PSI Condensed Matter Retreat 2018 @ EMPA

Europe/Zurich
Damaris Tartarotti Maimone, Henrik Till Lemke, Simon Gerber (Paul Scherrer Institut), Urs Staub (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Description
To exchange ideas and to foster networking between young researchers in condensed matter at PSI, in particular between those using neutrons, muons &photons. I.e. mainly – but not exclusively – from LNS, LMU, LDM, LMX, LSM, LSC, LMN, LAP and LNO.
  • Tuesday 13 November
    • 08:30 09:00
      Welcome Coffee & Registration 30m
    • 09:00 09:30
      Welcome to EMPA 30m
      Speaker: Dr Pierangelo Gröning (EMPA)
    • 09:30 10:30
      Facilities: Overview & highlights
      • 09:30
        SLS facility update 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Frithjof Nolting (Paul Scherrer Institut)
      • 09:45
        SwissFEL facility update 15m
        Speaker: Dr Henrik Till Lemke
      • 10:00
        SINQ facility update 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Michel Kenzelmann (Paul Scherrer Institut)
      • 10:15
        SµS facility update 15m
        Speaker: Dr Alex Amato (Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 12:00
      Ultrafast x-ray science 1h
      Speaker: Prof. Massimo Altarelli
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:00 13:30
      Flash talks: Even posters
    • 13:30 14:30
      Contributed talks: Session 1
      • 13:30
        Ultrafast charge localization in a valence fluctuating Eu-based material 20m
        Speaker: Dr José Renato Linares Mardegan
      • 13:50
        Ultrafast Mott transition in V2O3 by terahertz electric-field driven tunneling 20m
        Speaker: Dr Flavio Giorgianni
      • 14:10
        Orbital dynamics during the laser induced insulator to metal transition 20m
        Speaker: Dr Sergii Parchenko
    • 14:30 15:30
      Coffee poster session (even #’s) 1h
    • 15:30 16:30
      Contributed talks: Session 2
      • 15:30
        Time-resolved imaging of magnetic skyrmion and domain wall dynamics 20m
        Speaker: Dr Simone Finizio
      • 15:50
        Damping modulation in magnetic thin films 20m
        Speaker: Dr Susmita Saha (ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 16:10
        Using POLDI as a tool for the development of advanced materials 20m
        Speaker: Dr Jan Capek
    • 16:30 17:00
      What's next - future perspectives 30m
      Speaker: Prof. Christian Rüegg (Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 17:00 17:30
      Flash talks: Odd posters
    • 17:30 20:00
      Poster session (odd #’s) 2h 30m
    • 18:30 20:00
      Apéro riche 1h 30m
  • Wednesday 14 November
    • 08:30 09:00
      Welcome Coffee 30m
    • 09:00 10:00
      Contributed talks: Session 3
      • 09:00
        Temperature vs pressure phase diagram of FeSe1-xSx investigated by µSR 20m
        Speaker: Mr Stefan Patrick Holenstein
      • 09:20
        Electron-phonon coupling and polaronic effects in the bismuthate high-Tc superconductors 20m
        Speaker: Dr Muntaser Naamneh (PSI)
      • 09:40
        Signatures of the topological s+− superconducting order parameter in the type-II Weyl semimetal Td-MoTe2 20m
        Speaker: Dr Zurab Guguchia (Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 11:30
      Facilities: Upgrade flash talks
      • 10:30
        Using nuclear spins to probe and tune quantum magnets 7m
        Speaker: Dr Markus Müller
      • 10:37
        CAMEA - A novel neutron spectrometer for extreme environment investigations 7m
        Speaker: Mr Jakob Lass
      • 10:44
        New perspectives in materials discovery with recently purchased high temperature, high pressure floating zone crystal growth setup 7m
        Speaker: Dr Ekaterina Pomjakushina (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 10:51
        Complex sample environment at SINQ 7m
        Speaker: Dr Marek Bartkowiak (Paul Scherrer Institut)
      • 10:58
        The new SµS instrument FLAME 7m
        Speaker: Dr Hubertus Luetkens (Paul Scherrer Institut)
      • 11:05
        Recent and future RIXS upgrades at the Swiss Light Source 7m
        Speaker: Dr Thorsten Schmitt (Paul Scherrer Institut)
      • 11:12
        Furka, the future experimental station for condensed matter and quantum materials at Athos SwissFEL 7m
        Speaker: Dr Cristian Svetina
      • 11:19
        The ATHOS endstation for atomic, molecular and optical sciences 7m
        Speaker: Dr Kirsten Andrea Schnorr
    • 11:30 12:30
      Contributed talks: Session 4
      • 11:30
        Ultrafast reversal of the ferroelectric polarization 20m
        Speaker: Dr Roman Mankowsky
      • 11:50
        Element specific XUV transient grating spectroscopy 20m
        Speaker: Dr Rok Bohinc (Paul Scherrer Institute)
      • 12:10
        Ultrafast demagnetization of an iron-nickel composite probed with a single 2-color XFEL shot 20m
        Speaker: Dr Benedikt Rösner
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 14:30
      Contributed talks: Session 5
      • 13:30
        Lasing in highly strained Ge microbridges 20m
        Speaker: Mr Francesco Taro Armand Pilon
      • 13:50
        Switching properties of photomagnetic molecular cubes: from thick films towards adsorbed monolayers 20m
        Speaker: Dr Niéli Daffé (Paul Scherrer Institut)
      • 14:10
        Coherent quantum degrees of freedom in rare earth fluorides 20m
        Speaker: Mr Manuel Grimm
    • 14:30 15:00
      Coffe Break 30m
    • 15:00 16:00
      Contributed talks: Session 6
      • 15:00
        Dimensional reduction in BaCuSi2O6 investigated by neutron scattering 20m
        Speaker: Mr Stephan Allenspach
      • 15:20
        Multiferroicity in CoFe2O4-SrTiO3 self-assembled thin films 20m
        Speaker: Dr Laura Maurel Velàzquez
      • 15:40
        Exploring the electron transfer at cuprate/manganite interfaces with X-ray Linear Dichroism (XLD) 20m
        Speaker: Ms Roxana Gaina
    • 16:00 16:10
      Flowers & poster prize 10m