1st early-career event on "Theme: SpinMaD Flash Talks for Early Career Researchers at Intermag 2026"

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Schedule: 13 / April / 2026; start 18:30 / end 20:00
Venue: Exchange 9; Manchester Exchange

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Theme

1st early-career event on “SpinMaD Flash Talks for Early Career Researchers at Intermag 2026”

Description

This is an open event to present 3 min. talks by early career researchers, including students and post-docs, of our project and to network beyond. The best presentation award will be selected by judges.

Organizers

: Tom Thomson

: Atsufumi Hirohata

Travel

Access: Details in PDF

Program

13 / April / 2026

18:30: Introduction to the SpinMad project and flash talks

Flash talk session:

1st

Speaker: Yoichi Shiota

Affiliation: Associate professor, Kyoto University

Start Time: 18:35

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Perpendicular Magnetization in Sputtered YIG Thin Films for Spin Wave Propagation and Spin-Orbit Torque Switching

Slide

2nd

Speaker: Nur Amirah Binti Zahrin

Affiliation: PhD student, Kyushu University

Start Time: 18:38

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Substrate-Dependent Magnetic Damping Constant in Weyl Semimetal Co₂MnGa Thin Films

Slide

3rd

Speaker: Varun Kumar Kushwaha

Affiliation: Assistant professor, Tohoku University

Start Time: 18:41

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Spin-Pumping-Induced Spin Accumulation in Microfabricated Pt/CoFe/n-GaAs Heterostructure

Slide

4th

Speaker: Masayuki Ishida

Affiliation: PhD student, University of Tokyo

Start Time: 18:44

Duration: 3min.

Title: Magnetic-Proximity-Modulated Spin–Charge Conversion in Ferromagnetic Metal Fe/Topological Dirac Semimetal α-Sn Heterostructures

Slide

5th

Speaker: Benjamin Brereton

Affiliation: PhD student, University of Leeds

Start Time: 18:47

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Topological Insulator - Magnetic Multilayer Heterostructures for Spin-Orbit Torques

Slide

6th

Speaker: Shigemi Terakawa

Affiliation: Assistant professor, University of Osaka

Start Time: 18:50

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Proximity-Induced Magnetic Anisotropy and Interface States of Monolayer FeCl₂ on Bi(111)

Slide

7th

Speaker: Ivan Kurniawan

Affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, NIMS

Start Time: 18:53

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Surface-States-Driven Tunnel Magnetoresistance in hcp-Co/h-BN/hcp-Co Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Slide

8th

Speaker: Ryunosuke Hirama

Affiliation: PhD student, Tohoku University

Start Time: 18:56

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Epitaxial Metallic Buffer Layers for FeAlSi toward High-Sensitivity Magnetic Sensors Using Superparamagnetic Tunnel Junctions

Slide

9th

Speaker: Soki Yoshida

Affiliation: PhD student, Nagoya University

Start Time: 18:59

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Growth temperature dependent anomalous Nernst effect in FePd thin films on SrTiO₃ (001) substrates

Slide

10th

Speaker: Hisakazu Matsuki

Affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Kyoto University

Start Time: 19:02

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Realization of de Gennes’ Absolute Superconducting Switch with a Heavy Metal Interface

Slide

11th

Speaker: Shogo Yamashita

Affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

Start Time: 19:05

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Ab initio Study of Magnetic and Transport Properties of Fully Compensated Ferrimagnetic Heusler Alloys at Finite Temperatures

Slide

12th

Speaker: Esita Pandey

Affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

Start Time: 19:08

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Broadly Tunable Compensation in Ferrimagnetic MnFeVAl Heusler Alloy Thin Film

Slide

13th

Speaker: Hiroki Koizumi

Affiliation: Assistant professor, University of Tsukuba

Start Time: 19:11

Duration: 3 min.

Title: Voltage Effect of CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB Tunnel Junction Using a Decelerated Scanning Electron Beam

Slide

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Food & Drinks to be served 19:00-20:00 (60min.)

19:50: Announcement of the Prize(s)

Judges:

Stéphane Mangin (Université de Lorraine)
Robert Carpenter (IMEC)
Christopher Marrows (University of Leeds)
Vincent Baltz (Spintec)
Teruo Ono (Kyoto University)
Le Duc Anh (University of Tokyo)
Joseph Barker (University of Leeds)
Atsufumi Hirohata (Tohoku University/Max Planck Institute/Université de Lorraine)

Contact

Participating
institutions

Project partners

Japanese Investigators

Prof. Atsufumi Hirohata: Center for Science and Innovation in Spintronics Tohoku >University; Phone: +81 (0)22 217 6129 | Fax: +81 (0)22 217 5426; E-mail:; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Masaaki Tanaka: Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Teruo Ono: Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Kazuyuki Sakamoto: Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Yukio Nozaki: Department of Physics, Keio University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Masaki Mizuguchi: Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Yoshinobu Nakaani: Department of Computer and Network Engineering, University of Electro-Communications; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Seiji Mitani: Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials, National Institute for Materials Science; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Shinji Yuasa: Research Center for Emerging Computing Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; Homepage | Facility

European Co-Investigators

Prof. Claudia Felser: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Mathias Weiler: Department of Physics, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Mathias Kläui: Department of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Vincent Baltz: Spintec, France; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Stéphane Mangin: Department of Physics, Université de Lorraine, France; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Giovanni Finocchio: Department of Scicence, Mathematics and Information, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Thomas Thomson: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Christopher Marrows: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Homepage | Facility

Dr Robert Carpenter: Imec, Belgium; Homepage | Facility

Japanese Collaborators

Prof. Masafumi Shirai: Research Institute of Electrical Communications, Tohoku University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Shigemi Mizukami: Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Mikihiko Oogane: Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Yoshiaki Saito: Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, Tohoku University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Takeshi Seki: Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Sadamichi Maekawa: Center for Emergent Matter Science, Riken (National Research and Development Agency); Homepage | Facility

Prof. Koki Takanashi: Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency; Homepage | Facility

Prof. Hiromi Yuasa: Advanced Science Research Center, Kyushu University; Homepage | Facility