Schedule-at-a-Glance Comprehensive Program Workshop Descriptions Banquet Exhibitors/Sponsors Registration Form General Information Travel and Housing Home DATES TO REMEMBER April 1 Registration deadline for non-U.S. citizens April 19 Housing deadline Registration deadline   . Workshop 1: Nanomagnetism Co-organizers: Dongqi Li and Seth Darling Nanoscale magnetic systems, such as nanoparticles and ultrathin films, display properties distinct from bulk materials. Burgeoning industrial applications such as spintronics and magnetic recording demand a deeper understanding of these systems. Hence, their preparation and characterization are both ongoing challenges as traditional techniques run into intrinsic limitations. In this workshop, fundamental aspects of magnetism in reduced dimensionality, as well as state-of-the-art fabrication techniques, are discussed. This discussion highlights the use of various x-ray based approaches for exploring nanomagnetic systems. Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Building 402 E1100/E1200 8:30 am Registration and Coffee 8:50 Welcome Eric Isaacs, Argonne National Laboratory Morning Session 9:00 Imaging Antiferromagnetic Domains and the Spin-Flip Transition in Chromium using Magnetic X-ray Microdiffraction Paul Evans, University of Wisconsin , Madison 9:30 Temperature Dependent Magnetic Interface Location in Interdiffused NiMn/Ni Epitaxial Bilayers Christopher Leighton, University of Minnesota 10:00 Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Magnetism in Layered Nanostructures Daniel Haskel, Argonne National Laboratory 10:30 Break 10:50 Relaxation Properties of Permalloy Nanoparticles and their Effect on Superconductivity Myron Salamon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 11:20 Towards Magnetic Storage Media Using a Single Nanocrystal per BIT Franz Himpsel, Univeristy of Wisconsin at Madison 11:50 Lunch Afternoon Session 1:30 pm Magnetic Nanocrystal Superlattices Christopher Murray, IBM 2:00 Micromagnetic Simulation of Absorption Spectra John Ketterson, Northwestern University 2:30 Break 2:50 Controlling Ferromagnetic Properties of Ultra-thin Ga1-xMnxAs Films by Modulation Doping Jacek Furdyna, University of Notre Dame 3:20 Epitaxial Thin Films, Nanopatterning, and Magnetrotransport R. Alejandra Lukaszew, University of Toledo 3:50 Are the Half Metallic Ferromagnets Half Metallic? Peter Dowben, University of Nebraska 4:20 Wrap-up APS/CNM User Office apsuser@aps.anl.gov.