1. Date:

February 15th(Thu.) - 16th(Fri.), 2007

2. Place:

Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (Access map)

3. Scope:

This workshop is organized to cover the recent advances in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions showing giant tunneling magnetoresistance ratio and current- induced magnetization switching. Related physics as well as device issues will also be covered. A number of top researchers working in this field are invited from all over the world to have a comprehensive view of what is happening in this field.

4. Confirmed Invited Speakers :

M. Coey (Univ. of Dublin, Ireland) A. Deac (Osaka Univ., Japan) J. Hayakawa (Hitachi Ltd., Japan) Y. Huai (Grandis Inc., U.S.A.) K. Inomata (National Inst. for Materials Science, Japan) Y. M. Lee (Tohoku Univ., Japan) S. H. Lim (Korea Univ., Korea) J. Mathon (City Univ. London, UK) M. Oogane (Tohoku Univ., Japan) S. Parkin (Almaden Research Center, IBM, USA) J. Read (Cornell Univ. USA) K. H. Shin (Korea Inst. of Science and Tech., Korea) M. Shirai (Tohoku Univ., Japan) J. Sun (Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM, USA) K. Tsunekawa (Canon Anelva Corp. Japan) M. Tsunoda (Tohoku Univ., Japan) M. Yamamoto (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) S. Yuasa (National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech., Japan)

5. Program (Tentative)	Program file (pdf, 48kB) (Update:25/Jan./2006)
6. Registration Required:	Send your name, affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses to Ms. Noriko Sato (nsato@riec.tohoku.ac.jp)

7. Registration Fee:

Free of charge

8. Contact:

Hideo Ohno Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan, ohno@riec.tohoku.ac.jp

9. Organization / Support:

RIEC Tohoku University (Organization & Support) Professional Group of Spinelectronics, JSAP (Support) IT-Program of RR2002 from MEXT (Support)

10. Link:

ATI International Workshop and IFCAM International Workshop on Spin Current February 19-20, 2007 IFCAM, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku Univ.