Director of SPICE Sinova, JGU President Krausch and State Secretary Deufel – View the JGU press release.
Yesterday, Prof. Dr. Georg Krausch, the president of Johannes Gutenberg-Universität and Prof. Dr. Jairo Sinova, director of SPICE, inaugurated the Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center at the festive opening ceremony in the tradition-steeped hall of Atrium Maximum. After more than a year of getting settled and building up the Center, Sinova and his team now officially start tackling their mission. In his speech, Sinova defined that mission as the advancement of spin related materials science by globally connecting nature, cultures and people.
In collaboration with TRR 146, MAINZ and the Max Planck Institute for Polymere Research, SPICE hosts an introductory workshop on simulation methods for selected topics in soft and hard condensed matter: liquids, polymers, spintronic, and magnetic materials.
By plane:There are two airports at Frankfurt, where you possibly arrive.
Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is an international airport that is about 30 km to Mainz. From the airport you can take the frequent local train service (S-Bahn) S8 (at Platform 3) with final destination Wiesbaden (takes approx. 30 minutes) or the Intercity/Eurocity train (20 minutes). Please get off the train at Mainz Hauptbahnhof (Hbf).
Frankfurt-Hahn airport (HHN) in the Hunsrück region is around 90 kilometers away, where you can find Ryanair, SunExpress, and Wizz air flights. There is a bus shuttle (70 minutes) to Mainz.
By train: Please get off the train at Mainz Hauptbahnhof (Hbf). Timetables are available at the travel information service run by the RMV regional transport authority and Deutsche Bahn.
By bus / tram (about 20min.): After arriving at Mainz Hbf, please exit the station from the back entrance and head towards the bus / tram stop "Hauptbahnhof West". From there you can take the tram lines no. 51 / 53 / 59, or the bus lines no. 54 / 55 / 56 / 650 / 75.
If you arrive by S-Bahn holding an RMV ticket it is also valid for the local bus within Mainz. Otherwise you can get a ticket for 1,85€ at the driver. For further information visit the website of the MVG.
Do not exit at the stop "Universität" but continue until the next stop, "Friedrich-von-Pfeiffer-Weg". The University is on the left-hand side from the direction of traffic. Pass the street and continue to the right, past the high-rise building on the left after about 150 m and then turn left onto "Staudingerweg". After approx. 50m you will pass "Campus Döner" and the university canteen (Mensa) on your right-hand side. The Institute of Physics (Staudingerweg 7) is right after it.
Welcome to the spintronics and nanoelectronics research group of Jairo Sinova. As a condensed matter theory group we are interested in physical phenomena of many body systems in which the behaviour of the collective system is quite unique and different from the behaviour of its individual components. Condensed matter physics is a vast field of physics which provides endless opportunities. Our group has focused over the past few years on the subfield of spintronics and mesoscopic electronic transport. These fields study the effects coupling the spin and charge degrees of freedom of the electron have on bulk properties of materials as well as transport and optical phenomena. Some of our main contributions to this field are related to spin Hall effects and diluted magnetic semiconductor physics. Despite this specialisation, it is our philosophy not to narrow our focus to our own comfort zone in order to stay attentive to novel and unforeseen connections to other points of views and topics.
Read more about Jairo Sinova's biography, his visions for the SPICE Center and why to him, Science Teamwork is like Dancing a Tango.
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