The program of the conference is available with abstracts Full Program iWOE25  and without Short Program iWOE25.

 

Sunday, 30^th September 2018

17h00     Registration in the hotel

19h30     Dinner

  

Monday, 1^st October 2018

08h00     Registration

08h45     Welcome and opening remarks

               Oral Session 1: Detection of symmetry breaking - Chair: Philippe Ghosez, University of Liège

09h00     Patrick Maletinsky (University of Basel) - Single spin magnetic sensing of mesoscopic condensed matter systems

09h30     Tobia Nova (MPI Hamburg) - Light-induced symmetry breaking in SrTiO₃

09h45     Gustau Catalan (ICREA -ICN2) - Breaking not-so-bad: fracture flexoelectricity

10h00     Woo Seok Choi (Sungkyunkwan University) - Ferroelectricity in 1D tetrahedral chain network via combined polar distortion

10h30     Coffee break

               Oral Session 2: Collective states in transition metal oxides - Chair: Charles Ahn, Yale University

11h00     Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zürich)- Connecting ferroelectricity and superconductivity in SrTiO₃

11h30     Nicolas Bergeal (Université Pierre and Marie Curie) - Superfluid stiffness in oxide interfaces

11h45     Diogo Vaz (CNRS, Thales) - Enhanced spin-to-charge conversion through topological states in SrTiO₃-based two-dimensional electron gases

12h00     Rui Peng (Fudan University) - Revealing the role of the interface in the high-temperature superconductivity of single-layer FeSe/SrTiO₃

12h30     Lunch

14h00     Poster Session A - Chair: Jean-Marc Triscone, University of Geneva

               Oral Session 3: Ruthenates - Chair: Ralph Claessen, Universitat Würzburg

15h30     Antoine Georges (The Flatiron Institute - Collège de France) - Sr₂RuO₄: a precision laboratory for electronic correlations

16h00     Sara Ricco (University of Geneva) - In-situ strain-tuning of the metal-insulator-transition of Ca₂RuO₄ in angleresolved photoemission experiments

16h15     Andrew Millis (The Flatiron Institute - Columbia University) - Electron-lattice coupling in correlated electron materials: Ca2RuO4 and beyond

16h30     25^th anniversary of the iWOE celebration

18h00     Hideomi Koinuma (University of Tokyo) - Smart Combinatorial Drone for exploring a new frontier of oxide and molecular electronics

20h00     Dinner

 

Tuesday, 2^nd October 2018

 

               Oral Session 4: Complex Oxide Interfaces - Chair: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University

08h45     Karin Rabe (Rutgers University) - Charge transfer and charge order in functional perovskite superlattices from first principles

09h15     Gabriele De Luca (University of Zürich - ETH Zürich) - Real-time observation of polarization emergence in ultrathin ferroelectric oxide heterostructures

09h30     Nagarajan Valanoor (University of New South Wales) - Topological transitions in ultrathin ferroelectric films

09h45     Nicolas Gauquelin (EMAT - Antwerp) - Electron microscopy study of the Metal-Insulator Transition in nickelate superlattices

10h00     Naoya Shibata (University of Tokyo) - Direct electromagnetic field imaging of interfaces by advanced STEM

10h30     Coffee break

               Oral Session 5: Spin-orbit coupling at polar surfaces and interfaces - Chair: Manuel Bibes, CNRS Thales

11h00     Phil King (University of St Andrews) - Maximal Rashba-like spin splittings and intrinsic Stoner instabilities at polar surfaces of delafossite oxides

11h30     Alexander Demkov (University of Texas) - A theoretical investigation of graphene on a polar SrTiO₃ (111) surface

11h45     Marco Salluzzo (CNR-SPIN) - Orbital reconstruction and spin polarization in (100) and (111) LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ and LaAlO₃/EuTiO₃/SrTiO₃ q2DEG

12h00     Karsten Held (TU Wien) - Ferromagnetism and quantum anomalous Hall state in SrRuO₃ (111)

12h30     Lunch

               Oral Session 6: Oxides and their functionalities - Chair: Guus Rijnders, University of Twente

14h00     Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Antiferroelectric PbZrO₃ thin films with multiple phase transitions

14h30     Taro Hitosugi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - A high Li-ion conductivity at solid-electrolyte and electrode interfaces: introducing oxide epitaxial thin-film

               technology to battery research

14h45     Jon-Paul Maria (Pennsylvania State University) - All-oxide IR devices based on high-mobility CdO thin films

15h00     Amalia Ballarino (CERN) - Superconducting materials for accelerators: an overview of state-of the art performance and future needs

15h30     Coffee break and group photograph

               Oral Session 7: Metal-insulator transitions and Mott physics - Chair: Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin, Madison

16h00     Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University) - Nature of the metal-insulator transition in few-unit-cell-thick LaNiO₃ films

16h30     Philipp Scheiderer (Universität Würzburg) - Tailoring materials for Mottronics: excess oxygen doping of a prototypical Mott insulator

16h45     Sophie Beck (ETH Zürich) - Metal-Insulator Transition in thin films and multilayers of early transition metal oxides from DFT+DMFT

17h00     Poster Session B - Chair: Stefano Gariglio, University of Geneva

20h00     Conference dinner

 

Wednesday 3^rd October 2018

 

               Oral Session 8: Complex oxide materials design - Chair: Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota

08h45     James Rondinelli (Northwestern University) - Valence precision and transparent band conductors in complex oxides

09h15     Jaap Geessinck (University of Twente) - Charge transfer at the LaCoO₃-LaTiO₃ interface

09h30     Hari Nair (Cornell University) - Growth of superconducting Sr₂RuO₄ thin films

09h45     Gervasi Herranz (ICMAB-CSIC) - In-situ imaging of electric field-induced ferroelastic domain motion in SrTiO₃

10h00     Yoshinori Tokura (RIKEN - University of Tokyo) - Emergent properties of Dirac and Weyl semimetals of iridates

10h30     Coffee break

               Oral Session 9: Topological textures in oxides - Chair: Marc Gabay, Université Paris-Sud

11h00     Andrea Caviglia (Delft University of Technology) - Berry phase engineering at oxide interfaces

11h30     Kei Takahashi (RIKEN) - Quantum transport in the films of a magnetic semiconductor EuTiO₃

11h45     Lingfei Wang (Seoul National University) - Ferroelectrically tunable magnetic skyrmions in ultrathin oxide heterostructures

12h00     Xiaoqing Pan (University of California) - Effects of ferroelectric polarization at oxide interfaces

12h30     Poster awards and closing remarks

12h45     Lunch

 

 

Information for Presenters:

Invited oral: 25 minutes plus 5 minutes Q&A

Contributed oral: 12 minutes plus 3 minutes Q&A

Posters: Poster board dimensions are 116 cm x 116 cm