**PRESENTATIONS AND SESSIONS

Oral presentations sessions:

1. Diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS).
2. Hybrid ferromagnetic metals/semiconductor structures
3. Heusler alloys and Magnetic oxides
4. Conventional and non-conventional nanofabrication
5. Characterisation of magnetic nanostructures
6. Spintronic devices (I): semiconductor based
7. Spintronic devices (II) : non-semiconductor based
8. Current induced magnetization reversal

Poster presentation session

Any applications should be sent to Dr Saito for review by the organising committee members. In particular, presentations by young researchers including students are welcomed and encouraged.

**ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Chair: Prof. Brian Cantor, FREng, York, UK
Co-Chair: Dr. Yongbing Xu, York, UK
Japanese Co-Chair: Prof. Hideo Ohno, Tohoku, Japan

Dr. Stuart Parkin, IBM-Stanford, USA
Prof. Mike Coey, Trinity College, Ireland
Prof. Koichiro Inomata, Tohoku University, Japan
Dr. Koji Ando, AIST, Japan
Professor Yoshishige Suzuki, Osaka University, Japan
Prof. Teruo Ono, Osaka University, Japan
Prof. Bryan Gallagher, Nottingham University, UK
Dr. Willem Van Roy, IMEC, Belgium
Prof. Rong Zhang, Nanjing, China
Dr. David Williams, Hitachi, UK
Dr. Stuart Holmes, Toshiba, UK
Dr. Andrew Jones, Yorkshire Forward, UK

 

**INVITED SPEAKERS:

Note: The invited speakers with asterisk(*) show to be confirmed.

Japan:

1.	Prof. Hideo Ohno	...	Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics Research, Tohoku University, Sendai
2.	Prof. Koichiro Inomata (Dr. Nobuki Tezuksa)		Department of Materials Science, Tohoku University,Sendai
3.	Prof. Koki Takanashi (Dr. S. Mitani)		Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, Sendai
4.	Prof. Masaaki Tanaka (Dr. Satoshi Sugahara)		Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo
5.	Dr. Junsaku Nitta		Materials Research Laboratory, NTT Basic Research, Laboratories
6.	Dr. Yoshishige Suzuki (Dr. Ashwin Tulapurkar)		Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
7.	Prof. Hiroo Munekata*		Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology
8.	Dr Yoshiaki Saito		Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corporation
9.	Prof. Teruo Ono		Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
10.	Prof.Koji Ando		Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
11.	Prof. Shinji Yuasa		Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
12.	Professor Miyajima (Dr. Eiji Saitoh)		Department of Physics, Keio University
13.	Dr. Gen Tatara (Prof. Hiroshi Kohno)		Osaka University, Graduate School of Science

 

UK/EU :

1.	Dr. Yongbing Xu	...	University of York, UK
2.	Dr. Sarah Thompson		University of York, UK
3.	Prof. Mike Coey		Trinity College, Ireland
4.	Prof. Tony Bland* (Dr. Atsufumi Hirohata)		Cambridge University, UK
5.	Prof. Bryan Gallagher		Nottingham University, UK
6.	Prof. Gillian Gehring		Sheffield University, UK
7.	Prof. Gerrit Van der Laan		Daresbury Laboratory, UK
8.	Prof. David Edwards		Imperial College, UK
9.	Dr. David Williams		Hitachi, Cambridge, UK
10.	Dr. Stuart Holmes		Toshiba, Cambridge, UK
11.	Prof. A. Fert (Dr. Pierre Seneor)		CNRS/THALES, France
12.	Dr. Willem Van Roy		IMEC, Belgium
13.	Prof. C. Lodder* (Dr. Ronnie Jansen)		University of Twente, The Netherlands
14.	Prof. Tomasz Dietl *(Dr. Maciej Sawicki)		Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
15.	Prof. Gerrit Bauer		Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

USA

1.	Prof. David Awschalom	...	Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2.	Dr. Stuart Parkin		IBM-Stanford
3.	Dr. B. T. Jonker (Dr. Connie Li )		Naval Research Laboratory

China

1.	Prof. Rong Zhang	...	Nanjing University
2.	Prof. Zhizhen Ye		Zhejiang University
3.	Dr. Ke Xia		Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Australia

1.

Prof. Robert Stamps

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University of Western Australia

 

COMMON LANGUAGE:

Presentations and discussions are in English. No interpreter is provided.

 

REGISTRATIONS:

The registration fees: The fee is Y35,000 for general participants or Y15,000 for
students and no registration fee for invited speakers and organisers. Spouses/partners are
welcome to all the social events at a reduced registration fee of Y13,000. The
registration fee is inclusive of the following: one pre-print volume per delegate,
Welcome Reception on Wednesday 1st, Conference Dinner on Friday 3rd, lunches, tea
and coffee during breaks and drinks after or before dinner.

How to register: Please choose an appropriate form from 3 forms for the invited
speakers/ organisers, residents in Japan and residents in overseas countries, and then
send the completed one to Dr Saito at the Kobe Institute by e-mail preferably or fax by
16 August 2004.

DEADLINES:
  10th August: deadline for abstracts for inclusion in the pre-print volume
  16th August: deadline for registration forms
  1st September: registration and reception at the Institute
  1st November: Full manuscript

 

CONTACT ADDRESSES:

Dr. Yongbing Xu,
Spintronics Laboratory, Department of Electronics, The University of York
York YO10 5DD, UK
Tel: +44-1904-432349
E-mail: yx2@ohm.york.ac.uk URL: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~yx2/

Prof. Hideo Ohno,
Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics Research
Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Tel: +81-22-217-5553
E-mail: ohno@riec.tohoku.ac.jp URL: http://www.ohno.riec.tohoku.ac.jp

Dr Kaizaburo Saito
Chief Bursar, St. Catherine's College (University of Oxford) Kobe Institute
53-1, Maruyama, Gomo-aza, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657- 0801 Japan
Tel: +81-78-881-2277 Fax: +81-78-881-2552
E-mail: kaizas@kobeinst.com URL: http://www.kobeinst.com

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