The International Center for Materials Research (ICMR) at UC Santa Barbara announces a workshop on Magnetoelectric Interaction Phenomena in Crystals (MEIPIC-6), which will take place at UC Santa Barbara from January 26-29, 2009.

The scope of the conference is to provide a forum for discussions of new ideas and results on the magnetoelectric interactions of ordered matter. Aside from the microscopic origin and the fundamental aspects of magnetoelectric behavior “gigantic” magnetoelectric effects and potential device applications of the magnetoelectric effect will be discussed. With the workshop we attempt to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange among experimentalists and theorists from various World Hemispheres and to stimulate novel approaches to the field. This workshops follows MEIPIC Conferences in Seattle (1973), Ascona (1993), Novgorod (1996), Novgorod (2001), and Sudak (2003).

Topics for the workshop will include:
Linear and higher order magnetoelectric effects
Novel mechanisms for magnetoelectric coupling (multiferroics)
Magnetoelectric phase control
Toroidal moments
Multilayer effects
Interface effects
Dynamical magnetoelectric effects (incl. electromagnons)
Novel materials
Non-oxide compounds
Composites
Potential systems for technical application

Confirmed Invited Participants:
L. Bohaty, U. Koln
S.-W. Cheong, Rutgers
K. Dorr, Dresden
I. Dzyaloshinskii, UC Irvine
C. Ederer, Trinity College, Dublin
C. Fennie, Argonne National Lab
T. Kimura, Osaka
W. Kleemann, U. Duisburg
D. B. Litvin, Penn. State
A. Loidl, U. Augsburg
M. Mostovoy, U. Groningen
A. A. Mukhin, GPI-RAS, Moscow
T. Palstra, U. Groningen
R. Ramesh, UC Berkeley
G. Srinivasan, Oakland U.
A. Zvezdin, GPI-RAS, Moscow

Organizers of the Workshop:
N. A. Spaldin, UC Santa Barbara, USA
M. Fiebig, University of Bonn, Germany
R. V. Pisarev, Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
N. Nagaosa, University of Tokyo, Japan
H. Schmid, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Financial support for travel:
Participants may request travel support. Travel expenses may be reimbursed up to a maximum of $1000 for overseas participants and up to a maximum of $500 for US participants.

Application Deadline:
The deadline to apply for financial support has not yet been established. All applications will be acknowledged by email.

Ohter Important Information:

Registration Fee:
There is a $250 registration fee. UCSB participants are requried to pay registration if they are planning to take part in program meals. Registration will cover breaks, lunches, and conference materials. Registration payments are not yet being accepted.

Lodging Options:
Lodging information will be posted at a later date.

For further details, please contact the ICMR Program Coordinator, Jennifer Ybarra, at ybarra@icmr.ucsb.edu