Programme

Monday 4 April


09:00	Registration First Floor, Drawing room
	Strain effects on magnetism The Hadfield Hall Welcome and Chair: Dan Allwood, University of Sheffield	Correlated Electrons I The Old Banqueting Hall Welcome: Gonzalo Vallejo Fernandez, University of York Chair: Christy Kinane, STFC
10:00	IEEE Distinguished Lecture: Magnetics + mechanics + nanoscale = electromagnetics future Greg Carman, University of California at Los Angeles, USA	Using Hall probe imaging to study the first-order magnetic phase transitions in magnetocaloric La(Fe,Si)₁₃ and Heusler alloys Edmund Lovell, Imperial College London, UK
10:15		Coexistence of magnetic order and valence fluctuations in a novel Kondo lattice system Ce2Rh3Sn5 Monika Gamza, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire, UK
10:30	Manipulating domain walls with surface acoustic waves T J Hayward - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UK	Field induced incommensurate magnetic structure in Holmium Tetraboride Daniel Brunt, The University of Warwick, UK
10:45	Tuning domain wall creep velocity with piezoelectric strain: the effect of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction Philippa Shepley, University of Leeds, UK	Magnetocalorics for magnetic refrigeration – prospects Lesley Cohen, Imperial College London, UK
11:00	Manipulating the chirality of vortex domain walls with mechanical strain Andrew Rushforth University of Nottingham, UK	Tuning phase transitions and the magnetocaloric effect of La(Fe,Si)13 alloys Precious Shamba, University of Sheffield, UK
11:15	Refreshment break The Main Hall
	Spin excitations and nano-oscillators The Hadfield Hall Chair: Bryan Hickey, University of Leeds	Induced magnetism & organic semiconductors The Old Banqueting Hall Chair: Tom Thomson, University of Manchester, UK
11:45	Super-harmonic injection locking of a nano-contact spin-torque vortex oscillator Paul Keatley, University of Exeter, UK	(Invited) Emergent magnetism at metallo-molecular interfaces Oscar Cespedes, University of Leeds, UK
12:00	Dynamic processes in spin Hall nano-oscillators driven by AC and DC currents Tim Spicer, University of Exeter, UK
12:15	Interface coupling of spin waves in permalloy/Ru/permalloy multilayer nanowires: ferromagnetic resonance and theory Michael Cottam, University of Western Ontario, Canada	2D-ferrimagnetic ordering in a chessboard-like molecular layer on Au(111) Jan Nowakowski, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
12:30	Switching single-atom spin excitations on and off Benjamin Bryant, Radboud University, Netherlands	Temporal mapping of excitonic wavefunctions with carbon specificity Alan Drew, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
12:45	Magneto-optical coupling in whispering gallery mode resonators James Haigh, Hitachi Cambridge Labs, UK	The magnetic field dependent crossover between hyperfine and spin-orbit interactions in organic semiconductors Ke Wang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
13:00	Exhibition and Lunch The Main Hall
	Thin films and nanomagnetism The Hadfield Hall Chair: Tom Hayward, University of Sheffield	Computational I The Old Banqueting Hall Chair: Julie Staunton, University of Warwick
14:30	Controlled Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Slonczewski-like Torque in Epitaxial Trilayers of Pt/Co/Pt_1-xAu_x Kowsar Shahbazi, University of Leeds, UK	(Invited) Multiscale modelling of bloch point dynamics in magnetic nanowires Riccardo Hertel, University of Strasbourg, France
14:45	Tuning the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction via interface engineering in epitaxial Co/Pt Adam Wells, University of Leeds, UK
15:00	Current-induced magnetization reversal in Pt/Co/Pt multilayers using spin-orbit torques Richard Rowan-Robinson, Durham University, UK	Control of magnetic vortex position in a patterned nanoscale ferromagnetic disc via applied magnetic field pulses Angus Laurenson, University of Exeter, UK
15:15	Temperature dependence of magnetic dead layer thicknesses in ferromagnetic thin-films Mustafa Tokac, Durham University, UK	Monopole dynamics following thermal quenches in spin ice Marianne Haroche, University of Cambridge, UK
15:30	The thermal and spin diffusion properties of Py/Ag/Py lateral spin valves Georgios Stefanou, University of Leeds, UK	Multi-scale modelling of magnetisation reversal induced by spin transfer torque Matthew Ellis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
15:45	Influence of damping on magnetization reversal in edge modulated NiFe/Pt nanowires Jeovani Brandao, Durham University, UK	Complex spin configurations in hybrid magnetic multilayer structures due to mutual spin imprinting for multi-functional magneto-logic devices Gino Hrkac, University of Exeter, UK
16:00	Refreshment break The Main Hall
16:30	The Hadfield Hall Chair: Rob Hicken, University of Exeter (Plenary) From South-Pointing Chariot to Pure Spin Current, the Never-Ending Saga of Magnetism Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University, USA
17:30	Exhibition, poster session and bierstube The Main Hall
19:30	Conference Dinner The Cathedral