Bridging the Gap from Free Clusters to Functional Nanostructures

The fundamental properties of small particles, and their potential for groundbreaking applications, are among the most exciting areas of research in modern physics, chemistry, and biology. The 2015 Gordon Conference focuses on the intimate interplay between the properties of clusters over a wide size range and their translation into supported nanoparticles, so bridging the gap from free clusters to functional nanostructures.

The traditional interdisciplinary nature of this Conference will be preserved. Fundamental questions, such as cluster formation, geometric structure, electronic structure, magnetism, optical properties, chemical reactivity, and alloying in the gas phase will complement topics crucial to applications, such as cluster support interactions and functional behavior in catalysis, optical labeling, cluster assembled materials, nano-engineering, etc.

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The objective of the Hercules Specialized Course is to combine theoretical courses with practical lessons performed using neutrons and synchrotron radiation on state-of-the-art instruments/beamlines.

   Practicals will take place at the European neutron (ILL) and synchrotron radiation (ESRF) facilities located in Grenoble.

   The attendance will be limited to 24 participants (mainly PhD students and post-doctoral researchers) to allow an active participation in the practicals, a strong interaction between the participants and the lecturers, as well as among the participants themselves.

Topics list
• Properties and Characterizations of Surfaces and Interfaces
• Nanostructured Thin Films
• Functional Nanostructured Coatings
• Plasma and Ions for Surface Engineering. Radiations Effects
• Nanoparticle and Nanodevice Production Technology
• Measurement and Analysis of Nanoscale
• Magnetic Fine Particles and Multilayers
• Nanopolymers and Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Applications
• Carbon Based Nanoscale Materials
• Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
• Nanomaterials Applications in Biotechnologies and Medicine
• Nanomaterials Applications in Electronics, Spintronics and Photonics

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 Speaker Information

• Cyril Aymonier
  Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux,
  Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France

• Marie-Paule Pileni
  Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques,
  University Pierre & Marie Curie, France

• Shaowei Chen
  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
  University of California, United States

• Jindrich Musil
  Department of Physics,
  University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic

• Yury Gogotsi
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
  Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Won Ho Jo
  Department of Material Science and Engineering,
  Seoul National University, South Korea

• Reshef Tenne
  Department of Materials and Interfaces,
  Weizmann Institute, Israel

• Paulo J. Ferreira
  Materials Science and Engineering Program,
  The University of Texas at Austin
  , United States

• Jean Roncali
  Group Linear Conjugated Systems,
  Universite d'Angers, France

This three-day workshop will bring together experimentalists and theorists studying atomic and molecular scales structures on surfaces. The central theme of the workshop is the investigation of molecules on surfaces, and key topics are expected to include:

• Individual atoms and molecules â€" and structures engineered from these â€" on metals, semiconductors, insulators, and 2D materials
• Manipulation of the electronic and magnetic states of individual atoms and molecules through interactions with surfaces
• Molecular self assembly and molecular surface functionalization
• Molecule-based devices
• Novel imaging techniques (including tunnelling and force microscopies), spectroscopies and time resolved measurements.

One of the central objectives of the meeting is to promote cross-boundary discussions, especially at the experiment/theory and fundamental/applied interfaces. Time will be allocated to facilitate such discussions, including poster sessions and a social event.

Invited speakers

• Harald Brune (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Andrew Fisher (University College London, UK)
• Katharina Franke (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
• Robert Hamers (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• Lev Kantorovich (Kings College London, UK)
• Mats Persson (University of Liverpool, UK)
• Damien Riedel (University of Paris-Sud, France)
• François Rochet (Pierre and Marie Curie University, France)
• Tamar Seideman (Northwestern University, USA)
• Roberta Sessoli (University of Florence, Italy)
• Latha Venkataraman (Columbia University, USA)
• Ayelet Vilan (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• Jörg Zegenhagen (Diamond Light Source, UK)

Epitaxy and Promises

Scope

Epitaxy allows nowadays the usual growth of nanostructures with unique properties. The control of their growth at the finest level is a challenge in achieving new systems. It involves both the understanding of the growth mechanisms together with the knowledge of the properties of materials at the nanoscale. It is a domain where both fundamental research and industrial issues are closely entangled.

This summer school is aimed at giving to Ph-D students, young but also senior scientists, an up-to-date overview on the epitaxy of semi-conductors. The basic growth mechanisms will be presented with an emphasis on the new developments in this understanding. The control of the growth using patterns, selective growth or new geometries such as nanomembranes, nanowires or sheets, will be reviewed. The properties of the epitaxial systems, already explored or expected, will be given both theoretically and experimentally with a description of the characterization techniques. The school will give the opportunity to review the most important achievements in practical applications of epitaxial nanostructures. A particular attention will be given to new trends and pioneering directions, as well as to new materials and devices.

The topics include growth, nanostructures, characterization, physical properties and devices.

Crystal Growth

equilibrium properties, kinetics and nucleation, self-organization, step growth droplet epitaxy.

Semiconductors epitaxy

elastic relaxation, quantum dots, 2D/3D transition and ATG instability, strain/composition coupling, pattern, selective growth, nanomembranes and nanowires, graphene

Properties and characterization

optical and electronic properties, structural and chemical characterization, magnetic properties, single object diffraction, tomography

Integration and applications

heterogeneous integration and optical applications, heterogeneous integration and electronic applications, use of epitaxial systems in fundamental systems, industrial issues, promises and limitations.

This summer school is dedicated to PhD students and young scientists. It will provide both a reminder of the basic understanding of epitaxy together with a description of its modern applications. It will explore the latest developments of the crystal growth at the finest levels, its potential together with its challenges. The opto-electronic and magnetic properties of nanostructures made by epitaxy will be described together with their characterization. Finally, the use of epitaxy both in new fundamental objects and in industrial applications will be explored.

The event is intended to teach the fundamentals of crystallography, starting from theoretical group theory and its applications in solid state and magnetic symmetry. A workshop where the participants can apply the methods taught directly on their cases at hand as well as having the opportunity to present their work will go in parallel, as part of the school.

This workshop is intended to capture current research interests regarding interfaces, domains, domain walls, vortices and skyrmions in ferroics as an emerging field in solid state physics and materials science.

Thematic areas

• Domains and domain walls
• Skyrmions
• Vortex, anti-vortex and vertex structures in ferroics
• Nanoelectronics using domain wall logic
• Nanoscale characterisation of ferroelectric, ferroelastic, magnetic and multiferroic materials
• Interface studies of ferroics

All aspects of molecular magnetism, from materials preparation, physical characterisation and theory, will be considered and among them the following main topics:

• Molecular nanomagnets
• Switchable magnetic materials and optical magnets
• Photo-induced magnetism
• Conducting magnets
• Molecular routes to nanostructured magnets
• Modelling and theory
• Materials processing
• Devices and applications
• New materials
• Instrumentation
• Molecular routes to magnetic nanoparticles
• Molecular nanoscience
• Molecular spintronics
• Molecular electronics

The topic for the 2015 European School on Magnetism is From basic magnetic concepts to spin currents, part of the Series of the European School on Magnetism. Like previous editions of ESM, the 2015 School aims at providing a thorough understanding of magnetism based on a broad series of fundamental lectures, while offering the latest insights into up-to-date aspects of magnetism with lectures focusing on a special topic. The topic proposed in 2015 is spintronics with a special emphasis on Spin currents. This covers a wide range of fundamental phenomena in condensed matter physics, and opportunities for applications. The detailed topics to be covered are: basic concepts, magnetism in matter, thermal effects and magnetization processes, transport phenomena, spin-transfer effects, effects of electric field, spin currents, caloritronics etc. The School is addressed at young scientists, mainly PhD students and post-docs, both experimentalists and theoreticians. It will gather circa 20 lecturers and a hundred participants coming mainly from Europe, with a few positions open to other countries. It will consist of a ten-day training of lectures and practicals provided by prominent scientists active in today's research, interactive question sessions, access to a library of magnetism-related books, and industrial contributions.

Nanoscale Spintronics with Magnons, Phonons, and Photons

Spintronics is a leading contender for future nano-scale, "beyond Moore", data storage, processing, and transmission technologies. In particular, magnetism-based spintronics has enormous largely unexplored potential given its two particular features: (i) the extreme robustness of the magnetic order parameter against elevated temperatures and nanoscale confinement, and, (ii) the power-efficient spin-torque manipulation of the magnetic order by electric currents. As researchers are probing deeper into the spin dynamics of nanostructures, new physics and associated functionalities are being discovered at a dazzling pace. The 2nd Gordon Research Conference and 1st Gordon Research Seminar on "Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures" will provide an important stage for the main players in the field (and those who want to joint them) to present and discuss new results and future plans, in theory, computation, simulation, and experiments.

The conference will touch many issues of modern spintronics and magnetism that challenge conventional wisdom. Magnetism occurs in metals and insulators, in the form of ferro-, ferri- and antiferromagnetic ground states, all with specific dynamical properties. Elementary spin wave excitations (magnons) can be excited and controlled by external stimuli such as magnetic fields, heating, electric currents, light (photons) and sound (phonons). The magnetization field may contain topological defects such as domain walls, vortices, and skyrmions that are especially susceptible to perturbations. The spin-orbit interaction is an essential ingredient to access, excite and stabilize magnetic textures and their dynamics. As structures approach the nanometer scale, new challenges arise due to the increased role of internal interfaces and contacts to the outside world and novel emerging quantum effects. Moreover, studies on the femtosecond to picosecond time-scales provide insights into regimes which defy established wisdom.

We invite starting and expert researchers from academia and industry with backgrounds in experiment, theory, and computation of magnetism, optics, mechanics, electronics and thermoelectrics to participate in these meetings. The goal of these meetings is to exchange ideas and to discuss the most recent progress and most challenging problems. Of special welcome are junior scientists working on or interested in the field. At the preceding 1st Gordon Research Seminar in magnetism they will receive briefings from leading researchers as well as present and extensively discuss their work among themselves in order to maximally profit from the subsequent conference.

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RTNSA-2 topics:

• Â Preparation and characterization of magnetic / spintronic materials and nanostructures
• Â Magnetic hysteresis in nanomagnetic materials
•  Magnetoresistance, magnetoimpedance, spin  angular momentum transfer
•  Spin accumulation and spin injection in  nanostructures
• Â Spincaloritronics and spin-orbit effects
• Â Spin waves in patterned films and magnonics
•  Spin excitations and dynamics of magnetic  vortices, skyrmions and domain walls
•  Micromagnetic, multiscale and atomistic  simulations of nanostructures
• Â Applications of nanostructures: nanosensors, Â spintronic devices etc.

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IWMW-7 topics:

• Â Magneto-transport properties (Giant magneto-impedance, Giant Magnetoresistance)
•  Magnetization process and domain wall  dynamics of thin wires
• Â New wire-shaped materials (Heusler-type, Â Magnetocaloric, granular)
•  Applications (sensors, electromagnetic  shielding)
• Â Metamaterials (especially based on thin wires)
• Â High-frequency properties of thin wires

About the Workshop

We are proud to announce that the International Workshop on Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Exotic Spin Structures (DMI 2015) will take place in Pskov, Russia on May 26 â€" 29, 2015. The III International Workshop DMI 2015, hosted by the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), follows two previous meetings held in Saint Petersburg (2011) and Veliky Novgorod (2013). DMI 2015 is intended for researchers working in the field of the structural and magnetic properties of noncentrosymmetric crystals and artificial nanostructures. The objective of the workshop is to serve as a platform for scientific discussion and exchange of ideas among the scientists willing to share their research findings as well as to review and discuss the recent progress, developments and advances in DMI and chiral magnetism.

Scientific scope

The workshop will include the application of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) to the following areas:

- cubic ferromagnets without center of symmetry;

- antiferromagnets without center of symmetry;

- nanostructures at the surfaces and interfaces;

- weak ferromagnetism.

DMI 2015 will present invited talks, oral reports and poster presentations.

Electromagnetic Processing of Materials (EPM) relates to all branches of materials processing where some benefit could be attained from an electromagnetic influence on the process. This covers traditional areas such as liquid metal processing, metal casting and solidification, induction heating, but also crystal growth from the melt, plasma processes, recycling and separation.

Organised by the IOP BRSG: Magnetic Resonance Group

This one-day meeting will discuss the complementarity of muon techniques with well established magnetic resonance methods. Presentations will cover many aspects of condensed matter physics and chemistry, highlighting the novel information muon measurements can provide.

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Semiconductor and Oxide Muonics
Steve Cox, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

11:30

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Towards Green and Safe Rechargeable Batteries
Martin Mansson, PSI and EPFL, Switzerland

12:00

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Unconventional Superconductivity in Alkali Fullerides
Kosmas Prassides, University of Durham, UK

12:30

 Lunch

14:00

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Opportunities for µSR
Adrian Hillier, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

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Local Probe Investigations of Highly Frustrated Kagome Antiferromagnets
Fabrice Bert, University Paris Sud, France

14:45

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Spin Dynamics and Onset of Correlations in Dilute LiY_1-xHo_xF₄
Mike Graf, Boston College, USA

15:15

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Spin Diffusion in the Low-Dimensional Molecular Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Cu(pyz) (NO₃)₂ Detected with Implanted Muons
Fan Xiao, University of Durham, UK

15:45

 Refreshments

16:15

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Interfacial transfer in Microemulsions by Muon Spectroscopy
Nigel Clayden, University of East Anglia, UK

16:45

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Spin Probes in Soft Matter
Iain McKenzie, TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University, Canada

17:15

 Close of meeting

Key dates

• Early registration deadline:

  18 November 2014

• Registration deadline:

  9 December 2014

The conference will cover research in all aspects of the chemistry and physics of organic solids, with lectures focused on the following topics:

• Crystallization Processes
• Polymorphism
• Crystal Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Materials
• Molecular Motions in Crystals
• Chemical Reactions in Organic Solids
• Biomaterials
• Crystal Structure Prediction
• Chirality in Organic Crystals
• Inclusion Compounds and Supramolecular Materials
• Mechanochemistry of Organic Solids
• Metal-organic Frameworks
• Nano-structured Organic Materials
• Organic Polymers
• Amorphous Organic Solids
• Liquid Crystals
• Optical, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties
• Industrial Applications of Organic Solids
• Experimental and Computational Techniques

Confirmed Speakers

• Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University
• Kunio Awaga, Nagoya University
• Graeme M. Day, University of Southampton
• Robert Dinnebier, Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research, Stuttgart
• Karl-Heinz Ernst, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
• Tomislav Friscic, McGill University
• Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo
• Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles
• Kenneth D.M. Harris, Cardiff University
• Masahiro Irie, Rikkyo University
• Bart Kahr, New York University
• Yuji Ohashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Masami Sakamoto, Chiba University
• Lian Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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This is a specialized workshop explaining the Magnetic option in Jana2006 for refinement of magnetic structures from neutron powder or single crystal data. Jana2006 includes tools for determination of magnetic symmetry from the symmetry of diffraction pattern as well as tools for representative analysis. It can find direct relationship between magnetic space or superspace group and corresponding representation and use it in the refinement.

The Swiss Physical Society SPG and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI invite you to a training session on "Modern aspects of the physics of condensed matter" to PSI in Villigen AG.

 Lectures:

Polymer brush structures on polymer surfaces, Dr. C. Padeste, PSI

Nanomagnets as model systems, Prof. F. Nolting, PSI

X-ray phase contrast imaging, Dr. F. Marone, PSI

Magnetism and Superconductivity, Prof. C. Niedermayer, PSI / University of Konstanz

Roundtable Discussion:

Current Topics in Physics Education, Prof. A. Vaterlaus, Dr. C. Wagner, A. Lichtenberger, ETH Zurich

Evening lecture:

The proton accelerator HIPA as a tool for research, Dr. M. Seidel, PSI


Cost: SPG and the PSI take over the costs of meals and accommodation.
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The final program will be sent to the beginning of November to the participants.

A workshop will be held at the University of Huddersfield to discuss the development and application of future Muon sources.

Organised with the support of the European Union 7^th Framework Programme, this will be a joint meeting between the Accelerator Applications Network of EuCARD2 (http://eucard2.web.cern.ch) and the Muon Joint Research Activity within the Neutron and Muon Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (http://nmi3.eu).

The aim of the meeting is to bring together scientists and engineers involved in the development and application of accelerator-based muon sources to discuss and exchange ideas about the requirements for future facilities.
The meeting will consider new technologies required for the production of novel muon beams, such as Ultra Slow beams and the Muon Microscopes, while taking a forward look to new applications of muon techniques in academia and industry.