Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting (TEMM)
16-17 June 2016, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Pickavance, R22
Thursday 16nd June
09:30-10:20 Registration (R75, Reception); Coffee and tea (R22, Pickavance)
10:20-10:30 Welcome (Pickavance)
10:30- 12:10 Session 1: Low Dimensional and Frustrated Magnetism (Pickavance)
Chairman: Steve Bramwell
10:30 Christian Ruegg (PSI)
Quasi-particles in quantum spin ladders with and without disorder
10:55 Paul McClarty (ISIS)
Excitations in quantum pyrochlore magnet Yb2Ti2O7
11:20 Jamie Brambleby (Warwick)
Mapping of Quantum Fluctuations in a two-dimensional spin-dimer network
11:45 Je-Geun Park (Seoul)
Metal-Insulator transition with singlet dimerization in two-dimensional
honeycomb lattice of Li2RuO3
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch + Group Photo + Posters (RAL Visitor Centre)
14:00 – 15:40 Session 2: Role of Spin-Orbit Coupling (Pickavance)
Chairman: Ross Stewart
14:00 Giniyat Khaliullin (MPI Stuttgart)
Soft spins and Higgs mode in ruthenates
14:25 Maria Daghofer (Stuttgart)
Excitonic quasiparticles in spin-orbit couple Mott insulators
14:50 Christian Donnerer (UCL)
Magnetic correlations and implications for topological phases in the
pyrochlore iridate Sm2Ir2O7
15:15
Premi Chandra (Rutgers)
Probing Anisotropies of the Hidden Order in URu2Si2
15:40 – 16:15 Coffee and Tea (R22)
16:15 – 17:55 Session 3: Quantum Spin Liquids (Pickavance)
Chairman: Claudio Castelnovo
16:15 Maria Herrmanns (Cologne)
3D Kitaev Spin Liquids
16:40 Johannes Knolle (Cambridge)
Fermionic response from fractionalization in an insulating two-dimensional magnet
17:05 Lars Fritz (Utrecht)
Frustrated magnetism on the swedenborgite lattice
17:30 Stephen Blundell (Oxford)
Muons in spin liquid candidates and in spin ice
18:00 – 19:30 Posters and Drinks (RAL Visitor Centre)
19:30 – 21:00 Conference Dinner (RAL Restaurant)
Friday 17th June
8:30 – 10:10 Session 4: Computational Magnetism (Pickavance)
Chairman: Martin Lueders
08:30 Leon Petit (Daresbury)
Complex magnetism of Gd-intermetallics: Theory and experiment
08:55 Bob Stamps (Glasgow)
Dynamics of chiral spin systems: soliton lattices, defects and spinwaves
09:20 Tom Ostler (Liege)
Ultrafast magnetization dynamics in FeRh
09:45 Gino Hrkac (Exeter)
Atomistic to micromagnetic modelling:
from permanent magnets to magnetic spin torque oscillators
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee and Tea (R22)
10:40 – 12:20 Session 5: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (Pickavance)
Chairman: Piers Coleman
10:40 Qimiao Si (Rice)
Correlated Electrons in Iron Based Superconductors:
Frustrated Magnetism and Nematicity in FeSe
11:05 Amalia Coldea (Oxford)
Tuning nematicity and Fermi surfaces with chemical pressure in FeSeS
11:30 Andrew Boothroyd (Oxford)
Commensurate lattice distortion and CDW proximate to superconductivity
in titanium oxypnictides
11:55 Joseph Betouras (Loughborough)
Some effects of Lifshitz transitions in NaxCoO2 and Sr3Ru2O7
12:20 – 13:20 Lunch + Posters (RAL Visitor Centre)
13:20 – 15:00 Session 6: Multiferroics, Skyrmions, Thin Films (Pickavance)
Chairman: Giovanni Sordi
13:20 Roger Johnson (Oxford)
Multiferroic domains in insulating thin film antiferromagnets
13:45 Peter Hatton (Durham)
Neutron and Resonant X-ray Diffraction studies of Skyrmion Lattices
14:10 Laura Bovo (UCL)
Spin ice as a model system for magnetization experiments
14:35 Nicholas d’Ambrumenil (Warwick)
Field-induced order and dispersionless spin waves in Gadolinium Gallium Garnet
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee and Tea (R22)
15:30 – 16:30 Optional Tours of ISIS
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15:30 – 16:30 Session 7: Excitation Group Updates (Pickavance)
Chairman: Russell Ewings
15:30 Rob Bewley (ISIS)
Instrument Updates
16:00 Toby Perring (ISIS)
Software Updates
16:30 Transport to Heathrow and Didcot
Online line registration can be done at https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/cmt/temm/registrationform.asp