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 Prof. Johan Akerman University of Gothenburg – Sweden 
Tohoku University - Japan 
 
Title : Recent advances in spin Hall nano-oscillators: 10 nm devices and mutual synchronization of 1000s of oscillators 
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 Prof. Geoffrey S.D. Beach 
Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at MIT – USA 
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 Dr. Jeffrey Brock 
Paul Scherrer Institut and ETH Zurich – Switzerland 
 
Title : Impacts of the half-skyrmion spin topology, spin-orbit torque, and dynamic symmetry breaking on the growth of magnetic stripe domains 
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 Prof Roy Chantrell 
Physics Department - University of York - UK 
 
Title: Evolving models of FePt and new approaches to induced spins in atomistic approaches 
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 Prof. J. M. D. Coey School of PhysicsTrinity College, Dublin Ireland 
 
Title: Some aspects of amorphous transition-metal alloys revisited 
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 George De Coster 
  
Title : Illuminating Hidden Symmetries in Topological Insulator Thin Films 
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 Dr. Bernard DIENY 
SPINTEC, CEA/Grenoble, IRIG -France 
 
Title: Using magnetism to act on living cells 
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 Prof. Hermann A. Dürr 
Uppsala University - Sweden 
 
Title : Ultrafast dynamics of FePt nanoparticles 
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 Prof. shaya Fainman 
University of California San Diego - USA 
 
Title : Nanolasers: Dynamics and Phase Locking 
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 Dr. Peter Fischer 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – USA 
UC Santa Cruz – USA 
Title: X-raying topological spin textures in space and time 
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 Prof. Michael E. Flatté University of Iowa, USA and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands 
 
Title: Coherent coupling to a thicket of spin-wave modes in an ultrastrongly coupled microwave-magnon system 
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 Prof. Edwin Fohtung 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA 
 
Title: Twisted light and topological structures of spontaneous symmetry breaking in nano-ferroics 
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 Prof. Eric Fullerton, fellow US National Academy of engineering  
UC- San Diego – USA 
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 Prof. Dustin Gilbert 
University of Tennessee - USA 
 
Title: Using neutrons to probe skyrmions in Gd/Fe thinfilms 
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 Prof. Matthew Gilbert  
University of Illinois Urbana -Champaign – USA 
 
Title: Magnetostrictive Evolution of Singular Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Topological Metals 
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 Dr. Julius Holfeld 
Université de Lorraine - France 
 
Title: Different ways to control all-optical switching in Gd-based ferrimagnets 
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 Prof. Andrei I. Kirilyuk FELIX Laboratory Radboud University – Netherlands 
 
title : Shaken, not stirred: a recipe for magnetic switching via phononic resonances 
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 Prof. Bert Koopmans  
University of Eindhoven – Netherlands 
 
Title : Towards on-chip spintronic-photonic integration 
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 Prof. Roopali Kukreja University of California Davis - USA 
 
Title: Unraveling optically induced ultrafast dynamics of nanoscale magnetic textures 
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 Romain Lebrun  
CNRS-Thales, UMR-137 - France 
 
Title:GHz and sub-THz magnonics with ferro- and anti-ferromagnetic insulators  
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 Prof. David Ledermann 
UC Santa Cruz – USA 
 
Title: Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: Past, Present, and Future 
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 Prof. Chris Leighton 
University of Minnesota, USA 
 
Title : Origin of the ultrahigh conductivity in the delafossite metal PdCoO2 
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 Prof. Vitaliy Lomakin 
University of California, San Diego - USA 
 
Title : Multi-physics micromagnetic models and solvers 
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 Prof Victoire de Margerie  
Rondol 
  
Title : World Materials Forum  
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 Prof. Y. Shirley Meng 
University of Chicago - USA 
 
Title : Energy Storage and Information Storage – Converging Materials Science 
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 Prof. Casey Miller 
Rochester Institute of Technology - USA 
 
Title : Phase Transitions within Magnetic Heterostructures 
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 Assistant Research Scientist Sergio Montoya 
University of California San Diego, USA 
 
title : Chiral magnetic spin textures in centrosymmetric and noncentrosymmetric thin film magnets 
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 Dr. Hans Nembach 
University of Colorado, Boulder and Affiliate of the National Institute of Standards and Technology -USA 
 
Title : Determination of the saturation magnetization and Heisenberg Exchange from spin-wave dispersion measurements 
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 Prof Aletta Prinsloo 
University of Johannesburg, South Africa 
 
Title : Bulk to nano Cr-based fundamental research 
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 Prof. T.H.M. Rasing  
Radboud University Nijmegen – Netherlands 
 
Title : Optical control of Magnetism: from ultrafast switching to brain inspired computing 
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 Jim Rhyne 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
 
Title :  Magnetic Coupling in Ferrite Nanoparticles Revealed by Polarized SANS and Inelastic Neutron Scattering 
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 Dr. Sujoy Roy 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – USA 
 
Title : Static and dynamic correlations of stripes and skyrmions in Fe/Gd thin films 
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 Dr. Biswajit Sahoo 
Dept of Physics, University of California, San Diego – USA 
 
Title : Effect of magnetic phase transition on spin Hall angle 
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 Rudolf Schaefer 
 
Title : Magneto-optics, revisited 
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 Prof. Ivan Schuller fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
UC- San Diego – USA 
 
Title : From Metallic Superlattices to Neuromorphic Computing 
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 Prof. Sunil Sinha 
UC- San Diego – USA 
 
title : Critical Dynamics of a Spin Glass using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy 
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 Prof. Kristiaan Temst KU Leuven – Belgium  
 
Title : Local probing of electric field-induced manipulation of magnetization 
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 Prof. Tom Thomson University of Manchester, UK 
 
Title :  FeRh in multifunctional exchange spring thin films 
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 Dr  Igor Vaskivskyi 
Jozef Stefan Institute- Slovenia 
 
Title : Another attempt at ultrafast magnetization switching in ferromagnets 
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 Dr. Andreas Berger 
 CIC nanoGUNE - Spain 
 
Title : Tuning magnetic phase transitions in thin films and multilayers 
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 Prof. Andrew Kent 
Director, Center for Quantum Phenomena - New York University USA 
 
Title : A friendship and collaboration that started with Co/Ni 
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 Prof. Axel Hoffmann 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - USA 
 
Title: How to turn charge into spin 
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 Prof. Kai Liu 
Georgetown University -USA 
 
Title : Magneto-Ionic Control of Spin Textures and Interfaces 
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 Prof Stéphane Mangin 
Université de Lorraine – France  
Title : From Spin Transfer Torque (STT) to all optical STT 
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 Dr Dafiné Ravelosona 
Spin-Ion Technologies -Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologie (C2N) - France 
 
Title: Enhancing domain wall motion in W-CoFeB-MgO materials using He+ ion irradiation 
 
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