14 - 15 September 2006
Venue: ESRF Auditorium
 

Programme

 

Thursday, 14 September 2006
13:00 Registration
13:30 Welcome and introduction F Sette, W Stirling - ESRF - France / Ph Nozières - ILL - France
  Session 1 Chairman: W Stirling - ESRF - France 
14:00 Geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets John Chalker - University of Oxford - UK
14:45 X-ray absorption and resonant scattering in noncentrosymmetric crystals Ivan Marri - Univ. Modena e Reggio E.- Italy
15:15 The spin-orbit sum rule Gerrit van der Laan - Daresbury Laboratory - UK
16:00 Coffee break  
  Session 2 Chairman: E Kats - ILL - France
16:30

XMCD L-edges in rare earths

 Bruce Harmon - AMES Laboratory - USA
17:15 Relativistic and correlation effects in ferromagnets probed by valence band photoemission Hubert Ebert - Universität München - Germany
18:00 Contributed talk: L and M edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in transition-metal compounds Michel van Veenendaal - Northern Illinois University/Argonne National Laboratory - USA
18:25 Poster session  
19:30 Bus departure for hotels  
20:00 Poster session ends and bus departure for hotels pickup and restaurant  
20:30 Symposium dinner at the restaurant La Panse  
Friday, 15 September 2006
  Session 3 Chairman: T Sluckin - University of Southampton - UK
08:30 Resonant soft X-ray scattering George Sawatzky - University of British Colombia - Canada
09:15 Berry phase, topology, and diabolicity in molecular magnets Patrick Bruno - Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik - Germany
10:00 Contributed talk: How chemistry controls physical properties of t2g¹ perovskites Ole Krogh Andersen - Max-Planck -Institut für Festkörperforschung - Germany
10:25 Coffee break  
  Session 4 Chairman: G Grübel - Hasylab at DESY - Germany
11:00 Orbital polarisation in transition-metal oxides and X-ray absorption linear dichroism Takeo Jo - Hiroshima University - Japan
11:45 Orbital magnetism from the first principles Igor Solovyev - National Institute for Materials Science - Japan
12:30 Lunch  
  Session 5 Chairman: D. Gibbs - Brookhaven National Laboratory - USA
14:00 X-ray optical activity Andrei Rogalev - ESRF - France
14:45 Spin-flip scattering and Josephson phase relation in Pi-Junctions Fabio Pistolesi - LPMMC - France
15:10 Physics with polarized X-rays: the contributions of Paolo Carra Massimo Altarelli - European XFEL Project Team DESY - Germany
15:55 Closing remarks Yves Petroff -ESRF - France

 

16:30

 

End of symposium (coffee and tea available)