C-SPIN Annual Review

September 20 - 22, 2016


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The C-SPIN 2016 Annual Review will be held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis September 20-22, 2016. The review will begin with a half-day focus session workshop on September 20th. We will use two full days for the review, beginning the program in the morning of Wednesday the 21st and wrapping up in late afternoon on the 22nd. The annual review is open to all researchers, graduate students, postdocs, SRC members, and industry sponsors.

Agenda

Please note, this is a draft agenda and is subject to changes.

Tuesday, September 20th
Focus Session Workshop
12:30 Check-In and light refreshments. Lunch will not be provided.
30
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater Atrium
Memory Focus Session - Spin Memory: what comes after STT-RAM?
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater
1:00 Voltage Controlled Antiferromagnetics and Future Spin Memory
VIEW SLIDES
22
Maxim Tsoi, Univ. of Texas Austin
1:22 The Scalability of STT MRAM Performance to Ultra-Small Sizes
22
Janusz Nowak, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
1:44 Spintronic Memory Beyond STT-RAM
22
Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins Univ.
2:07 Perspective on spintronics for next generation of stand-alone memory
22
Witold Kula, Micron
2:30 Break. Coffee and refreshments.
30
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater Atrium
Computing Focus Session - Spin Computing: non-Boolean and non-Von Neumann computing and their realization
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater
3:00 Architecture/System-Level Benchmarking for Spin-Based Information Processing
VIEW SLIDES
22
Sharon Hu, Univ. of Notre Dame
3:22 Spintronics Enabled Efficient Neuromorphic Computing: Prospects and Perspectives
VIEW SLIDES
22
Kaushik Roy, Purdue University
3:44 Enabling Next Generation Machine Learning: Computation in an Uncertain and Changing World
22
Trung Tran, DARPA
4:07 Stochastic Nanomagnets as Natural “p-bits” for Probabilistic Spin Logic (PSL)
VIEW SLIDES
22
Supriyo Datta, Purdue University
4:30 Focus Session Wrap-Up and Feedback
30
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater
5:00 Focus Session End
 
5:30 Student and Postdoc Poster Preview Practice Session
90
All Postdocs and Students Presenting Posters Northrop, Best Buy Theater
Wednesday, September 21st
Annual Review, Day 1
8:00 Breakfast and Check-in
30
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater Atrium
8:30 Welcome and Executive Overview
35
Jian-Ping Wang, Univ. of Minnesota Northrop, Best Buy Theater
9:05 STARnet Perspective
15
Todd Younkin, STARnet Program Director Northrop, Best Buy Theater
9:20 DARPA Perspective
15
Daniel Radack, DARPA/IDA Northrop, Best Buy Theater
9:35 Theme 1 Presentation - Perpendicular Magnetic Materials
35
Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins Univ. Northrop, Best Buy Theater
10:10 Theme 1 Deep Dive - Magnetic Insulators with Perpendicular Anisotropy
20
Caroline Ross, MIT Northrop, Best Buy Theater
10:30 Theme 1 Deep Dive - Perpendicular MTJs and Voltage Controlled Switching
20
Weigang Wang, Univ. of Arizona Northrop, Best Buy Theater
10:50 Theme 1 Poster Preview
30
Theme 1 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Best Buy Theater
11:20 Theme 1 Poster Session
80
Theme 1 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Memorial Hall Atrium
12:40 Lunch Break
90
  McNamara Alumni Center
2:10 Theme 2 Presentation - Spin Channel Materials & Interface Engineering
20
Paul Crowell, Univ. of Minnesota Northrop, Best Buy Theater
2:30 Theme 2 Deep Dive - Graphene Spintronics
20
Roland Kawakami, The Ohio State Univ. Northrop, Best Buy Theater
2:50 Theme 2 Deep Dive - Topological Insulator Spintronics
20
Nitin Samarth, Penn State Univ. Northrop, Best Buy Theater
3:10 Theme 2 Poster Preview
20
Theme 2 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Best Buy Theater
3:30 Theme 2 Poster Session
80
Theme 2 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Memorial Hall Atrium
4:50 Student and Postdoc and Sponsor Networking Session
70
Postdocs and Students and Industry Members Northrop, Best Buy Theater and Atrium
PI Open Discussion Sessions C-SPIN PIs  
6:00 Social Reception
60
  McNamara Alumni Center
7:00 Dinner
120
  McNamara Alumni Center
Thursday, September 22nd
Annual Review, Day 2
7:45 Breakfast
35
  Northrop, Best Buy Theater Atrium
8:20 Theme 4 Presentation - Spin Devices and Interconnects
25
Steve Koester, Univ. of Minnesota Northrop, Best Buy Theater
8:45 Theme 4 Deep Dive - Skyrmion Applications for Memory and Logic
20
Geoff Beach, MIT Northrop, Best Buy Theater
9:05 Theme 4 Deep Dive - Magneto-Electric Materials and Devices
20
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, UC Berkeley Northrop, Best Buy Theater
9:25 Theme 4 Poster Preview
20
Theme 4 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Best Buy Theater
9:45 Theme 4 Poster Session
60
Theme 4 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Memorial Hall Atrium
10:45 Theme 5 Presentation - Spintronic Circuits and Architectures
20
Kaushik Roy, Purdue Univ. Northrop, Best Buy Theater
11:05 Theme 5 Deep Dive - Magneto-Electric Logic
20
Sachin Sapatnekar, Univ. of Minnesota Northrop, Best Buy Theater
11:25 Theme 5 Deep Dive - Evaluating Spintronic Memories
20
Chris Kim, Univ. of Minnesota Northrop, Best Buy Theater
11:45 Theme 5 Poster Preview
15
Theme 5 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Best Buy Theater
12:00 Theme 5 Poster Session
60
Theme 5 Postdocs and Students Northrop, Memorial Hall Atrium
1:00 Lunch - Presentation of Best Poster Awards
60
  The Commons Hotel, Pinnacle Room
2:00 Sponsor Caucus Session
90
  The Commons Hotel, Breakout Room
PI Discussion Session   The Commons Hotel, Breakout Room
Student and Postdoc Session   The Commons Hotel, Breakout Room
3:30 Break
30
  The Commons Hotel, Atrium
4:00 Continue Sponsor Caucus Session
90
  The Commons Hotel, Breakout Room
5:30 END
 

*Updated 13-Jun-2017