1st International Spring School on

McPhase

• a Software Suite for Complex Magnetism

Gijón

May 10 - 13, 2011

The first international school on McPhase (a software suite for calculating magnetic/orbital phase diagrams and excitations: www.mcphase.de) was held at the University of Oviedo, in Gijon on May 10-13, 2011. This school was oriented mainly for PhD students or young investigators.

The general scheme of the school was dealing with fundamental and applied aspects of d and f elements. The school was organized in two main sessions: on the mornings introductory talks on different subjects were given (exchange interactions, crystal field anisotropy, high order interactions,..); while the afternoons were concentrated on practical sessions using the McPhase software suite .

The Symposium comprised invited lectures from distinguished scientists on the field, oral presentations and poster presentations. The Symposium's official language was English.

Symposium Organizer: J.A. Blanco, M. Rotter and P. Gorria

University of Oviedo · Spain

Topics

• Magnetic properties (magnetization, susceptibility, specific heat, H-T phase diagrams,..)

• Magnetic and higher order interactions (crystal field effects, exchange interactions –anisotropic and multipolar)

• Excitations and Neutron Spectroscopy

• Crystal fields

• Magnetic order and phase diagrams

• Magnetic interactions

• Spin waves and other magnetic excitations

• Orbital order and excitations

• Neutron scattering

Speakers

• Andrew Boothroyd (Oxford)

• Jesus A. Blanco (Oviedo)

• Jens Jensen (Copenhagen)

• Jon Goff (London)

• Luigi Paolasini (Grenoble)

• Toby Perring (ISIS, Didcot)

• D. T. Adroja (ISIS, Didcot)

• Keith McEwen (London)

• Martin Rotter (Dresden)

• Duc Manh Le (Berlin)

• Andrea Severing (Cologne)

• Michael Loewenhaupt (Dresden)

• Mohamed Zbiri (Grenoble)

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