Organisers

• Ilja Turek (Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
• Josef Kudrnovsky (Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague)
• Patrick BRUNO (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle)

Supports

 Psi-k

 Marie Curie Actions - Psi-k Training

Description

The purpose of the Summer School is to provide a qualified overview on the rapidly developing areas of spintronics, magnetoelectronics and nanomagnetism. The lectures will be oriented on last year PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the field of ab initio electronic structure theory. Attention will be paid not only to theoretical backgrounds and latest results, but also to other aspects of the field, such as possible future development and technological applications. Most of the school topics will be covered by experts in the community of first-principles electronic structure calculations, to which majority of the participants will probably belong. However, the theoretical lectures will be followed by experimental ones wherever possible.

Scientific Objectives

The scientific scope will include important topics,
such as half-metals and diluted magnetic semiconductors, hybrid systems, spin-dependent transport properties, effects of finite temperatures, spin dynamics, magnetism of nanostructures, relativistic effects, and electron correlations.

References

More details about the Summer School (including programme, details of registration and payment) can be found on the website http://cmd.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/Spintronics-2008/