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29.09.2015 – SPICE / INSPIRE Oktoberfest

Thanks to an initiative of Denise and the help of our universally talented student assistant and Bavaria enthusiast Alex, SPICE and the INSPIRE group hosted their own Oktoberfest and likely the first Oktoberfest in the history of Spintronics. From the traditional Oktoberfest-Bier, an especially tasty brew that is only available during the Oktoberfest season to the appropriate Bavarian music and Weißwurst (white sausage), all the essentials had been organised. Thus it is not surprising that, even if neither binge drinking nor any dancing on the tables were observed (as customary at the original event), the ambiance was great. In the midst of a public which was just as international as the one in Munich, our guest Barry Zink had the opportunity to experience some German local colour.

oktober-three — Apart from Barry Zink, Gerd Passler and Friedrich Kayser were our special guests.

26.08.2015 – Joint Group Meeting with Kläui Lab

INSPIRE and the Kläui Lab are now having monthly meetings to intensify the exchange between the theorists and experimentalists of the institute bringing together the two perspectives on nanoelectronic phenomena in order to generate synergies and facilitate intensified future collaborations.
The talks that were held at this month's joint meeting of the INSPIRE Group and the Kläui Lab were:

Kai Litzius: Progress and Problems – Skyrmions and their Dynamics in Thin Magnetic Layers

Jacob Gailes: Ab-initio calculations of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and transport in

Exotic Magnetic Systems

21.07.2015 – Guest Lecture by Joo-Von Kim

We thank Joo-Von Kim from Paris (Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale CNRS, Université Paris Sud) for being our guest and giving a lecture about Magnetization dynamics in chiral spin textures: Spin wave channelling and skyrmion oscillations

14.07.2015 – Manuel Brando: Metallic Quantum Ferromagnets

We thank Manuel Brando from the max-Plack-Institute in Dresden for being our guest and giving a lecture about Metallic Quantum Ferromagnets.

07.07.2015 – Guest Lectures by Ewelina Hankiewicz and Kjetil M. D. Hals

Hankiewizs
We thank Ewelina Hankiewicz from the University of Würzburg and Kjetil M. D. Hals from Niels Bohr Institute Copenhague for being our guests and enriching our seminar program with their lectures on Transport in hybrid structures of topological insulators and in topological superconductors: In the Search of Majorana Fermions and the Phenomenology of Current-Induced Spin-Orbit Torques.

29.06.2015 – SPICE Workshop: Bad Metals in Motts Systems

From June 29 to July 2, the second official SPICE Workshop took place in Schloß Waldthausen. An international group of 51 participants from different disciplines came together in the scenic castle to share their expertise on a new class of materials known as bad metals and its behavior in Mott Systems. This fundamental emergent physics topic is now being applied in the design and fabrication of new devices such as resistance-switching devices, novel power transistors, as well as “synaptic” devices that mimic the function of the neuron, to name just a few of the possibilities. Yet, The so-called “Bad-metal” behavior phenomenon is often viewed as one of the key unresolved signatures of strong correlation physics. Thirty-two invited speakers from different European countries, Japan, the USA, China, India and Brasil contributed their perspectives on the fundamental issues associated with the new type of phase transition observed in Bad Metals, and its many consequences for material science and technology. Furthermore, 19 poster presentations and four tutorials were given.

23.06.2015 – Olga Petrova: Magnetic monopoles in quantum spin ice

On June, 23, we had the great pleasure to welcome Olga Petrova from the Max Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. She gave a lecture on Magnetic monopoles in quantum spin ice.

18.06.2015 – INSPIRE Group welcomes Kei Yamamoto

We are very happy to have Dr. Kei Yamamoto from Kobe University as a visiting Postdoc. Kei has a cosmology and general relativity background and is currently working on his first project in the area of the spin Hall Effect. At the INSPIRE Group, Kei wants to intensify his research about condensed matter physics and antiferromagnets in particular. He is looking forward to making use of his mathematical skills in this new field at the interface between physics and mathematics.

16.06.2015 – Markus Garst: Magnon-skyrmion scattering in chiral magnets

We are happy to welcome Markus Garst from the University of Cologne as out guest. He will contribute a lecture about Magnon-skyrmion scattering in chiral magnets to our seminar program.

06.06.2015 – Artem Abanov joins the Inspire Group

Dr. Artem Abanov from Texas A&M University will be supporting our group with his research on Spintronics and strongly correlated systems. Following a number of collaborations with Jairo Sinova and other current and former members of the Sinova Group like Shayan Hemmatiyan, Yi Liu and Oleg Tretiakov as well as a shorter visit last summer, Artem will now come for a longer visit and work with us on site in Mainz.