Workshop Program

	Sunday, November 2
18:00 - 20:00	Registration
19:00 -	Reception with food and beverages

	Monday, November 3
09:00 - 09:20	Opening by Roderich Moessner and the Organizers
09:20 - 10:00	Nathaniel Stern
	Imaging electrical spin generation and the spin Hall effect in semiconductors
10:00 - 10:40	Hartmut Buhmann
	Spin Hall effects in HgTe quantum well structures
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 - 11:50	Xiaofeng Jin
	Anomalous Hall effect in ultrathin Fe films
11:50 - 12:30	Jairo Sinova
	Anomalous Hall transport in spin-orbit coupled systems: Merging Keldysh,
	Kubo and Boltzmann approaches
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:40	Balazs L. Gyorffy
	Spin-currents and charge-currents induced torques in relativistic quantum
	mechanics
14:40 - 15:20	Ilja Turek
	Ballistic torkances in non-collinear spin valves
15:20 - 16:00	Patrick Bruno
	Hall effects, generalized Einstein relation, and Berry phase
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	CCMS08-Colloqium
	Qian Niu
	Berry phase effects on spin and charge transport
18:00	Supper

	Tuesday, November 4
09:00 - 09:40	Hubert Ebert
	A first-principle description of the TAMR in semiconductor/ferromagent
	heterostructures
09:40 - 10:20	Christian Heiliger
	Bias dependence of spin transfer torque in MgO based tunnel junctions:
	Ab initio calculations
10:20	Group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Csaba Józsa
	Spin injection and transport phenomena in graphene
11:40 - 12:20	Mikhail Katsnelson
	Defects in graphene: Electronic structure, magnetism, scattering mechanisms
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Poster Session I
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40	Steven G. Louie
	Computational study of the electronic, magnetic, transport and optical properties
	of carbon nanostructures
16:40 - 17:20	Risto Nieminen
	Defect-associated magnetism in nanostructured carbon
17:20 - 18:00	Paul Kelly
	Graphene and graphite as perfect spin filters
18:00	Supper

	Wednesday, November 5
09:00 - 09:40	Walter Temmerman
	Disordered Local Moment Picture of Strongly Correlated 3d and 4f systems
09:40 - 10:20	Thomas Schulthess
	Intricacies of electronic structure calculations in cuprates and other
	strongly correlated electron systems
10:20 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Marin Alexe
	Controlling ferromagnetism with an electric field
11:40 - 12:20	Silvia Picozzi
	Multiferroic manganites
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Poster Session II
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40	Claude Ederer
	Toroidal moments and magneto-electric coupling: The case of BiFe03 versus FeTi03
16:40 - 17:20	Vincent Garcia
	Intrinsic and artificial multiferroic tunnel junctions for spintronics
17:20 - 18:00	Ponniah Ravindran
	Giant magnetoelectric effect from density functional calculations
18:30	Leaving for the conference dinner in the ``Ballhaus Watzke''

	Thursday, November 6
09:00 - 09:40	Wulf Wulfhekel
	Inelastic tunneling spectroscopy as a tool to study magnetic excitations
09:40 - 10:20	Stefan Blügel
	Homochiral magnetic structures at surfaces
10:20 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Lars Nordström
	Spin dynamics; from a fine to coarse spatial resolution
11:40 - 12:20	Erio Tosatti
	Magnetic phenomena, spin orbit effects, and electron transport in nanowire contacts,
	particularly in Platinum
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00	Leaving for the guided city tour and the visit of Panometer Dresden
19:00	Supper

	Friday, November 7
09:00 - 09:40	Alexander Lichtenstein
	Electronic structure and magnetism of correlated materials
09:40 - 10:20	Biplab Sanyal
	First principles theory of diluted magnetic semiconductors
10:20 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40	Kazunori Sato
	Control of spinodal decomposition in dilute magnetic semiconductors and computational
	materials design for semiconductor spintronics
11:40 - 12:20	Kathrin Dörr
	Reversible strain experiments on strongly correlated oxide films
12:20 - 12:30	Closing
12:30	Lunch

Last updated: October 16, 2008