INVITED SPEAKERS

Confirmed

J.M.D. COEY, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Talk 1. New materials for Spin Electronics.
Talk 2. Magnetic semiconductors, half-metals and semimetals.

H. A. DAVIES, Sheffield, UK.
Talk. The influence of processing, composition, phase structure and temperature on the magnetic characteristics of nanophase RE-Fe-B alloys.

D. FIORANI, ICMAT, CNR, Rome, Italy.
Talks: Surface and exchange anisotropy in nanogranular Fe/Feoxide system.

A. J. FREEMAN, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3112, USA.
OPENING LECTURE: An Electron's View of Magnetism at the Nano-scale:
Modern Theory/Modeling/Simulation.

J. GONZALEZ, UPV, San Sebastian, Spain.
Talk. Stress and/or field induced magnetic anisotropies in Co and Fe Finemet-type
amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys.

P. GORRIA, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. 
Talks. Structure and Magnetism of some nanostructured Fe based metastable alloys:
I. In-situ neutron thermodiffraction.
II. Magnetic behavior.

A. A. GRANOVSKY, Moscow State University, Russia. 
Talk . Microwave and infrared tunnel magnetoresistance in magnetic nanocomposites.

R. GROSSINGER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Talk 1. The physics of nanocrystalline hard magnetic materials.
Talk 2. Structural methods for studying nanocrystalline materials.

A. HERNANDO, RENFE-UCM, Madrid, Spain. 
Talk 1.Spin waves in ribbon shaped Fe nanoparticles.
Talk 2. Ferromagnetism in Pd nanoparticles.

G. HERZER, Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG, Hanau, Germany.
Talk 1. The random anisotropy model - a critical review and update.
Talk 2. Nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloys.

M. KNOBEL, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil.
Talk 1. Effects of dipolar interactions on magnetic properties of granular solids.
Talk 2. Tunnel magnetoresistance and giant Hall effect in nanocomposites.

K. KUMAGAI, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Talk. NMR studies of molecular nano-magnets.

E. MARINERO, Hitachi San Jose Research Center, USA.
Talk 1. Nanostructured Magnetic Materials.
Talk 2. Spintronic Devices for Information Storage.

M. NOVAK, IF-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Talk. Relaxation in magnetic nanostructures.

M. VAZQUEZ, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Talk 1. Preparation and magnetic properties of arrays of Ni nanowires in Alumina
membranes.
Talk 2. Multilayer microwires: tailoring magnetic behavior by sputtering and electroplating.

E. VOGEL, UFRO, Temuco, Chile. 
Talk. Simulations on arrays of magnetic nanowires.

A . ZUKHOV, UPV, San Sebastian, Spain.
Talk 1. Magnetoresistance in thin wires with granular structure.
Talk 2. Recent research on magnetic properties of glass-coated microwires.

Non confirmed

D. GIVORD, Laboratoire Louis Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, France.
Talk 1. Magnetization processes at the Nanoscale.
Talk 2. Properties of exchange-coupled nanosystems.

G.C. HADJIPANAYIS, University of Delaware, USA.