Programme

Please note that the programme is subject to change.

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Monday 30 March


09:00	Registration and refreshments Location: Parkinson Court
	Session 1: Spin currents Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre Chair: Bryan Hickey	Session 2: Spin ice Location: Michael Sadler Building, Room LG10 Chair: Claudio Castelnovo
09:50	Welcome	Welcome
10:00	Magnetic properties of high quality nanometer thick sputtered yttrium iron garnet films Arpita Mitra, University of Leeds, UK	(invited) Delicate magnetic ground states: the local view Stephen J Blundell, University of Oxford, UK
10:15	Electric valley control of the spin-hall effect in GaAs Hidekazu Kurebayashi, University College London, UK
10:30	Spin pumping in ferromagnet - topological insulator heterostructures Alexander Baker, University of Oxford, UK	The AC Wien effect and non-linear non-equilibrium susceptibility in spin ice Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
10:45	Spin relaxation through magnetic scattering in Cu/Py lateral spin valves Joseph T Batley, University of Leeds, UK	Critical dynamics and finite-time scaling in spin ice systems James Hamp, University of Cambridge, UK
11:00	Femtosecond optical pump-probe study of the spin Seebeck effect within a YIG/Cu/Ni₈₁Fe₁₉ trilayer Haidar Mohamad, University of Exeter, UK	A quantum Kasteleyn transition in a spin-ice-like model Christopher Andrew Hooley, University of St Andrews, UK
11:15	Refreshments, exhibition and posters Location: Parkinson Court
	Session 3: Vortices Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre Chair: Damian McGrouther	Session 4: Ab initio, bio and organic magnetism Location: Michael Sadler Building, Room LG10 Chair: Gonzalo Vallejo Fernandez
11:45	(invited) 35 years of magnetic heterostructures Ivan K Schuller, University of California, San Diego, USA (IEEE Distinguished Lecturer)	First-principles investigation of magnetism in lanthanide compounds Leon Petit, Daresbury Laboratory - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
12:00		Compositional tuning of the magnetic anisotropy of Ni₂MnGa-based compounds Rudra Banerjee, University of Warwick, UK
12:15	Magnetic switching and structure in nanoscale FePd Circular Islands David Greving, University of Warwick, UK	Quasi-one dimensional magnetic chain in Cu-guanidinuim formate studied by μSR Shuo Han, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
12:30	Strain induced vortex core switching in planar magnetostrictive nanostructures Stuart A Cavill, University of York, UK	The magnetic ground state of two isostructual polymeric quantum magnets, [Cu(HF₂)(pyrazine)]SbF₆ and [Co(HF₂)(pyrazine)]SbF₆, investigated with neutron diffraction Jamie Brambleby, University of Warwick, UK
12:45	Magnetic vortex states in highly anisotropic nanoislands Jose M Porro Azpiazu, ISIS - Science and Technology Facilities Council, 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	Lunch, exhibition and posters Location: Parkinson Court
	Session 5: Spin torque and spin-orbit effects Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre Chair: Robert Hicken	Session 6: Superconductors Location: Michael Sadler Building, Room LG10 Chair: Stephen Blundell
14:00	Universal magnetic Hall circuit based on paired spin heterostructures Shilei Zhang, University of Oxford, UK	(invited) Magnetic vortices: a probe of the superconducting state Elizabeth Blackburn, University of Birmingham, UK
14:15	Spin orbit torques in epitaxial MnSi Chiara Ciccarelli, University of Cambridge, UK
14:30	Magneto-optical observation of mutual phase-locking in a pair of spin-torque vortex oscillators Paul S Keatley, University of Exeter, UK	Charge-stripe Magnetic Interactions of the checkerboard charge order state Paul G Freeman, University of Central Lancashire, UK
14:45	Asymmetry in anomalous Hall effect measurements of magnetic dots Rhys A Griffiths, University of Manchester, UK	Inducing magnetization at a non-magnetic interface by superconducting triplet correlations Machiel G Flokstra, University of St. Andrews, UK
15:00	Room-temperature spin-orbit torque and AMR in NiMnSb Laurel Anderson, University of Cambridge, UK	Evidence of spin triplet superconductivity in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures Christy J Kinane, ISIS - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
15:15	Refreshment break and poster session Location: Parkinson Court
16:00	(invited) Updates and opportunities from EPSRC James Dracott, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics - EPSRC, UK Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre
	Session 7: Magnetism and structure Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre Chair: Solveig Felton	Session 8: Skyrmions and topological effects Location: Michael Sadler Building, Room LG10 Chair: Aidan Hindmarch
16:15	Understanding the proximity induced magnetism in Pt using interface engineering through the addition of heavy metal interlayers Richard M Rowan-Robinson, Durham University, UK	Helical magnetic structure in Fe_1-xCo_xGe epilayers Charles S Spencer, University of Leeds, UK
16:30	Motion of the antiferromagneic-ferromagnetic interface in a dopant-graded FeRh thin film Timothy Charlton, ISIS - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK	Magnetic Cr doping of Bi₂Se₃: Evidence for divalent Cr from x-ray spectroscopy Liam Collins-McIntyre, University of Oxford, UK
16:45	Tunable response in α´-FeRh films Laura H Lewis, Northeastern University, USA	Transverse field muon-spin rotation signature of the skyrmion lattice phase in Cu₂OSeO₃ Robert C Williams, Durham University, UK
17:00	Understanding the YIG/Pt Interface Amy L Westerman, University of Leeds, UK	Nanometer resolution imaging of Helical and Skyrmion states in FeGe Damien McGrouther, University of Glasgow, UK

17:15	IOP Magnetism Group AGM Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre
17:45	(plenary) Racetrack Memory: Highly efficient current induced domain wall motion in synthetic antiferromagnetic racetracks Stuart S P Parkin, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Location: Michael Sadler Building, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre
18:45	End of day one

19:30	Arrive for conference dinner Location: Leeds Marriott Hotel, 4 Trevelyan Square, Board Lane, Leeds, LS1 6ET
20:00	Conference dinner Location: Leeds Marriott Hotel, 4 Trevelyan Square, Board Lane, Leeds, LS1 6ET Sponsored by Oxford Instruments