Symposia Sessions

Altermagnetism: Superconductivity and P-Wave Magnets

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Altermagnetism is leading to new understanding of superconductivity and p-wave magnets. This symposium will showcase both fundamental and applied research in altermagnetism as well as interfacing altermagnets with superconductors, conventional magnets, and others.

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Beyond the Limits: Next-Generation Innovations in Hard Disk Drive Technology

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This symposium highlights emerging concepts that push beyond conventional limits of magnetic recording, featuring advances in HAMR technology as well as introducing new architectures, materials and designs. We invite contributed talks that explore novel head and media materials, recording physics, and system-level innovations that enable next-generation high-capacity data storage.

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Exploring the Effects of Reduced Dimensionality on Frustrated Quantum Magnets

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Competing interactions in frustrated magnetic systems can generate highly degenerate ground states from which correlated, liquid like phases of matter may emerge. How this degeneracy scales is central to determining the ultimate ground state, with dimensionality playing a crucial role in shaping the outcome. This symposium welcomes experimental and theoretical contributions on frustrated quantum magnets, particularly those in which the underlying magnetic sublattices strongly influence the resulting magnetic ground state.

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Frontiers in Magnetic Refrigeration Across Scales: Materials, Mechanisms, and Devices

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Magnetic refrigeration is a rapidly advancing field that bridges fundamental physics, materials science, and engineering, enabling cooling technologies across an exceptionally wide temperature range: from millikelvin cryogenics (Steffen Saubert) to hydrogen liquefaction (Xin Tang) and high-efficiency room-temperature refrigeration (Joao Amaral). We focus on the fundamental mechanisms of magnetocaloric effects, the design and discovery of advanced magnetic materials, and the development of scalable device concepts, bringing together both invited and contributed talks to foster cross-disciplinary discussions across different temperature regimes and length scales.

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Integrated Magnetics for Power Distribution in Next-Gen Chips and Devices

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Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data centres, and electric vehicles are pushing power requirements to unprecedented levels in modern electronic devices and semiconductor chips. Magnetic materials are crucial to meet the increasing demands for power density. This symposium welcomes contributions at the intersection of magnetic materials physics, electrical engineering, and power electronics, including (but not limited to) novel materials for high power applications, advanced integration schemes, and innovative metrology for characterization under high power and high frequency conditions.

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Intelligent Magnetic Technologies: From Materials to Systems

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Co-design of magnetics from materials to system is opening up new applications of spintronics in computing, including neuromorphic computing, neural networks, probabilistic computing, reservoir computing, and more. This symposium welcomes contributions on unconventional computing with magnetism.

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Magnetic Materials Design and Discovery

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The discovery of high performance magnetic materials, such as rare earth free permanent magnets or novel spintronic devices, has relied on costly trial and error experiments and simulations. Recent advances in AI offer pathways to overcome these bottlenecks, accelerating materials discovery and enabling new physical insights and application possibilities. This symposium welcomes contributions on topics at the intersection of AI, magnetism, and spintronics, bridging electronic structure theory, magnetic modeling, and data science.

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Magnetic Random Access Memories : What's Coming Next ?

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Magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) is entering markets for storage and computing. This symposium will present state-of-the-art MRAM technology. We welcome contributions on the status and future of MRAM as well as technologies leveraging MRAM.

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Magnetism and the Brain: Neuromodulation, Neuroimaging, and Novel Applications

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Magnetic neuromodulation and neuroimaging are rapidly expanding fields that integrate techniques such as magnetoelectric neuromodulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, MRI, and magnetic particle imaging to enable noninvasive, spatiotemporally precise modulation and monitoring of neural circuits. We welcome contributions with impact on fundamental neuroscience and clinical translation, including wireless magnetic transducers, ultra sensitive magnetometry, and translational biomagnetic engineering involving magnetic materials development, coil design, and experimental validation platforms.

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Magnetism for Biomedicine: from Biological Systems and Functional Materials to Therapy

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Magnetic materials play an important role in emerging biomedical technologies, from targeted drug delivery and bio‑actuation to sensing, diagnostics, and therapeutics. This symposium brings together complementary perspectives and welcomes contributions on magnetic systems operating under biological constraints, functional magnetic materials, device‑level integration at the biointerface, and therapy‑oriented approaches.

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New Trends in Magnonics: Engineered Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Magnetic Systems

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Recent advances in magnonics demonstrate how deliberately engineered nonequilibrium dynamics can create novel magnetic functionalities and emergent states beyond conventional linear spin wave physics. This symposium welcomes contributions that highlight experimental and theoretical progress showing how magnetic systems can be actively shaped in space, time, and nonlinearity to control magnon spectra, correlations, and information processing capabilities.

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Orbitronics Meets Spintronics: Interplay between Orbital and Spin Angular Momenta

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Orbitronics is rethinking how to measure and control orbital angular momentum, as well as how to engineer the interaction between orbital and spin angular momentum. This symposium welcomes both fundamental and applied contributions to orbitronics.

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Quantum Magnetism in Nanostructures

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Recently, quantum effects and magnetism can be simultaneously observed in nanostructures, leading to new understanding and application of quantum magnetic systems. This symposium welcomes contributions on entanglement, superposition, and other quantum effects in magnetic materials and devices.

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Re-Imagining Spintronic Logic

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Spintronic logic promises energy efficiencies beyond the limits of Moore's Law, but has stalled due to challenges of acheiving those efficiencies while preserving logic requirements such as fanout and high signal to noise. With recent advances in magnetic switching mechanisms and readout mechanisms, spintronic logic can be reimagined. This symposium will showcase advances at the material, device, and circuit level to make spintronic logic a reality.

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Seeing Magnetism Differently: Emerging Phases Revealed by Advanced X-ray Imaging

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This symposium explores how advanced X-ray imaging techniques are transforming our ability to visualize and understand complex magnetic phases, including antiferromagnets and altermagnets, in two and three dimensions at the nanoscale. We invite contributed talks on emerging imaging methodologies and their applications to uncover, control, and exploit novel magnetic states and functionalities.

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Spin-charge-photon Conversion: From LEDs to Lasers

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The interaction of spin, charge, and photons is leading to new understanding and application of spin-carrying materials to photonics, such as LEDs and lasers. This symposium welcomes submissions that bridge spintronics, photonics, and optoelectronics.

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