This colloquium is jointly held with PASPS (Physics and Applications of Spin-related Phenomena in Semiconductors). The participants are able to attend both of meetings with one common registration. This will provide an opportunity where participants can present and discuss their recent works. The participation of young scientists in ICMFS2006 is most welcome.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
2. Magnetic storage/memory
3. Magnetization reversal and fast dynamics
4. Spin injection and spin transfer torque
5. Magnetic thin films and multilayers
6. High spin polarization materials
7. Hard and soft magnetic materials
8. Magneto-optics
9. Characterization techniques for thin films and surfaces
10. Exchange coupling
11. Micro- and nanopatterned magnetic structures
12. Mircomagnetic modeling
| J. M. Slaughter (USA) | Magnetic materials for MRAM technology |
| D. Djayaprawira (Japan) | Recent progress in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions with low resistance and high magnetoresistance |
| H. Fukuzawa (Japan) | CPP-GMR films with a current-confined-path nano-oxides layer (CPP-NOL) |
| S. Mao (USA) | TMR recording heads for next generation hard disc drives |
| T. Ono (Japan) | Current driven domain wall motion |
| M. Kläui (Germany) | Interactions between domain walls and spin polarized currents |
| D. Ravelosona (France) | Domain wall creation in nanostructures driven by a spin-polarized current |
| Y. Nakatani (Japan) | Vortex pinning in nanostripes : relation to spin polarized current induced domain wall motion |
| G. Tatara (Japan) | Threshold of current-driven domain wall motion (theory) |
| S. E. Barnes (USA) | Angular momentum transfer, Berry phase motive forces and enviromental coupling for magnetic domain walls |
| J. Slonczewski (USA) | The role of spin-polarized current in exchange coupling between magnetic layers@ |
| R. J. Hicken (UK) | Anisotropy and coherence of precessional dynamics in nanoscale magnetic elements |
| B. Hillebrands (Germany) | Brillouin light scattering from small magnetic elements |
| W. Kleemann (Germany) | Magneto electric control of exchange bias |
| M. Bode (Germany) | Imaging non-collinear spin structures with spin-polarized STM |
| V. Novosad (USA) | Dynamics of geometrically-confined magnetic vortices |
| S. Parkin (USA) | Magnetic racetrack memory |
| Y. Suzuki (Japan) | Spin-torque diode as a new spintronics device |
| K. Inomata (Japan) | Tunnel magnetoresistance of magnetic tunnel junctions with half metallic ferromagnets |
| Y. Huai (USA) | Spin transfer switching and spin polarization in magnetic tunnel junctions |
| J. Hayakawa (Japan) | Current-induced magnetization switching in MTJs using an MgO barrier and various ferromagnetic electrodes |
| U. Ebels (France) | Thermally assisted magnetic memories |
| H. Itoh (Japan) | Theory of spin dependent tunneling in magnetic tunnel junctions |
| B. van Wees (The Netherlands) | Separating spin and charge transport in single wall carbon nanotubes |
Poster sessions are scheduled from 13:30 to 15:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Authors are encouraged to post their posters early in the morning. One or more registered Conference participants (the author or his/her representative) must be present at the poster for a substantial part of the session. Display boards about 1.2 m wide by 1.8 m high will be provided for poster presentations. The title, authors, and affiliation should be prominently displayed. Material to fix the posters will be provided by the organization.
The Organizing Committee will select referees to decide on the suitability of the paper for presentation and will communicate by May 1, 2006 on acceptance. Abstracts of all the accepted contributions will be published in an Abstract Booklet, which will be given to each participant at the Colloquium.
| Advance registration (before June 1, 2006) |
JPY 30,000
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| On-site registration |
JPY 35,000
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| Students |
JPY 15,000
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| Accompanying person |
JPY 5,000
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- admission to all scientific sessions (also for PASPS)
- conference handbook (Program and Abstracts)
- proceedings
- welcome party
- coffee (tea) break
You can pick up your registration materials or register on-site at the Conference Registration Desks. The Conference Registration Desks will be open on Monday, August 14, 2006 16:00 ~ 19:00. From August 15 to August 18, the desks will be open in the daytime.
Banquet fee
| Regular banquet fee |
JPY 8,000
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| Accompanying person |
JPY 5,000
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| Students |
JPY 5,000
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The banquet will be held in the evening at August 16 at the Sendai City Museum, which is in the vicinity of the conference site. The museum contains a lot of art and craft materials and convey the history and culture of Sendai during the Edo period. The participants can enjoy looking at the materials and walk around the beautiful garden. The ticket fee is included in the banquet fee.
Method of Registration
Please fill in the following form (either pdf or Word format), and send it to the Official Agent, JTB, (not to ICMFS local office). To get the reduced rate for students, they are required to send a copy of their student ID card to JTB. Detailed information can be found in the forms below.
Sendai has a long history for research of magnetism. Institute for Materials Research, the first institute for the research of magnetism in Japan, was established in Tohoku University in 1922. The first director of this institute was Prof. Kotaro Honda, who was well known as an inventor of KS magnet. After this great success, a variety of functional magnetic materials were developed from this University and companies around Sendai. This city developed to be a Center of Excellence (COE) in the world for both basic and applied research in magnetic materials nowadays. It would be a great pleasure that we have the opportunity to discuss the future of "Spin-electronics" in Sendai.
The conference will be held at the Sendai International Center, which is near the Aoba castle and Tohoku University campus.
| December 5, 2005 | Call for papers |
| March 1, 2006 | Deadline for abstract submission |
| May 1, 2006 | Notification about abstract acceptance |
| June 1, 2006 | Deadline for advanced registration |
| R. Atkinson (Ireland) | S. Bader (USA) | M. N. Baibich (Brazil) |
| J. A. C. Bland (UK) | P. Bruno (Germany) | J. N. Chapman (UK) |
| C. Chappert (France) | W. J. M. de Jonge (Netherlands) | B. Heinrich (Canada) |
| X. F. Jin (China) | J. Kirschner (Germany) | E. Kisker (Germany) |
| C. Lodder (Netherlands) | S. Maekawa (Japan, Vice-chairperson) | G. Mathon (UK) |
| J. Miltat (France, Chairperson) | T. Miyazaki (Japan) | H. Ohno (Japan) |
| S. S. P. Parkin (USA) | D. T. Pierce (USA) | S. Prasad (India) |
| S.C. Shin (Korea) | T. Shinjo (Japan) | H. Szymczak (Poland) |
| M. Takahashi (Japan) | A. Vedyayev (Russia) | S. Visnovsky (Czech) |
19th International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces
Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Aoba-yama 6-6-05, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
E-mail : icmfs2006@mlab.apph.tohoku.ac.jp
Phone : +81-22-795-7949
Fax : +81-22-795-7947