Program

October 5

• 8.00-9.00: Registration
• 9.00-9.15: Welcome and opening remarks
• 9.15-10.00: Plenary talk: Albert Fert
• 10.00-10.30: Break

Topological insulators: Spin torque and spin pumping

• 10.30-11.00: Nitin Samarth, Topological spintronics
• 11.00-11.30: Hyunsoo Yang, Spin dynamics in Bi₂Se₃/ferromagnet heterostructures
• 11.30-12.00: Aurelien Manchon, Theory of spin-orbit torques and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

• 12.00-13.30: Lunch

Topological insulators: Current-induced nonequilibrium spins

• 13.30-14.00: Yong P. Chen, Electrically generated spin polarization in topological insulators: Where are the spins from?
• 14.00-14.30: Masashi Shiraishi, Electrical detection of surface spin polarization due to spin­-momentum locking in BiSbTeSe
• 14.30-15.00: Break

Topological insulators: Spin torque and spin pumping

• 15.00-15.30: Yuki Shiomi, Spin pumping experiments in topological insulators and skyrmion crystals
• 15.30-16.00: Thorsten Hesjedal
• 16.30-17.00: Farzad Mahfouzi, Spin-orbit torques and spin pumping in lateral and vertical topological-insulator/ferromagnet heterostructures