International Workshop on X-Ray spectroscopy of Magnetic Solids (XRMS10), 10th & 11th June 2010, Oxfordshire, UK.
Day 1. Thursday 10th June
10:00 Registration (Diamond House Atrium)
10:30 Coffee (Diamond House Atrium)
11:00 Welcome
Session 1. Novel Materials
Chair: TBA
11:05 Nick Brookes (Invited)
ESRF, Grenoble, France
Recent developments in soft x-ray magnetic spectroscopy
11:45 Urs Staub (Invited)
SLS, PSI, Switzerland
Soft x-ray resonant scattering of magneto-electric materials
12:25 R.A. de Souza
SLS, PSI, Switzerland
Resolving the origin of the low temperature phase transition TX in 1-dimensional BaVS3
12:45 Conference photograph
12:45-14:00 Buffet lunch (Diamond House Atrium)
Session 2. Spin Dynamics (Pickavance Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Prof. Rob Hicken (Exeter)
14:00 Dario Arena
NSLS, Brookhaven National Lab, US
X-ray detected ferromagnetic resonance
14:40 Pietro Gambardella (Invited)
ICREA & ICN-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
X-ray ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy: a double resonance technique and its application to the study of time-invariant spin and orbital moment precession
15:20 M.W. Butchers
Warwick, UK
Spin density in UCoGe
15:40-16:10 Coffee/tea break (Diamond House Atrium)
Session 3. Spectroscopy: Experiment and Theory (Pickavance Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Dr. Jan Minar (Munich)
16:10 Hans-Joachim Elmers (Invited)
Mainz, Germany
X-ray spectroscopic investigations of Heusler alloys
16:50 Fabiana Da Pieve
Louvain, Belgium
Spin polarized dichroism and local magnetic moments from resonant photoemission: a band picture
17:10 Oana Bunau
Institut Néel, CNRS Grenoble, France
X-ray Absorption Spectyroscopies Beyond the Monoelectronic Approach
17:30 Alessandro Mirone
ESRF, Grenoble, France
Spectroscopy of LaxSr2-xMnO4 : cluster many-body calculations and electronic properties study of related compounds
17:50-19:00 Poster session, (Atrium)
19:00 Conference dinner R22 Restaurant)
Announcement of poster prize
Voting for venue of next XRMS meeting
Day 2. Friday 11th June 2010
Session 4. Inelastic Scattering (Pickavance Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Prof. Steve Collins (DLS)
9:00 Lucio Braicovich (Invited)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
High resolution RIXS in strongly correlated systems: results and perspectives
9:40 Maurits Haverkort (Invited)
MPI Stuttgart, Germany
Theory of Resonant Inelastic and Elastic X-ray Scattering by Magnetic Excitations and Ordering
10:20 Amélie Juhin
Utrecht, Netherlands
Strong K-edge Magnetic Circular Dichroism detected by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
Session 5. Exciting new materials (Pickavance Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Dr. Neil Telling (ISTM, Keele)
11:10 Victoria Coker (Invited)
SEAES, Manchester, UK
Bioproduction of magnetic nanoparticles: environmental route to new materials
11:50 Jean-Louis Gallani
IPCMS, Strasbourg, France
Measuring Single Molecule Magnets with XMCD
12:10 M.A. de Vries
Leeds, UK
An x-ray spectroscopy study to determine the local Hamiltonian in a model antiferromagnet, the kagome system iron jarosite
12:45-14:00 Buffet lunch
Optional tours of Diamond synchrotron & beamlines in small groups
Session 6. Dynamics and Magnetization (Pickavance Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Prof. Peter de Groot (Southampton)
14:00 Christoph Quitmann (Invited)
SLS, PSI, Switzerland
Dynamics of mesoscopic magnetic objects
14:40 Bartel Van Waeyenberge (Invited)
Gent, Belgium
X-ray imaging of magnetic vortex dynamics
15:20 Alexey N. Dobrynin
Diamond Light Source, UK
Ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic net exchange coupling transition in sputtered Co/CoO bilayers
15:40-16:10 Coffee/tea break
Session 7. Spectroscopy - Experiments (Pickavance Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Dr. Kevin Edmonds (Nottingham)
16:10 Olivier Fruchart (Invited)
Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, France
XMCD-PEEM monitoring of the field-induced controlled switching of Neel caps in magnetic flux-closure dots
16:50 L. Joly
IPCMS, Strasbourg, France
Kondo effect on Fe0.5Cu99.5 studied by XMCD
17:10 Francesco Maccherozzi
Diamond, UK
Proximity effects across Fe/(Ga,Mn)As interfaces revealed by site selective X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
17:30 A. Verna
TASC, Trieste, Italy
Temperature dependence of the magnetization depth profile at manganite/titanate interface probed by X-ray resonant magnetic scattering
17:50 Closing remarks.
Invited speakers (confirmed)
Dario Arena (Brookhaven National Lab, US)
Lucio Braicovich (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Nick Brookes (ESRF, Grenoble, France)
Victoria Coker (SEAES, Manchester, UK)
Hans-Joachim Elmers (Mainz, Germany)
Olivier Fruchart (Neel Institut, Grenoble, France)
Pietro Gambardella (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain)
Maurits Haverkort (MPI Stuttgart, Germany)
Christoph Quitmann (SLS, Switzerland)
Urs Staub (SLS, Switzerland)
Bartel Van Waeyenberge (Gent, Belgium)
Programme Outline
Thursday 10th June 2010
10.00 Registration
11:00 Welcome and start scientific programme
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday 11th June 2010
09.00 Start scientific programme
18:15 End of programme