Workshop program can be found here
Abstracts of the oral presentations can be found here
Main Workshop topics
All-optical switching/manipulation of magnetization
- All-optical switching in ferrimagnetic alloys and multilayers;
- All-optical switching based on inverse opto-magnetic effects;
- Feasibility of switching via the modification of magnetic anisotropy or exchange interaction;
- Magnetization reversal in thin film and multilayer ferrimagnets driven by current pulses
Optics of spin currents
- Generation of controlled hot electrons using fast laser excitation in engineered multilayers;
- Magnetization switching with hot electrons;
- Laser-driven spin-orbitronics;
- THz control and detection of spin currents
Ultrafast magneto-electrics
- Inverse opto-magnetic effects and crystal symmetry;
- Modification of key magnetic parameters: exchange and magneto-crystalline anisotropy;
- All-optical switching in magnetic and multiferroic dielectrics;
- Dynamics in magneto-electrics and multiferroics driven by short THz pulses;
- Demonstration of the feasibility of electric detection of ultrafast spin dynamics in magneto-electrics.
Ultrafast opto-magnonics
- Optical shaping of magnonic currents;
- Electric and/or optic excitation and detection of magnonic currents;
- Magnonic crystals and reconfigurable magnonic devices;
- Magnonic currents generated in metals via all-optical switching
Preliminary list of invited speakers
- Jon Gorchon, Nancy
- Julius Hohlfeld, Nancy
- Carl Davies, Nijmegen
- Bert Koopmans, Eindhoven
- Andrea Eschenlohr, Duisburg
- Alexey Melnikov, Halle/Saale
- Petr Nemec, Prague
- Alexandra Kalashnikova, Saint Petersburg
- Tomaz Mertelj, Ljubljana
- Gerrit Bauer, Delft/Sendai
- Rostislav Mikhajlovskiy, Lancaster
- Evangelos Papaioannou, Kaiserslautern
- Thomas Ostler, Sheffield
- Jarosław Kłos, Poznań
