INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed):

2015: International Year of Light

1. Special Symposium on "X-ray Microscopy and Magnetism"
   (organized by Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford)

   • Frithjof Nolting (SLS, Villigen)
     "X-PEEM studies of magnetic nanoparticles and oxide heterostructures"
   • Stefano Bonetti (Stockholm)
     "Imaging spin currents and spin waves at the nanoscale"
   • Guido Meier (Hamburg)
     "Transmission x-ray microscopy of magnetic nanostructures"
   • Andreas Schmid (LBNL, Berkeley)
     "PEEM and SPLEEM to investigate and tailor chiral magnetism"

2. Special Session "Magnetism by Light"
   (organized by Andrzej Maziewski, Białystok)

   • Markus Munzenberg (Greifswald)
     "Ultrafast dynamics of spins and spin currents in magnetic storage and spintronic devices"
   • Andrei Kirilyuk (Nijmegen)
     "The role of exchange interaction in all-optical magnetic switching in thin films and multilayers"
   • Stephane Mangin (Nancy)
     "All-optical control of ferromagnetic thin films and nanostructures"

Thin film and multilayer magnetism

• Tomasz Ślęzak (Kraków)
  "Resolving the complex spin structures with Nuclear Resonant Scattering"
• Maciej Sawicki (Warszawa)
  "(Ga,Mn)N - an insulating ferromagnet: phase diagram and critical behaviour"

Surface and interface magnetism

• Khalil Zakeri (Halle)
  "Probing of the magnetic exchange interaction at interfaces by magnon spectroscopy"
• Henk Swagten (Eindhoven)
  "Novel ways to address interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions"

Spin-currents and spin-Hall effect

• Axel Hoffmann (Argonne)
  "Magnetization dynamics driven by Spin-Hall effects"
• Georg Woltersdorf (Halle)
  "Spin-Hall effect in metallic multilayers"
• Kevin Garello (Zurich)
  "Ultrafast magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques"

Spin-caloritronics

• David Cahill (Urbana)
  "Thermal spin transfer torque driven by ultrafast heat flow in metallic spin-valve structures"
• Matthias Althammer (Garching)
  "Pure spin currents in ferromagnetic insulator / normal metal hybrids"

Magnonics

• Silvia Tacchi (Perugia)
  "Brillouin Light Scattering studies of two-dimensional magnonic crystals"

Domains and domain walls

• Geoffrey Beach (Cambridge)
  "Chiral domain walls in ultrathin films"

Magneto-electric and magneto-elastic effects

• Takayuki Nozaki (Tsukuba)
  "Voltage-control of magnetic anisotropy: What's the next target?"

Skyrmions and vortices

• Albert Fert (Paris)
• Kirsten von Bergmann (Hamburg)
  "Interface-induced magnetic skyrmions studied with spin-polarized STM"

Graphen, topological insulators and related materials

• Josef Barnaś (Poznań)
  "Spin-orbit effects in graphene and related 2D materials"

Antiferromagnetism and antiferromagnetic spintronics

• Tomas Jungwirth (Prague)
  "Antiferromagnetic spintronics"

Nano and micromagnetism

• Laura Heyderman (Villigen)
  "Recent advances in artificial ferroic systems"
• Riccardo Hertel (Strasbourg)
  "Ultrafast domain wall dynamics in magnetic nanotubes and nanowires"

Molecular magnets and molecular spintronics

• Peter Oppeneer (Uppsala)
  "Spin-bearing molecules on magnetic substrates: Theory of exchange interaction and spin switching"
• Wolfgang Kuch (Berlin)
  "Controlling the magnetism of adsorbed metal-organic molecules"

Magnetic devices

• Julie Grollier (Palaiseau)
  "Spin-torque nanodevices for bio-inspired computing"