Program



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Monday, September 26  
   
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception
   
   
Tuesday, September 27  
   
09:00 - 09:20 Frank Jülicher (Managing Director of MPIPKS Dresden) & Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
 
Quantum simulation & functional design I
(Chair: Kazunori Sato)
   
9:20 - 10:00 Atsushi Oshiyama (The University of Tokyo)
  Materials Design through Computics*: Nanowires and Nanotubes
   
10:00 - 10:20 Nicolae Atodiresei (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  Engineering the magnetic properties of hybrid organic-ferromagnetic interfaces by molecular chemical functionalization
   
10:20 - 10:40 Koun Shirai (Osaka University)
  Material design for superconductivity on semiconducting boron
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
 
Spin-orbit coupling effects in transport
(Chair: Laszlo Szunyogh)
   
11:10 - 11:50 Martin Gradhand (University of Bristol)
  The spin Hall effect - searching for ideal materials
   
11:50 - 12:10 Alexander Shick (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Electron correlations and extrinsic spin Hall effect for transitional metal impurities in gold
   
12:10 - 12:30 Leonid Sandratskii (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
  Non-adiabatic study of spin-wave excitations in antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic FeRh
   
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
   
13:30 - 14:30
Poster session I
 
Dynamics I
(Chair: Peter H. Dederichs)
   
14:30 - 15:10 Mark Stiles (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
  Current-induced torques in the presence of spin-orbit coupling
   
15:10 - 15:50 Gerrit Bauer (Technische Universität Delft)
  Spin pumping by a magnetic insulator
   
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
   
 
Dynamics and relaxation effects I / Dynamics II
(Chair: Leonid Sandratskii)
   
16:20 - 17:00 Ilja Turek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Theory of tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance from ab initio and model approaches
   
17:00 - 17:20 Hiroshi Nakanishi (Osaka University)
  The first principles simulation code for the muon and proton on the solid surface, in the subsurface and bulk
   
17:20 - 17:40 Sergej Mankovskyy (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  Ab-initio calculation of the Gilbert damping parameter via linear response formalism
   
17:40 - 19:00 Dinner
   
   
Wednesday, September 28  
   
 
Correlation and spectroscopy
(Chair: Shinji Tsuneyuki)
   
9:00 - 9:40 Jan Minar (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  Correlation effects - from simple metals to complex systems: Recent developments in electronic structure and spectroscopic calculations
   
9:40 - 10:00 Ondrej Sipr (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Influence of the d band correlations on x-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism spectra: a LSDA+DMFT study
   
10:00 - 10:40 Olle Eriksson (Uppsala University)
  First principles spin-dynamics applied to bulk and surfaces
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
 
Computational schemes I
(Chair: Alexander Shick)
   
11:10 - 11:50 Shinji Tsuneyuki (The University of Tokyo)
  First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculation of Solids with a Similarity-Transformed Hamiltonian
   
11:50 - 12:30 Takao Kotani (Tottori University)
  LAPW+LMTO method applied to molecules
   
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
   
13:30 - 14:30
Poster session II
   
 
Computational schemes II / Quantum simulation & functional design II
(Chair: Phivos Mavropoulos)
   
14:30 - 15:10 Markus Eisenbach (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
  Thermodynamics of Magnetic Systems from First Principles
   
15:10 - 15:50 Igor Abrikosov (Linköping University)
  Towards predictive theoretical simulations of materials for electronic and spintronic applications
   
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break
   
 
Transport I
(Chair: Hisazumi Akai)
   
16:20 - 17:00 Koichiro Inomata (National Institute for Materials Science)
  GMR and TMR in devices based on full-Heusler alloys
   
17:00 - 17:20 Daniel Wortmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  Electronic tunneling through transition metal oxides: The role of the barrier
 
17:20 - 17:40 Yi Liu (University of Twente)
  Towards ab initio temperature dependent electronic transport from scattering theory
   
19:00 Conference Dinner
   
   
Thursday, September 29  
   
 
Surfaces & interfaces I
(Chair: Daniel Wortmann)
   
9:00 - 9:40 Wulf Wulfhekel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Single spins on surfaces
   
9:40 - 10:00 Masahito Tsujikawa (Tohoku University)
  Electric-field modulation of magnetic anisotropy at surfaces and interfaces
   
10:00 - 10:20 Tatsuki Oda (Kanazawa Universtiy)
  Magnetic anisotropy and its electric field effect in the magnetic films
   
10:20 - 10:40 Amit Kumar Khare (Barkatullah Universtiy, Bhopal)
  Electronic structure studies of Fe doped CeO thin films
   
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
   
 
Surfaces & interfaces II / Quantum simulation & functional design III
(Chair: Atsushi Oshiyama)
   
11:10 - 11:30 Laszlo Szunyogh (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  Multiscale study of complex magnetic structure of ultrathin Fe/Ir(001) films
   
11:30 - 11:50 Kazunori Sato (Osaka University)
  Quasi-one-dimensional nano-structure in Cu-Ni and Fe-Cu alloys: Giant Peltier effect and strong ferromagnet
   
11:50 - 12:10 Yasuyuki Matsuura (Hiroshima University)
  First-principles calculations of the electronic properties and structural stabilities of cobalt hydrides
   
12:10 - 12:30 Tien Quang Nguyen (Osaka University)
  Computational materials design case studies: Oxidation of metal / metal oxide systems
   
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
   
 
Transport II / Dynamics and relaxation effects II
(Chair: Martin Gradhand)
   
13:30 - 14:10 Hisazumi Akai (Osaka Universtiy)
  Transport properties of heterostructures
   
14:10 - 14:30 Josef Kudrnovsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  Magnetotransport in Pd-rich PdFe alloys: Effect of chemical ordering
   
14:30 - 14:50 Phivos Mavropoulos (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  Spin relaxation by impurity scattering in non-magnetic metals
   
14:50 - 15:00 Closing
   
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break & Departure
   
   

Last update: 10/10/2011