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News of Tohoku-York-Kaiserslautern Core-to-Core Project on
"New-Concept Spintronics Devices"
Fifth Workshop on New-Concept Spintronics Devices
Date: 21-23 June 2017
Venue: Departments of Physics and Electronics, University of York
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As part of the EPSRC/JSPS funded Core-to-Core grant in Spintronics and Advanced Materials the fourth symposium in the series of joint meetings was held in the department from the 21stto the 23rdJune 2017. Under the EPSRC/JSPS Core-to-Core project the symposia are extremely generously funded and are also linked to a major EPSRC grant held in the department with a value of about £1M over five years. Under the Core-to-Core programme three universities must be involved and be able to demonstrate that within their field they are the best in their country. This is the so called “best with best” principle. Accordingly as the largest spintronics group in the UK we are partnered with the research group of Prof Burkard Hillebrands of Technical University of Kaiserslautern and latterly IFW Dresden, whose laboratory specialises in the field of magnonics. Our Japanese partner is Tohoku University which is the leading institution in the world in magnetism research. We collaborate with the laboratory of Prof Hideo Ohno of the RIEC Institute and Prof Koki Takanashi of the Institute for Materials Research. There is also an associated relationship with the NIMS Institute in Tsukuba.
The symposium had an attendance of 98 individuals which makes it the second largest meeting in the field of magnetism and spintronics in the UK. However there were 25 participants from Japan, 7 from Kaiserslautern and 15 other attendees from a range of EU countries and the United States including three representatives of Seagate Technology in Northern Ireland. Hence as an international meeting it is the largest in the field held in the UK.
The programme consisted of a range of invited talks typically of 30 minutes duration and delivered by leading international figures. Obviously these included keynote presentations from Professors Ohno and Takanashi, Prof Hillebrands and Prof Atsufumi Hirohata who is the York technical lead on the project. Hence the overall standard of the presentations was world leading. There was an associated poster session for junior researchers and students who predominantly were from the Department of Physics.
For this event it had been agreed that a greater emphasis will be placed upon including junior staff to give invited presentations. This included four of our more junior colleagues but with additional presentations from persons of a similar standing from TU Kaiserslautern, SPINTEC and Bielefeld University.
Importantly a representative of JSPS, Ms Ayoka Matsumura, also attended the first two days of the symposium and had an exhibition booth with a rolling electronic presentation available. Many individuals, both from York and some of our guests from overseas, took the opportunity to engage with Ms Matsumura and importantly she also had a meeting with a representative of the Dean of Social Sciences at York about a new programme in that area for which they are seeking applications. Many people were surprised and impressed by the range of visiting scholarships that are available from JSPS which include funding for PhD students, postdocs, junior academics and senior academics, some of which extend for periods of up to one year. The funding for such scholarships is extremely generous and it is to be hoped that many colleagues may wish to become engaged in collaborations with Japan. Full details of the scholarships available from JSPS can be found at the JSPS London website http://www.jsps.org/.
The next meeting is scheduled to be held in Tohoku University on the 15thand 16thDecember which follows on immediately from the annual Tohoku University Workshop on Spintronics which commences on the 13thDecember. The next European symposium in the series will be held during week commencing 28thMay 2018 at TU Kaiserslautern in Germany. This date has been carefully selected so as to coincide with the spragl (asparagus) season which is a very special treat.
It should be noted that all the participants and in particular Professors Ohno, Takanashi and Hillebrands expressed their gratitude for the meticulous organisation of the symposium and in particular the formal dinner that was attended by Brian Fulton and Thomas Krauss as representatives of the university. The success of this meeting and the recognition it achieves is almost entirely due to the efforts of Susan Remmer who even has to type this. Her help and support was acknowledged by the principal investigators of the entire Core-to-Core project.
Prof. Hideo Ohno (Japanese Coordinator)
Research Institute of Electrical Communications, Tohoku University
Prof. Kevin O'Grady (UK Coordinator)
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York
Prof. Burkard Hillebrands (German Coordinator)
Department of Physics, Technical University of Kaiserslautern
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