Symposium Program October 2, 2009

October 2, 2009
Embassy Suites Hotel Lincoln
(Room: Regents A)

8:45 a.m.          Registration
Morning Session Chair: Shireen Adenwalla
9:00 a.m. Lorentz TEM Studies of Domain Behavior in Magnetic Nanostructures
Amanda Petford-Long, Argonne National Laboratory
9:50 a.m. Electronic Structure of Single Crystal Magnetostrictive Fe1-xGax Films
Yves Idzerda, Montana State University
10:40 a.m. Coffee Break
11:10 a.m. Magnetic Nonvolatile Memories in the Context of Other Emerging Nonvolatile Memory Technologies
William J. Gallagher, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
12:00 p.m. Lunch / External Advisory Board Meeting (Chancellor Room)
Afternoon Session Chair: Christian Binek
1:30 a.m. Synthesis, Colloidal Stability, and Magnetic Properties of Nanoparticles for Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia
Carlos Rinaldi, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez
2:20 p.m. Exploring the Science of Hybrid Nanostructure Materials by Terahertz to Ultraviolet Generalized Ellipsometry
Mathias Schubert, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
3:10 p.m. Coffee Break
3:40 p.m. New Functionalities with Multiferroics: Electric Field Control of Magnetism
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California - Berkeley
4:30 p.m. Symposium Conclusion