Consortium meeting, Imperial College London

This was the second consortium meeting, hosted at Imperial College London. The ECRs provided an update on their research progress, and there was also an overview of the work packages. Training was also delivered on scientific techniques and engaging with policymakers. There was an opportunity to tour the labs and other facilities on two separate campuses, at the Royal School of Mines and the iHUB building.

The ECRs had an opportunity to meet independently, after which the two representatives shared feedback with the Leadership Team. The Advisory Board also convened and offered insights and recommendations.

Programme

Tuesday 1 April
Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus

10:30 – 11:00 Arrival and refreshments
11:00 – 11:15 Introduction and logistics, Bryan Hickey/Sandrine Heutz
11:15 – 12:45 Overview of progress in the consortium, part 1:

• • 11:15 - 11:30 "Growing Topological Insulator / Magnetic Multilayer Heterostructures", Benjamin Brereton
  • 11:30 – 11:45 "Skyrmion dynamics under giant spin-orbit torques from topological materials", Soumyarup Hait
  • 11:45 – 12:00 "Project update", Emma Bryan
  • 12:00 – 12:15 "Atomic level simulations of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic interfaces", Pietro Canali
  • 12:15 – 12:30 "Moiré Effect in Lateral Superlattices", Ismet Gelen
  • 12:30 – 12:45 "Theoretical work on CAMIE project", Marios Georgiou

12:45 – 12:50 Group photo
12:50 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:15 "Ion Beam Characterisation: Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS)", Sarah Fearn
14:15 – 14:45 "Introduction to Atom Probe Tomography", James Douglas
14:45 – 15:15 "APT+SIMS, James Douglas"; Q+A, Sarah Fearn and James Douglas
15:15 – 15:45 Lab tours to SIMS and APT, James and Sarah available for further discussion
15:45 – 16:15 "Making research go further: engaging with Policymakers", Craig Whittall, Imperial Forum
(Including a working break)
16:15 – 16:45 ECR meeting
16:45 – 17:15 Closed meeting with Leadership Team, ECR reps, Advisory Board
17:15 -- Social event / team bonding event
19:00 -- Dinner

Wednesday 2 April, iHUB Building, Imperial White City Campus

09:30 – 09:45 Arrival and refreshments
09:45 - 11:15 Overview of progress in the consortium, part 2:

• • 09:45 – 10:00 "Characterisation of structural and magnetic properties of functional thin films", Ping-Luen (Baron) Ho
  • 10:00 – 10:15 "Bonded Ferroelectric Interfaces for Ferroelectric-Spin Coupling", Conor McCluskey
  • 10:15 – 10:30 "Progress on the growth of non-collinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Mn_3 Ge", Servet Ozdemir
  • 10:30 – 10:45 "Spin quantum transport at topological insulator-organic interfaces", Zachariah Parkin
  • 10:45 – 11:00 "BiFeO3-Magnetic Heterostructures", Sehwan Song
  • 11:00 – 11:15 "Molecular Interfaces", Hari Babu Vasili

11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Work package overview by WP leaders:

• • WP1 – Oscar Cespedes
  • WP2 – Marios Georgiou (in Joseph Barker’s absence)
  • WP3 – Sandrine Heutz
  • WP4 – Marty Gregg
  • WP5 – Oscar Cespedes (in Christopher Marrows’ absence)
  • WP6 – Andrew Bell

12:00 – 12:30 Discussion on research in the next few months
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:45 "Royce activities and lab structure", Mike Leverentz, Research Development Manager for Royce
13:45 – 14:00 Walk to Michael Uren building
14:00 – 14:45 Royce tour in the Michael Uren building
14:45 Finish