PHASE TRANSITIONS IN MATERIALS
Honoring the 70th birthday of Prof. Antoni Planes
Barcelona, September 22, 2023
Aula Magna Enric Casassas, Facultat de Física UB
9.30-9.45 Welcome. Xavier Batlle (Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, UB)
9.45-10.30 Lluís Mañosa (UB). Toni: The Quiet Wisdom.
10.30-10.50 Coffee Break.
10.50-11.20 Avadh Saxena (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US). A mesoscopic peregrination through phase transitions: Ferroics, multiferroics and beyond.
11.20-11.50 Mehmet Acet (Duisburg Essen Universität, Germany). Magnetism of Ni-Mnbased functional Heuslers.
11.50-12.20 Ekhard Salje (University of Cambridge, UK). Progress in Avalanche Research.
12.20-12.40 Jordi Marcos (CELLS-ALBA). ALBA Synchrotron: past, present and future of
Catalonia’s Synchrotron Light Source.
12.40-13.00 Marcel Porta (UB). Comparison between elastocaloric and flexocaloric effects in shape memory alloys.
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.00 Xavier Moya (University of Cambridge, UK). Ferroelectric materials and devices.
15.00-15.20 Jordi Ortín (UB). In the beginning, there was the thermodynamics of hysteresis.
15.20-15.40 Pol Lloveras (UPC). Disorder as a source of colossal barocaloric effects.
15.40-16.00 Coffee Break.
16.00-16.20 Carlos Frontera (ICMAB). Spin Hall magnetoresistance in La2CoMnO6/Pt
bilayers and the role of magnetic interface.
16.20-16.50 Francisco José Pérez-Reche (University of Aberdeen, UK). Power-law and lognormal avalanche size statistics in solids and living cells.
16.50-17.20 Eduard Vives (UB). Labquakes: scale invariance, power-laws and double powerlaws.
17.20-17.50 Online contributions.
17.50-18.00 Closing.