Albert Fert, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2007, participates in the 10th International Workshop on Nanomagnetism and Superconductivity at the Nanoscale
Around fifty international experts analyse the most modern scientific advances in the field of molecular magnetism, superconductivity, spintronics and similar areas on the 10th edition of the International Workshop on Nanomagnetism and Superconductivity at the Nanoscale, an annual scientific meeting that takes place every summer in Comarruga (Tarragona).
Around fifty international experts analyse the most modern scientific advances in the field of molecular magnetism, superconductivity, spintronics and similar areas on the 10th edition of the International Workshop on Nanomagnetism and Superconductivity at the Nanoscale, an annual scientific meeting that takes place every summer in Comarruga (Tarragona).
The international meeting takes place from 30 June to 4 Juliol at the Hotel Vita Comarruga. The organising committee is headed by Javier Tejada, professor from the Department of Fundamental Physics of UB, and composed by professors Antoni García Santiago and Joan Manel Hernàndez, members of the former department, and experts Eugene M. Chudnovsky (City University of New York, USA) and Valerii Vinokur (Argonne National Laboratory, USA).
This year, the plenary speech is pronounced by Professor Albert Fert, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007 together with Peter Grünberg for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR), a scientific find that has enabled to develop a new generation of sensors and electronic devices. The session headed by Albert Fert, scientific director of the Mix Unit for Physics at CNRS/ Thales (France), takes place on Thursday 3 July at 9 a.m.
The International Workshop on Nanomagnetism and Superconductivity at the Nanoscale was born ten years ago. Javier Tejada, professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona, organises the meeting. Tejada is expert on magnetism and the study of quantum effects on magnetism and superconductivity through microwaves and high-frequency acoustic waves. In 1996, he received an honorary doctorate from the City University of New York. He directs the UBX Laboratory (UB-Xerox) and the Experimental Magnetism Research Group of UB. He was the first Spanish physicist to discover a new phenomenon: resonant tunnelling spin in molecular magnets (Physical Review Letters, 1996), considering Eudgene Chudnovskyʼs theories on quantum tunnellingofmagnetization. This scientific find, achieved by UB Experimental Magnetism Research Group together with groups from the City University of New York and the company Xerox, was recognised as one of the most important 20th century scientific finds in spin, according to the monograph Milestones in Spin published by the prestigious journal Nature in 2008.