| Monday June 21 |
| 8:00-9:20 a.m. | Registration |
| 9:20-9:30 a.m. | Introductory Remarks: D. Johnson and J.P. Leburton |
| Keynote address |
| 9:30-10:15 a.m. | S. Parkins, IBM: "Racetrack Memory: a current controlled domain-wall shift
register". |
| 10:15-10:35 a.m. | Coffee break |
| Session: Spin Torques and Magnetic Wall Dynamics |
| 10:35-11:10 a.m. | M. Miron, U. A. Barcelona: “Rashba Spin-Orbit torques in ferromagnetic thin films” (invited) (PowerPoint) |
| 11:10-11:45 a.m. | Mathias Kläui, U. Konstanz,: “Current-induced magnetization dynamics”. (invited).
(PDF) |
| 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Lunch break |
| Session: Hybrid Spintronic Materials and Devices |
| 1:00-1:35 p.m. | Y. Xu, U. York: “Metal-Semiconductor hybrid spintronic materials and devices” (invited) (PDF) |
| 1:35-2:10 p.m. | Li Li, Xiangyuan Cui, Simon P. Ringer and Rongkun Zheng, U. Sydney: “Microscopic Origin of the Magnetism Observed in the ZnO-based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors” (invited) (Presentation not available.) |
| 2:10-2:35 p.m. | John DeGrave, Andrew Schmitt, Jeremy Higgins, Song Jin, U. Wisconsin, Madison: “Silicon and Silicide Nanowires for Spintronics”. |
| 2:35-3:00 p.m | Jim Sadler, Doug Szumski, Walther Schwarzacher, Richard Nichols , Kevin Stella, Mariano Fonticelli, Barbara Blum, Roberto Salvarezza, Guillermo Benitez, Physics Department, U. Bristol: “Octanethiol on Ni for Spintronic Applications” |
| 3:00-3:20 p.m. | Coffee break |
| Session: Magnetic Semiconductors |
| 3:20-3:55 p.m. | P. Koenraad, Eindhoven: “Single impurity manipulation and analysis in semiconductors by STM” (invited) (PDF) |
| 3:55-4:30 p.m. | J. Zhao, CAS, Beijing: "Magnetic properties of (Ga,Mn)As films & related nano-wires with higher Curie temperature" (invited) (PDF) |
| 4:30-4:50 p.m. | N Rangaraju, J A Peters, B W Wessels, Northwestern U.: “Magnetoamplification in an InMnAs based bipolar magnetic junction transistor” |
| 4:50-5:10 p.m. | J. A. Peters, N. Rangaraju, C. Feeser, and B. W. Wessels Northwestern U.: “Spin-dependent transport in p-InMnSb/n-InSb magnetic diodes” |
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| Tuesday June 22 |
| Session: Spintronic with quantum Dots |
| 9:00-9:35 a.m. | D. G. Austing, NRC, Ottawa: “High bias hyperfine interaction mechanism for two weakly coupled vertical quantum dots” (invited).
(PowerPoint) |
| 9:35-10:10 a.m. | LX Zhang et al, UIUC and NWU: “Exchange engineering in quantum dots” (invited) (PowerPoint) |
| 10:10-10:30 a.m. | Coffee break |
| Session: Future trends |
| 10:30-10:55 a.m. | S. Wolfe, U. Virginia: “The Promise of Nano-magnetics and Spintronics for future Logic and Memory” (Presentation not available.) |
| 10:55-11:20 a.m. | Dmitriy Melnikov, Evgeny Katz and Vladimir Privman. Clarkson U., “Enzyme-based systems for information processing” (PowerPoint) |
| 11:20-11:45 a.m | D. Szumski, W. Schwarzacher, H. van Zalinge and R. Nichols, U. Liverpool: “Towards Single Molecule Spintronics” (PowerPoint) |
| 11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m. | Y. G. Semenov, J. M. Zavada, and K. W. Kim, NCSU: “Electron Spin Relaxation in Carbon Nanotubes”
(PowerPoint) |
| 12:10-12:30 p.m. | R. B. R. Adari, M. S. Murthy, S. Ganguly, and D. Saha I.T. Bombay: “Amplification of Optical Polarization in a Spin Laser”.
(PowerPoint) |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Lunch break |
| Session: Spin processes in semiconductors |
| 1:30-2:05 p.m. | J. Chang, MIT: "Electrical spin injection and electric field control of spin precession" (invited) (PDF) |
| 2:05-2:40 p.m | B. Jonker, NRL: "Spin transport in high and low spin-orbit semiconductors" (invited) (PDF) |
| 2:40 -3:15 p.m. | H. Dery, Rochester U: "The relation between the circular polarized luminescence and the electron spin polarization in silicon" (invited) (PowerPoint) |
| 3:15 -3:50 p.m. | C. Stanton, U. Florida: "Optically Probing Spin-Split Band Structures in Semiconductor Nanostructures" (invited) (PowerPoint) |
| 3:50-4:10 p.m. | Coffee break |
| Session: Spin in Quantum Point Contact/Transport |
| 4:10-4:45 p.m. | M. Cahay, Cincinnati: “All electric spintronics” (invited) (PowerPoint) |
| 4:45-5:10 p.m. | M. J. Iqbal, J. de Jong, E. J. Koop, C. H. van der Wal, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, U. Groningen, “Tunable quasi-localized states and Kondo physics in open quantum point contacts” (Presentation not available.) |
| 5:10-5:45 p.m. | M. K. Husain, C.H. de Groot , C Shen, T. Trypiniotis, K Y Lee, D R Leadley, G Bell, E. H. C. Parker, T. E. Whall, and C. H. W. Barnes, U. Southampton “Spin transport in germanium at room temperature” (invited) (PDF) |
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| Wednesday June 23 |
| Session: Magneto-Thermal Spin Transport |
| 8:30-9:05 a.m. | E. Saitoh, Tohoku U: "Spin Seebeck effect." (invited).
(PowerPoint) |
| 9:05-9:40 a.m. | Y. Pershin, U Sth Carolina: “Dynamical effects in semiconductor spintronics” (invited) (PowerPoint) |
| 9:40-10:05 a.m. | V. Vlaminck, O. Mosendz, J. E. Pearson,F. Y. Fradin, S. D. Bader, and A. Hoffmann, Argonne: “Spin Hall effect for Palladium measured via Spin Pumping”. (PowerPoint) |
| 10:05-10:25 a.m. | Coffee break |
| Session: Organic Spintronics |
| 10:25-11:00 a.m. | S. Bandyopadhyay, VCU: “The case for organic spintronics” (invited). (PowerPoint) |
| 11:00-11:25 a.m. | Bin Yan, Brynn M. Dooley, Steven E. Bowles, Mark Zsombor, Satyabrata Samanta and Natia L. Frank, U. Victoria, and U. Washington: “Spin-Delocalized Conjugated Alternating Copolymers: Purely Organic Magnetic Semiconductors for Organic Spintronics”. (Presentation not available.) |
| 11:25 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Minn-Tsong Lin, National Taiwan U.: “Organic Spin-Valves with Inelastic Tunneling Characteristics” (invited). (PDF) |
| 12:00-12:15 p.m. | Closing remarks |