Speaker: Vincent Sokalski (Carnegie Mellon University) Title: A New Kind of Magnetism – The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction Abstract: Magnetism has had a profound effect on our everyday lives from compass needles in ancient times to the modern hard disc drive in today’s computers. The existence of magnetic materials is rooted in the Heisenberg exchange interaction energy,
Prof. Dr. Berndt Mueller, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Professor at Duke University, will give a talk on "TBD".