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Welcome to the international conference:

"MAMA-Trend: Trends, challenges and emergent new phenomena in multi-functional materials"

May 20^th-23^rd, 2013

Thank you for attending the International Conference MAMA-Trend

MAMA-Trend will be the last and most important event organised within the EU-MAMA project “MAMA: unlocking research potential for multifunctional advanced materials and nanoscale phenomena" (Grant Agreement No. 264098.). It follows three topical workshops (MAMA-synt Sept. 2011, MAMA-Protheo March 2012, MAMA-Hybrids, Oct 2012) that have collected a large interest from the scientific community and a wide number of participants.

The aim of the conference is to organize a lively conference focused on the latest breakthroughs in the highly dynamic research field of novel (multi)functional materials. The conference will be structured in four symposia, that will be named:

• Unconventional superconductivity: materials, pairing mechanisms and physical properties;
• Spin, charge and orbital ordering, phase transitions and quantum critical behaviour in correlated electron systems;
• Dielectrics, ferroelectrics and multiferroics;
• Emerging phenomena at surfaces and interfaces in correlated electron systems.

Overall we plan to have 4 Symposia:

• Symposium 1 - Unconventional superconductivity: materials, pairing mechanisms and physical properties;
• Symposium 2 - Dielectrics, ferroelectrics and multiferroics;
• Symposium 3 - Spin, charge and orbital ordering, phase transitions and quantum critical behaviour in correlated electron systems;
• Symposium 4 - Emerging phenomena at surfaces and interfaces in correlated electron systems.

During the conference we will have the pleasure to host many invited speakers:

• M. Beasley (Stanford University, USA)
• M. Bibes (CNRS, Thales, France)
• A. Boothroyd (University of Oxford, UK)
• A. Brinkman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• R. Cava (Princeton, USA)
• T. Dahm (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• R. De Renzi (University of Parma, Italy)
• V. Garcia (CNRS Thales, France)
• K. Garello (Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Spain)W. Prellier (CNRS, Caen, France)
• J. Geck (IFW Dresden, Germany)
• G. Ghiringhelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• G. Gregori (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart Germany)
• J. Iñiguez (ICMAB Barcelona, Spain)
• B. Kalisky (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
• D.I. Khomskii (Universität zu Köln, Germany) - Plenary talk
• P. Lecoeur (Universitê Paris-Sud, France)
• J. Lorenzana (CNR, Italy)
• Y. Maeno (Kyoto University, Japan) - Plenary talk
• C. Ortix (IFW Dresden, Germany)
• F. Parmigiani (University of Trieste, Italy)
• V. V. Ryazanov (Institute of Solid State Physics Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russia)
• A. F. Santander Syro (Université Paris-Sud and CNRS – France)
• G. Sawatsky (University of British Columbia, Canada) - Plenary talk
• D. Schlom (Cornell University, USA) - Plenary talk
• Y. Taguchi (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan)

You can find more information on the structure of the conference in the page Symposia and in its subpages.