambardella (ETHZ) Dazhi Hou (Sendai) Tobias Kampfrath (Berlin) Akashdeep Kamra (Norway) Mathias Kläui (Mainz) Aleksandr Kurenkov (Sendai) Chih-Huang Lai (Taiwan)

Zhiqi Liu (Beihang) Xavier Marti (Pargue) Markus Meinert (Bielefeld) Takahiro Moriyama (Kyoto) Satoru Nakatsuji (Tokyo) Kamil Olejnik (Prague) Helena Reichlova (TU Dresden) Libor Smejkal (Mainz) Cheng Song (Tsinghua) Peter Wadley (Nottingham) Joerg Wunderlich (Regensburg) Hyunsoo Yang (NUS) Fengyuan Yang (OSU)

Topomagnetism Is Coming: Relativity and Correlations in Topological Magnets

Mainz, Germany: September 30th - October 3rd 2019

Remarkable advances in strongly correlated and relativistic condensed matter physics have been made over the past decade by these largely non-interacting communities. Interestingly, their attention recently focused on the same grand challenges such as room-temperature quantum chiral edge modes, topological superconductivity, or topological computation.

The research of nonmagnetic materials culminated in predicting that approximately one third of them exhibit topological electronic structure. In contrast, the investigation of topological magnets is progressing at much slower pace albeit time-reversal symmetry broken topological phases demand magnetic order. For a long time, low-dimensional topological systems were anticipated to be naturally incompatible with robust magnetism. However, recent theoretical and experimental efforts have revealed low-dimensional as well as 3D topological insulators and Weyl semimetal magnets. The relativistic phenomena, e.g. the spin Hall, quantum spin Hall, or magnetic spin-Hall effect, were originally predicted within the single-particle picture. However, realistic predictions of magnetic materials, requires inclusion of the electronic correlations. Conversely, the correct description of strongly correlated magnets with high atomic numbers needs to include spin-orbit coupling phenomena.

In this SPICE Young Research Leaders Workshop, we bring together complementary fields to address the grand challenges requiring the interplay of strongly correlated and relativistic physics. These include i) developments in symmetry classification and indicators of topological and correlated matter, ii) generalized topological matter, such as magnetic, higher-order or correlated topological systems, iii) exotic magnetic orders, iv) numerical electronic structure techniques, and v) experimental methods of growth and characterization of topological structures and low-dimensional magnets. The aim of the meeting is to germinate unanticipated strategies for solving the grand challenges in magnetic correlated and relativistic condensed matter physics, speeding–up identification of realistic material candidates, and foresee next-generation nanoelectronic applications.

Organizers

Ricardo Zarzuela, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
Libor Šmejkal, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)

Co-Organizer:

Jairo Sinova, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)

Participants

Mazhar N. Ali, MPI Halle
Marta Brzezińska, University of Zürich
Tomas Bzdušek, Stanford University
Sebastián Díaz, University of Basel
Jacob Gayles, MPI Dresden
Kevin Geishendorf, Leibniz Institute Dresden
Daniel Gosalbez-Martinez, EPFL Lausanne
Romain Lebrun, JGU Mainz
Alexander Mook, MPI Halle
Paolo Perna, IMDEA Nanoscience
Christina Psaroudaki, University of Basel
Raquel Queiroz, Weizmann Institute of Science
Frank Schindler, University of Zürich
Phoebe M. Tengdin, EPFL
Haruki Watanabe, The University of Tokyo
Hikaru Watanabe, Kyoto University
Maik Wagner-Reetz, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS
Kei Yamomoto, Japan Atomic Energy Agency

 

Novel Electronic and Magnetic Phases in Correlated Spin-Orbit Coupled Oxides

Mainz, Germany: November 12th - 15th 2019

The interplay between spin, orbit and electron correlation has emerged as a new paradigm in contemporary condensed matter physics and represents a rich playground for the realization of novel quantum state of matters with exotic electronic and magnetic properties including Dirac-Mott insulators, Lifshitz/Slater phases, Multipolar and Kitaev model magnetism, unconventional superconductivity and topological physics.

The SPICE workshop “Novel electronic and magnetic phases in correlated spin-orbit coupled oxides” aims to bring together leading experts from four different areas: ab-initio calculations, model Hamiltonians, quantum chemistry, and experiments. This high degree of interdisciplinary promises to lead to conceptual and intellectual exchanges among the diverse communities and promote synergies and cooperation among them.

 

 

 

Organizers

Cesare Franchini, University of Vienna & University of Bologna
Sergii Khmelevskyi, TU Vienna
Roser Valenti, University Frankfurt

Co-Organizer:

Jairo Sinova, JGU Mainz

Invited Speakers

Markus Aichhorn, TU Graz Lilia Boeri, University of Rome Roberto Caciuffo, JRC Karlsruhe Stuart Calder, ORNL Liviu Chibotaru, KU Leuven Maria Daghofer, University of Stuttgart George Jackeli, MPI Stuttgart University of Bologna Lukas Janssen, TU Dresden Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto Dianiel Khomskii, University of Cologne Bongjae Kim, Kunsan National University

Peitao Liu, University of Vienna Igor Mazin, NRL Washington Vesna Mitrovic, Brown University Peter Oppeneer, Uppsala University Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota Warren E. Pickett, UC Davis Leonid Pourovskii, CPHT Paris Samuele Sanna, University of Bologna Alexander Shick, Institute of Physics Prague Igor Solovyev, NIMS Tsukuba Sergey Streltsov, Institute of Metal Physics Ekaterinenburg Stephen M. Winter, University Frankfurt

Molecular Electro-Opto-Spintronics

Mainz, Germany: October 15th - 18th 2019

Molecular electronics originally promised miniaturization of molecular devices using Nature’s smallest building blocks to allow for novel electronic function by simply altering the chemical structure of the molecular component. Molecular electronics has evolved towards a complementary technology to silicon-based electronics, providing functionalities not possible with classical electronic devices. After more than 40 years of experiments, it remains a challenge to rationally design molecule-electrode junctions due the complex interplay between electronic structure and the chemical/supramolecular arrangement of the interfaces. Unlike traditional CMOS electronics, comprehensive design rules for molecular junctions are not available yet. Only bits and pieces have been published scattered across disciplines, including interface engineering, supramolecular chemistry, surface science, computational science, physics, chemistry, optics, biology and micro/nanofabrication. This workshop aims at bringing into the same discussion forum a diverse group of researchers with varied expertise in the areas of molecular electronics and spintronics, nanoscale photonics, plasmonics, and bioelectronics, to map out routes leading to solutions to longstanding problems in integrating molecular junctions in emerging technologies by identifying new materials and device paradigms to optimise device performance, reproducibility and robustness. Such new molecular-scale design rules are needed for potential applications in neuromorphic computing, sensor fusion, biometrics and Industry 4.0.

 

Organizers

Enrique del Barco: University of Central Florida (UCF)
Christian A. Nijhuis: National University of Singapore (NUS)
Damien Thompson: University of Limerick (UL)

Co-Organizer:

Jairo Sinova (JGU)

Invited Speakers

Marco Affronte, CNR Italy Javier Aizpurua, CSIC Spain Jochen Blumberger, University College London Lapo Bogani, Oxford David Cahen, Weizmann Inst. of Science and Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel Salvador Cardona, Instituto de Ciencia Molecular Valencia Enrique del Barco, UCF Orlando Ismael Diez Perez, Kings College London David Egger, TU Munich Jim Greer, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Cunclan Guo, Wuhan University China Yael Hanein, Tel Aviv University Israel Josh Hihath, University of California-Davis Yoon Hyo Jae, Korea University

Masha Kamenetska, Boston University Yuan Li, Tsinghua University Sebastian Loth, University of Stuttgart Richard McCreery, University of Alberta Atindra Nath Pal, Kolkata, India Christian Albertus Nijhuis, National University of Singapore Andrew Pike, Newcastle University David Sanchez, Universitat Illes Balears Spain Guillaume Schull, University Strasbourg Damien Thompson, University of Limerick Herre van der Zant, Delft University of Technology Jaume Veciana, Institut de ciencia de materials Barcelona Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, University Karlsruhe Michael Zharnikov, University Heidelberg

 

Ultrafast Spintronics

Bokor, Jeffrey: Picosecond magnetic switching by pure charge current pulses
Bossini, Davide: Tutorial: Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic materials
Ciccarelli, Chiara: Ultrafast readout of a ferromagnet and antiferromagnet
Davies, Carl: Thermally-controlled magnetization dynamics in a dielectric iron-garnet
Del Barco, Enrique: High-Frequency Spin Pumping from Antiferromagnetic Insulator MnF2
Dieny, Bernard: Tutorial: Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)
Feng, Wangxiang: Topological Magneto-Optical Effect and Its Quantization in Noncoplanar Antiferromagnets
Freimuth, Frank: Photocurrents in magnetic bilayers for ultrafast spinorbitronics
Gomonay, Olena: Femtosecond dynamics of antiferromagnets and entangled magnon states
Heck, Martijn: Optical Networks On Chip – Enabling Future Memory
Hübner, Wolfgang: First-principles approach to ultrafast logic functionalization of magnetic molecules
Koopmans, Bert: Tutorial: merging femtomagnetism with spintronics – Laser-induced spin currents & all-optical switching of spintronic devices
Li, Mo: Ultrafast All-Optical Switching of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions With Sub-Picosecond Infrared Laser Pulses
Mangin, Stéphane: Tutorial: Femto-Second Light and Electron Pulses to switch magnetisation
Mikhailovskiy, Rostislav: Tutorial: Terahertz nonlinear spin control
Münzenberg, Markus: On the subtle interplay of light induced magnetization, driven currents and heat in ultrafast magnetism
Olejnik, Kamil:Anitferromagnetic memory with ultrafast writing speed
Oppeneer, Peter: Tutorial: Fundamentals of light-driven ultrafast spin dynamics in magnetic materials
Pogrebna, Anna: High Field Anomalies of Equilibrium and Ultrafast Magnetism in Rare-Earth Ferrimagnets
Prejbeanu, Lucian: Ultrafast MRAM strategies for cache applications and beyond
Sharma, Sangeeta: Laser induced inter-site spin transfer
van Thourhout, Dries: Silicon Phototonics
Yamada, Kihiro: All-optical helicity dependent switching in Pt/Co/Pt with dual pulses
Weinelt, Martin: Tutorial: Ultrafast spin dynamics and its signature in the electronic structure
Willems, Felix: Magneto-optical constants and their transient changes in ultrafast XUV spectroscopy
Zvezdin, Anatoly: Phase Transitions and Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Ferrimagnets with Compensation Point
Zvezdin, Konstantin: Spin pumping and probe in permalloy dots-topological insulator bilayers

 

Spintronics meets Neuromorphics

 

Akerman, Johan: Mutually synchronized spin Hall nano-oscillator arrays
Bourianoff, George: Reservoir computing implemented with skyrmion fabrics
Brunner, Daniel: Tutorial on reservoir computing
Camsari, Kerem: Tutorial on Stochastic computing with magnetic probabilistic bits
Chialvo, Dante: Tutorial on Critical brain dynamics, a brief overview
Di Ventra, Massimiliano: MemComputing: leveraging physics to compute efficiently
Endoh, Tetsuo: Hardware ANNs using MTJ-based memories
Fernandez-Pacheco, Amalio: Perspectives on 3D Spintronics
Finocchio, Giovanni: MemComputing: leveraging physics to compute efficienly
Fukami, Shunsuke: Associative memory operation using analog spin-orbit torque device
Hamilton, Tara: Tutorial on Stochastic Computing Hardware
Heyderman, Laura: Tutorial on Artificial Spin Ice and Elements of Control for Computation
Hoffmann, Axel: Manipulating Magnetic Skyrmions
Khajetoorians, Alexander: Realization of the Hopfield model infinite size Ising systems with RKKY type interactions
Macia, Ferran: Computing with Spin-Wave Solitons
Mizrahi, Alice: Unconventional computing with stochastic magnetic tunnel junctions
Petrisor, Teodora: Tutorial on The Landscape of Deep Learning: a Quick Overview
Pirro, Philipp: Tutorial on Spin-wave logic: from Boolean to neuromorphic computing
Porod, Wolfgang: Tutorial on Computing with magnetic dots and spintronic dynamical systems
Querlioz, Damien: Bioinspired Computing Leveraging the Non-Linearity of Magnetic Nano-Oscillators
Rasing, Theo: Computing via Exchange Interactions
Stiles, Mark: Reservoir computing with spin-torque nano-oscillators
Vasilaki, Eleni: Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning
Zhao, Weisheng: Skyrmions based Neuromorphic Computing

Faculty Development Workshop: applying the science of learning to your teaching

Helmholtz-Institute Mainz (Staudingerweg 18, 55128 Mainz, Room 131), Germany
November 29th - 30th 2018

 

Faculty Development Workshop: applying the science of learning to your teaching

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) considers the support for young scientific talents to be one of its core responsibilities. When it comes to research and teaching, early career researchers are highly dedicated and contribute essentially to the reputation of their institution.

This workshop aims to bring together faculty and lecturers at JGU to learn and incorporate some of the most recent advances in pedagogy now being implemented globally. It focuses on evidence-based instructional practices that have been proven to work and increase dramatically the learning outcomes of students.

The workshop offers hands on training for faculty and lecturers on how to best implement evidence-based pedagogies and to develop skills in individual career development and mentoring students.

The workshop is aimed at all the academic disciplines in the university and is particularly designed to engage directly the humanities and social science disciplines. The first workshopof this kind in Germany was organized in Mainz in May 2017, focused on science areas and a merging from similar workshops in the USA.

Prof. Andrew Feig is a Cottrell Scholar that was the initiator of CSC New Faculty Workshopsand is has conducted numerous workshops of this type both in the USA and Germany.

Organizers

Andrew Feig (Wayne State University, Michigan)
Mita Banerjee (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Olga Troitschanskaia (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Jairo Sinova (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

 

Ultrafast Spintronics Participants

Mainz, Germany: October 23rd - 26th 2018

• • Ademir Ademan (University of Gothenburg )
  • Utkarsh Bajpai (University of Delaware Physics and Astronomy)
  • Marie Barthelemy (UNISTRA IPCMS, Strasbourg)
  • Nicolas Bergeard (CNRS, IPCMS, University ofStrasbourg DSI)
  • Jeffrey Bokor (UCB)
  • Davide Bossini (TU, Dortmund)
  • Karel Carva (Charles University Department of Condensed Matter Physics)
  • Chiara Cicarelli (University of Cambridge)
  • Enrique Del Barco (Unviersity of Central Florida)
  • Bernard Dieny (INAC)
  • Stefan Eisebitt (MBI, Berlin)
  • Wanxiang Feng (Beiijing Institute of Technology)
  • Freire Fernámdez (Aalto University)
  • Frank Freimuth (Research Center, Jülich)
  • Olena Gomonay (JGU, Mainz)
  • Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez (JGU)
  • Krzysztof Grochot (AGH University of Science and Technology )
  • Martjin Heck ( Aarhus University)
  • Wolfgang Huebner (TU, Kaiserslautern)
  • Tomáš Janda (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
  • Lukasz Karwacki (AGH University of Science and Technology)
  • Petr Khomyakov (Synopsys Denmark A/S )
  • Bert Koopmans (TU, Eidhoven)
  • Mikhail Kozhaev (International Center for Quantum Optics & Quantum Technologies Limited Liability Company)
  • Mo Li (University of Minnesota)
  • Guanqiao Li (Radboud University of Nijmegen)
  • Marco Malvestuto (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
  • Stephane Mangin (Université de Lorraine)
  • Maximilian Merte (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  • Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy (Radboud University)
  • Yuriy Mokrousov (Research Center, Jülich)
  • Tristan Müller (MPI of Microstructure Physics )
  • Markus Munzenberg (University of Greifswald)
  • Shreyas Muralidhar (University of Gothenburg )
  • Petr Němec (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
  • Kamil Olejnik (Prague)
  • Peter Oppeneer (Uppsala University)
  • Thomas Ostler (Sheffield Hallam University)
  • Noejung Park (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Anna Pogrebna (Radboud University)
  • Lucian Prejbeanu (INAC)
  • Theo Rasing (Radboud University)
  • Ulrike Ritzmann (Uppsala University)
  • Sangeeta Sharma (MPI Halle)
  • Robert Sokolewicz (Radboud University)
  • Attila Szilva (Uppsala University)
  • Dries van Thourhout (Ghent University)
  • Clemens von Korff Schmising (MBI, Berlin)
  • Martin Weinelt (FU Berlin)
  • Kihiro Yamada (Radboud University)
  • Konstantin A. Zvezdin (Moscow)
  • Anatoly K. Zvezdin (Moscow)

Participants - Spintronics meets Neuromorphics

Mainz, Germany: October 08th - 12th 2018

• • Johan Akerman (Gothenburg University)
  • Scott Bender (Utrecht University)
  • George Bourianoff (Intel Corporation (retired))
  • Simon Braun (University of Canterbury)
  • Daniel Brunner (Femto-st)
  • Kerem Camsari (Purdue University)
  • Dante Chialvo (CEMSC3-UNSAM)
  • Elisabetta Chicca (Bielefeld University)
  • Diogo Costa (IMEC Thin Films processing)
  • Gyorgy Csaba (Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics)
  • Matthew Daniels (University of Maryland / NIST )
  • Sergej O. Demokritov (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  • Massimiliano Di Ventra (UCSD)
  • Tetsuo Endoh (CIES Tohoku University)
  • Martin Erwann (Thales Group)
  • Karin Everschor-Sitte (JGU)
  • Amalio Fernandez-Pacheco (University of Glasgow)
  • Mauro Ferreira (Trinity College Dublin )
  • Anastasia Fierling (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales (UMR 137))
  • Giovanni Finocchio (Universita' degli Studi di Messina)
  • Shunsuke Fukami (Tohoku University)
  • Julie Grollier (CNRS/Thales)
  • Gernot Güntherodt (RWTH Aachen University )
  • Tara Hamilton (Western Sydney University)
  • Laura Heyderman (ETH Zurich)
  • Axel Hoffmann (Argonne National Laboratory)
  • Alexander Khajetoorians (Radboud University)
  • Ivan Kindiak (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) Laboratory of magnetic heterostructures and spintronics)
  • Mathias Kläui (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
  • Axel Laborieux (Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology C2N)
  • Zhaochu Luo (Paul Scherrer Institute)
  • Ferran Macia (Universitat de Barcelona )
  • Danijela Markovic (CNRS/Thales)
  • Alice Mizrahi (NIST)
  • Hikaru Nomura (Osaka University Material Science)
  • Teodora Petrisor (Thales Group)
  • Marko Petrovic (University of Delaware Department of Mathematical Sciences)
  • Daniele Pinna (JGU)
  • Philipp Pirro (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
  • Wolfgang Porod (University of Notre Dame)
  • Damien Querlioz (Integnano – C2N)
  • Theo Rasing (Radboud University)
  • Mark Stiles (NIST)
  • Weichao Yu (Fudan UniversityDepartment of Physics)
  • Mohammad Zahedinejad (University of Gothenburg Physics)
  • Weisheng Zhao (Beihang University)

Young Research Leaders Group Workshop 2018

Monika Aidelsburger : Floquet engineering with interacting atoms
Monica Allen : Imaging chiral one-dimensional edge modes in a magnetic topological insulator
Mitali Banerjee : Quantization of heat flow in the fractional quantum hall regime
Michael Buchhold : Nonequilibrium Many-Body Dynamics with Dark States
Benedetta Flebus : Quantum impurity relaxometry of magnetization dynamics
Adolfo G. Grushin : Chiral and non-linear optical responses in topological metals
Loïc Henriet : Many-body sub radiant decay dynamics in 1D light-matter systems
Michael Knap : Quantum Thermalization Dynamics - From Information Scrambling to Emergent Hydrodynamics
Renate Landig : Time crystals in strongly interacting dipolar spin systems
Fahad Mahmood : Illuminating and manipulating quantum materials with femptosecond light
David Mross : Theory of Disorder-Induced Half-Integer Thermal Hall Conductance
Olga Petrova : Fractons - New pathway to topological order in 3D
Hannah Price : Exploring higher-dimensional topological physics with ultracold atoms (and photons)
Maksym Serbyn : Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many-body scars
Justin Song : Spontaneous out-of-equilibrium plasmonic magnetism
Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy: Cavity Optomagnonics - Nonlinear dynamics and textures
Brian Zhou : Driving the Quantum Dynamics of Single Diamond Spins with Light