Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I would like to inform you about the coming-soon tours of the distinguished lectures (DLs) of the IEEE Magnetics Society in Spain. I know that many of you have expressed your interest to host DLs, however, they have tough schedules and will visit limited places. I would like to apologize to those of you who expressed their interests to host them, but finally they cannot do this.

Also taking the opportunity, it is my pleasure to announce that for 2016 for the first time in history we will have a Spanish magnetician selected as DL, Pep Foncuberta. I would like to express my sincere congratulations to Pep.

The DLs tours (the abstract can be found below):

1) Prof. Ludwig Schultz IFW Dresden, Institute of Metallic Materials TU Dresden, Institute of Materials Science

Interaction of ferromagnetic and superconducting permanent magnets - superconducting levitation

- September, 3 Zaragoza, 12:30 en la Sala de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias / Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, host - Fernando Bartolomé

- September, 4 Pamplona, INAMAT, 12:00. Jerónimo de Ayanz (Sala Multiusos), host – Cristina Gómez-Polo

- September, 7 Madrid, Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado 11:00, host-Antonio Hernando and M.A.García

- September, 8 Madrid, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco de la UAM, Salón de Actos, 12:00, host- Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko and Manuel Vázquez

- September, 9 Madrid, INTA, host-Marina Díaz Michelena

- September, 10 Bilbao, host Manuel Barandiaran

- September, 11 San Sebastián, Nanogune, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, 11:00, host-Ansreas Berger

2) Prof Russell Cowburn Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy: from ultralow power spintronics to cancer therapy

- September 8 Madrid, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco de la UAM, Salón de Actos, 10:00, host- Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko and Manuel Vázquez

- September 9 Barcelona, Faculty of Physics (Eduard Fontsere Lecture Hall) University of Barcelona, 15:00, host- Xavier Batlle

3) Prof. Bethanie Stadler ECE Department, University of Minnesota

Magnetic Nanowires: Revolutionizing Hard Drives, RAM, and Cancer Treatment

- September 30 Madrid, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco de la UAM, Salón de Actos, 12:00, host- Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko and Manuel Vázquez

Best regards,

Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko

President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society

Abstracts:

Ludwig Shultz

Interaction of ferromagnetic and superconducting permanent magnets - superconducting levitation

New means of urban transportation and logistics will become realistic with superconducting magnetic bearings using bulk high temperature superconductors. The advantage of super¬con-ducting magnetic levitation is that it works passively stable without any electronic control but with attracting and repelling forces to suspend a vehicle pendant or standing upright from zero to high speed - perfect conditions for the idea of rail-bound individual transport with cabins for 4 - 5 passengers requested call by call. They will levitate noiseless over the track made of RE permanent magnets saving energy and travel time. A big step forward to this vision has been made in Dresden. The world largest research and test facility for transport systems using HTS bulk material in the levitation and guidance system in combination with a permanent magnet track was put into operation. A vehicle for 2 passengers, equipped with linear drive propulsion, non-contact energy supply, second braking system and various test and measurement systems is running on an 80 m long oval driveway. In the presentation the principle of superconducting levitation by flux pinning in high temperature supercon¬ductors will be described. Based on this an overview of the SupraTrans II research facility and future directions of super¬conductivity-based magnetic levitation and bearing for automation technology, transportation and medical treatment under enhanced gravity will be given.

2) Prof Russell Cowburn

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy: from ultralow power spintronics to cancer therapy

Most thin magnetic films have their magnetization lying in the plane of the film because of shape anisotropy. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in thin magnetic films which exhibit a magnetization easy axis along the surface normal due to so-called Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy (PMA). PMA has its origins in the symmetry breaking which occurs at surfaces and interfaces and can be strong enough to dominate the magnetic properties of some material systems. In this talk I explain the physics of such materials and show how the magnetic properties associated with PMA are often very well suited to applications. I show three different examples of real and potential applications of PMA materials: ultralow power STT-MRAM memory devices for green computing, 3-dimensional magnetic logic structures and a novel cancer therapy.

3) Prof. Bethanie Stadler ECE Department,

University of Minnesota

Magnetic Nanowires: Revolutionizing Hard Drives, RAM, and Cancer Treatment

Magnetic nanowires can have many names: bits, sensors, heads, artificial cilia, sensors, and nano-bots. These applications require nanometer control of dimensions, while incorporating various metals and alloys. To realize this control, 7- to 200-nm diameter nanowires are synthesized within insulating matrices by direct electrochemistry. Our nanowires can easily have lengths 10,000x their diameters, and they are often layered with magnetic and non-magnetic metals as required by each application. This talk will reveal synthesis secrets for nm-control of layer thicknesses, even for difficult alloys, which has enabled studies of magnetization reversal, magneto-elasticity, giant magnetoresistance, and spin transfer torque switching. These nanowires will mitigate the ITRS Roadmap’s “Size Effect” Grand Challenge which identifies the high resistivities in small interconnects as a barrier to continued progress along Moore’s Law (or better). High magnetoresistance is also possible in other multilayered nanowires that exhibit excellent properties for mulit-level nonvolatile random access memory. If the insulating growth matrix is etched away, the nanowires resemble a magnetic bed of nano-seaweed which enables microfluidic flow sensors and vibration sensors. Finally, we have incubated various nanowires with several healthy and cancerous cell lines, and find that they are readily internalized. Careful magnetic design of these “nano-bots” enables external steering, nano-barcode identification, and several modes of therapy.