Spin Transport and Dynamics in Nanostructures
Minneapolis, May 6-8, 2005
All sessions will be held in the Radisson Hotel Metrodome.
0815-0900 REGISTRATION 0900-0905 WELCOME 0905-0945 DAVID AWSCHALOM Current-Induced Polarization and the Spin-Hall Effect in Semiconductors 0945-1025 BERT HALPERIN Impurity Scattering and the Spin Hall Conductance 1025-1110 COFFEE 1110-1150 ALEXANDER KHAETSKII Spin Currents: Myth and Reality 1150-1230 ALLAN MACDONALD To Skew or not to Skew: Numerical Studies of the Anomalous and Spin Hall Effects 1230-1400 LUNCH Friday, May 6, Afternoon 1400-14:40 SEIGO TARUCHA Manipulation of Electron and Nuclear Spin in Quantum Dots 14:40-15:20 DAN GAMMON Optical Pumping of the Electron and Nuclear Spin of a Single GaAs Quantum Dot 1520-1610 COFFEE 1610-1650 LEO KOUWENHOVEN Single Spin Readout Schemes and Spin Relaxation in Quantum Dots 1650-1730 DANIEL LOSS Spin Dynamics and Decoherence in Quantum Dots Saturday, May 7, Morning 0900-0940 CHARLES MARCUS Single-Electron Spin Relaxation and Dephasing Measurements in a Pulsed-Gate Quantum Dot System 0940-1020 JOSHUA FOLK Hyperfine Interactions and Two-Electron Spin States in a Double Quantum Dot 1020-1110 COFFEE 1110-1150 MICHAEL FLATTE The Spin Gunn Effect 1150-1230 BERND BESCHOTEN Spin Dephasing and Dynamical Nuclear Polarization in Semiconductors 1230-1400 LUNCH Saturday, May 7, Afternoon 1400-1440 ILYA KRIVOROTOV Dynamics of Nanomagnets Excited by Spin-Polarized Currents 1440-1520 PIET BROUWER Mesoscopic Bound on Anisotropy in Itinerant Ferromagnets 1520-1610 COFFEE 1610-1650 THOMAS SILVA Spectroscopic Investigations of Magnetization Dynamics Using Spin Momentum Transfer in Nanocontacts 1650-1730 MARK STILES Macrospin Modeling of Spin Transfer Torques: Successes and Failures TBA SOCIAL HOUR & CONFERENCE DINNER Sunday, May 8, Morning 0830-0900 COFFEE 0900-0940 ANDREW KENT Current-Induced Excitations in Single Ferromagnetic Layer Nanopillars and Spin Valves 0940-1020 YAROSLAW BAZALIY Fluctuations, Dissipation, and Switching in Tunneling Spin-Transfer Devices 1020-1100 YAROSLAV TSERKOVNYAK Spin Transfer Noise in Ferromagnetic Hybrids 1100-1150 TBA