ICM2024 is proud to announce the Focus Symposia, special sessions based on Invited talks and reflecting the hottest topics proposed by the magnetism community.

Altermagnetism

Chairs: Ryotaro Arita University of Tokyo, Jairo Sinova Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Igor Mazin George Mason University

Speakers:

Tomas Jungwirth, Institute of Physics Czech Academy of Sciences, Cz
Anna Hellenes, University of Mainz, Germany
Hikaru Watanabe, University of Tokyo, Japan
Rafael Fernandes, University of Minnesota, USA
Sayantika Bhowal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Nonequilibrium orbital magnetism towards Orbitronics

Chairs: Pietro Gambardella ETH Zürich, Dongwook Go Forschungszentrum Jülich

Speakers:

Tatiana G. Rappoport, University of Minho, PT
Kyung-Jin Lee,  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR
Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Università di Salerno, Italy
Federico Mazzola University of Venice, Italy

Strange metals in strongly correlated electron systems

Chairs: Silke Buehler-Paschen TU Vienna, Qimiao Si Rice University

Speakers:

Haoyu Hu Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
Todadri Senthil MIT, USA
Kazushi Kanoda MPI Stuttgart and University of Tokyo
Diana M. Kirschbaum TU Wien, Austria
Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University, USA

Recent advances in superconductivity

Chairs: Vidya Madhavan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jinguang Cheng Chinese Academy of Science

Speakers:

Xianhui Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
Ziqiang Wang, Boston College, USA
Priscilla Rosa, LANL, USA
Harold Hwang, Stanford University, USA

Magnetism in the age of AI

Chairs: Thomas Schrefl-Danube University Krem and Dagmar Goll Aalen University

Speakers:

Gerhard Schneider, Aalen University, DE
Tadakatsu Ohkubo, National Institute for Materials Science(NIMS), Japan
Heike Herper, Uppsala University, SE
Nicola Morley, University of Sheffield, UK
Arbaaz  Khan, McGill University, Canada

 

The role of magnetism and magnetic materials in the energy transition

Chair: Oliver Gutfleisch TU Darmstadt

Magnetism and Spintronics at the 2D/Interface Frontier

Chairs: Pierre Seneor CNRS/Thales

Spins and Chirality

Chairs: Sang-Wook Cheong Rutgers University, Roberta Sessoli University of Florence

Speakers:

TAKUYA SATOH Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
RICCARDO COMIN MIT, USA
Magalí Lingenfelder EPFL, Switzerland
Alessandro Stroppa CNR-SPIN, Italy

Strain, texture, and flexure in magnetic architectures

Chairs: Denys Makarov HZRD Germany, Massimiliano Marangolo INSP France and Gaspare Varvaro CNR-ISM Italy

Speakers:

Alexander Edström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Oliver Gutfleisch, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Carmine Ortix, Salerno University , Italy

Frontiers in Magnonics

Chairs: Hans Huebl Walther-Meissner-Institut and Andrii Chumak University of Vienna

Speakers:

Toeno van der Sar Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tomosato Hioki University of Tokyo, Japan
Philipp Pirro Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität, DE
Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy Institute for Theoretical Condensed Matter, Aachen, DE
Jian-Qiang You  Zhejiang University, China