Workshop on Evolution and Control of Complexity:
Key Experiments Using Sources of Hard X-rays

Program: Focus Panel 1 - Control of Processes in Condensed Systems

Chair: Sam Bader (Argonne National Laboratory); Co-Chairs: Paul Evans (University of Wisconsi, Madison, and John Freeland (Argonne National Laboratory)

Oct 11, 2010, Monday, Room A1100
17:00 -17:30	Focus Panel Introductions and Statement of Goals
Oct 12, 2010, Tuesday, Room A1100
08:00 – 08:30	Coffee and Refreshments
Dynamics and Inhomogeneity in Complex Oxides
08:30 – 09:00	Stephen D. Kevan, University of Oregon *Nanoscale Intermittency and Emergence in Complex Materials* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
09:00 – 09:30	Antonio Bianconi, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome *Imaging power law distribution of mobile dopant ordering favoring high temperature superconductivity* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
09:30 – 10:00	John Freeland, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Unraveling Phase Transitions in Complex Oxides (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
10:00 – 10:30	Paul G. Evans, University of Wisconsin, Madison Opportunities in Far-from-Equilibrium Complex Oxide Electronic Materials (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
10:30 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 11:30	Joel D. Brock, Cornell University *Dynamics of Thin‐Film Deposition* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
11:30 – 12:00	Maya Kiskinova, Sincrotrone Trieste, Trieste *Challenges for exploring dynamic/transient behaviour of complex nano-objects and new opportunities opened by ultra-bright hard x-rays* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
12:00 – 12:30	Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin, Madison *The frontier of spin coherence in silicon nanostructures* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:30	Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries
Controlling Magnetism with Light
14:30 – 15:00	Gerardo Bertero, Western Digital Corporation *Extending Magnetic Recording Areal Densities into the Tb/square-inch range* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
15:00 – 15:30	Michel van Veenendaal, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL and Argonne National Laboratory *Time-Dependent X-ray spectroscopy as a Probe of Ultrafast Dynamics in Transition-Metal Photo-excited Complexess* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
15:30 – 16:00	Break
16:00 – 16:30	Hermann A. Dürr, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory *The X-Ray View of Femtosecond Magnetism* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
16:30 – 17:00	Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries
Coherent Probes for Dynamics
17:00 – 17:30	Bruce D. Patterson, SwissFEL Project, Paul Scherrer Institut *Time-Resolved Stimulated X-ray Raman Scattering* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
17:30 – 18:00	Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries, Writing Assignments
18:00	No-host Dinner, Argonne Guest House
Oct 13, 2010, Wednesday, Room A1100
08:00 – 08:30	Coffee and Refreshments
Nanomagnetism
08:30 – 09:00	Byoung-Chu Choi, University of Victoria, Canada *Vortex Dynamics in Multilayered Nanopillar Element − Spin‐Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (STT‐MRAM)* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
09:00 – 09:30	Oleg Shpyrko, University of California at San Diego *Probing complex magnetic domains via coherent x-ray diffractive imaging* (Bio, Abstract, Talk)
09:30 – 10:00	Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries
10:00 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 12:00	Focus Panel: Summary Presentation Preparation
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
Oct 13, 2010, Wednesday, Plenary Session, 401 Auditorium
13:30 – 15:15	Summary Presentations from Focus Panels (15 minutes each)
15:15 – 15:30	Workshop Summary
15:30	Adjourn