Topics and Subtopics
| TOPIC 1 |
Strongly Correlated Electron System (SCES) (including Superconductivity / Multiferroics)
Subtopics
- Ferroics and Multiferroics
- Superconductivity and magnetism, including exotic superconductivity
- Topological Insulators and metal-insulators transitions
- Heavy Fermion Physics including Valence and charge fluctuations
- Quantum magnetism and physics of frustration
- Non-Fermi Liquids and Quantum criticality
- Kondo physics in bulk materials and nanoscale structures
- Theory of Strongly Correlated Matter
- New Developments
| TOPIC 2 |
Spin Systems & Magnetic Structures
Subtopics
- Low-dimensional. Quantum Spin-Hall effect
- Molecular Magnetism
- Highly frustrated magnetism
- Spin-orbit and spin-lattice couplings
- Magnetism theory & simulation of quantum and classical systems
- Electronic Structure. Itinerant-electron magnetism. Half-metals. Insulators
- Magnetic phase transitions and magnetic interactions
- Magnetic semiconductors and Diluted magnets
- Actinides & Lanthanides
- Advanced methods of spin structure determination
| TOPIC 3 |
Spin electronics and transport & magnetization dynamics and micromagnetics
Subtopics
- Metal spintronics
- Semiconductor spintronics
- Organic spintronics. Carbon-based spintronics
- Spin transfer torque and spin transfer oscillators
- Domain wall motion
- Electric field effect on magnetic systems
- Spin caloritronics
- Fast and ultrafast magnetization dynamics
- Spinwave dynamics and magnonics
- Vortex and skyrmion dynamics
| TOPIC 4 |
Magnetism of nanoscale systems: thin films, nanostructures and nanoparticles
Subtopics
- Magnetic thin films and multilayers
- Thin film nanostructures
- Magnetic nanoparticles
- Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy materials
- Surface and interface effects
- Exchange bias and exchange springs
- Theory and modeling
- Hybrid nanostructures
- Arrays of magnetic nanostructures
- Magnetic nanodots, nanowires and nanotubes
- Manetophotonics and magnetoplasmonics
| TOPIC 5 |
Magnetic Materials and Technologies for: energy, information & life
Subtopics
Soft and Hard magnetic materials
Nanocrystalline & amorphous materials soft magnets
Ferrites, Garnets and oxide materials
Rare-earth hard magnetic materials
Intermetallic & other hard magnets
Nanostructured and composite hard magnetic materials
Coercivity Mechanisms
Materials for Energy applications
Applications of high performance soft and hard materials
Energy harvesting materials
Shape memory alloys
Magnetocaloric materials and magnetic refrigeration
Magnetic Devices and Novel materials
Magnetostrictive devices
Magnetic sensors
Microwave materials and devices
Novel magnetic materials & Devices
Novel spintronic materials and devices
Magnetic information storage, memories and computation
Advanced and bit-patterned recording media
Energy assisted magnetic recording
Magnetoresistive materials for novel read sensors
Magnetic random access memories
Magnetic information processing and logics
Applied magnetism of organic compounds and Biomedical applications
Magnetism in macromolecules and polymers
Magnetic nanoparticles: drug delivery image enhancement and magnetic hyperthermia
Magnetism in biological media, magnetic effects and biomedicine applications
Magnetic transducers and field sensors in biomedicine
Measuring techniques and instrumentation
Magnetometry at the nano-scale
Magnetic microscopies, scanning probes
Magnetism & superconductivity by large facilities (neutron, synchrotron)
Instrumentation and interdisciplinary technologies
