Topological Spintronic Devices and Beyond

Program

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Thursday, May 12th
7:15 AM	Check-In - Light refreshments provided.
7:40 AM	Welcoming Remarks
8:00 AM	Keynote Speaker Albert Fert, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS-Thales Conversion between spin and charge currents by Rashba or Topological Insulator interfaces and perspective for low power spintronic devices VIEW PRESENTATION
8:45 AM	Ian Young, Intel Corp. Charge Mediated Nonvolatile Spintronic Logic
9:15 AM	Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins University Spin-orbital torque switching of ferromagnetic layer with PMA via SmB₆ thin films VIEW PRESENTATION
9:45 AM	Nitin Samarth, Penn State University Topological Spintronics: Controlling and Manipulating Spins Using Helical Dirac Fermions
10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:45 AM	Michael Flatté, University of Iowa Voltage-Driven Magnetization Control In Topological Insulator/Magnetic Insulator Heterostructures
11:15 AM	Allan H. MacDonald, University of Texas at Austin Theory of Spin-Orbit Torques in Topological Insulator DMSs VIEW PRESENTATION
11:45 AM	Branislav Nikolic, University of Delaware Anatomy of spin-orbit torques in topological-insulator/ferromagnet heterostructures VIEW PRESENTATION
12:15 PM	Lunch Break. Lunch is on your own.
1:30 PM	Supriyo Datta, Purdue University A Different Perspective on Topological Insulators / Rashba Conductors Inspired by Mesoscopic Physics VIEW PRESENTATION
2:00 PM	Jian-Ping Wang, University of Minnesota Room Temperature Topological Insulator Spintronic Devices: Write and Read Function Design and Implementation
2:30 PM	Yuki Shiomi, Tohoku University Spin-Electricity Conversion Induced by Spin Injection into Topological Insulators
3:00 PM	Hyunsoo Yang, National University of Singapore Spin dynamics in Bi₂Se₃ / ferromagnet heterostructures VIEW PRESENTATION
3:30 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM	Vlad Pribiag, University of Minnesota Towards Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Modes in a 2D Topological Insulator and their Potential for Quantum Computation
4:30 PM	Yong Chen, Purdue University Electrically controlled spin polarization in topological insulators
5:00 PM	Saroj Prasad Dash, Chalmers University of Technology Spintronics with Topological-Insulator Heterostructures VIEW PRESENTATION
5:30 PM	Andre Mkhoyan, University of Minnesota Understanding atomic structure of TI films grown on different substrates through analytical STEM
6:30 PM	Workshop Social Hour and Dinner
Friday, May 13th
7:40 AM	Light refreshments provided.
8:00 AM	Ching-Tzu Chen, IBM Charge-Spin Conversion in Topological Insulators VIEW PRESENTATION
8:30 AM	Dan Ralph, Cornell University Controlling the Strength and Direction of Spin-Orbit Torques
9:00 AM	Roland Kawakami, The Ohio State University Magneto-Optic Studies of Spin Dynamics and Spin Torque in High Spin-Orbit Materials VIEW PRESENTATION
9:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:00 AM	Thorsten Hesjedal, The University of Oxford Spin pumping through a topological insulator studied by ferromagnetic resonance
10:30 AM	Qi-Kun Xue, Tsinghua University The Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetically Doped Topological Insulators
11:00 AM	Kang Wang, The University of California Los Angeles Spin Orbit Interaction for Skyrmion Devices
11:30 AM	Lunch Break. Lunch is on your own.
12:30 PM	Jing Shi, University of California Riverside Topological spin Seebeck effect in topological insulator/magnetic insulator heterostructures
1:00 PM	Richard Kiehl, Arizona State University Toward Topological Spintronics: Local Conductance on Terraced Bi2Te3 Surfaces and Proximity Induced Ferromagnetism from Nanoparticle Arrays VIEW PRESENTATION
1:30 PM	Valeria Lauter, Oakridge National Laboratory Hidden Interfaces and High-Temperature Magnetism in Intrinsic Topological Insulator - Ferromagnetic Insulator Heterostructures VIEW PRESENTATION
2:00 PM	Closing Remarks. Thank you for attending the workshop!

University of Minnesota

Topological Spintronic Devices and Beyond

*Revsied May 18, 2016

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