I. Fundamental Properties and Cooperative Phenomena
a. Electronic Structure
b. Critical Phenomena
c. Spin Glasses and Frustrated Magnets
d. Spin Dynamics in Correlated Systems
e. 4f-, 5f- and Strongly Correlated Systems
f. Superconductivity
g. Low-Dimensional Systems
II. Magnetoelectronic Materials and Effects
a. Complex Oxides
b. Multiferroic Materials
c. Magnetoelectric Materials
d. Half-Metallic Materials
e. Magnetoresistance, Magnetoimpedance and Hall Effect
f. Spin-dependent Effects in Semiconductors
g. Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
h. Organic and Carbon-based Spin Transport
i. Other Spin Transport
III. Spintronics
a. MRAM
b. Spin Transfer Torque Switching
c. Spin Transfer Torque Oscillators
d. Domain Wall Devices
e. MgO Based Tunnel Junctions
f. Other Magnetic Tunneling Junctions
g. Spin Injection (Metals)
h. Spin Injection (Semiconductors)
IV. Magnetization Dynamics and Micromagnetics
a. Magnetization Dynamics and Damping
b. Spinwaves
c. Domain Wall and Vortex Dynamics
d. Ultrafast Switching
e. Numerical Methods
f. Micromagnetic Modeling
g. Hysteresis Modeling
V. Soft Magnetic Materials and Applications
a. Ferrites, Garnets and Other Microwave Materials
b. Crystalline Alloys
c. Amorphous/Nanocrystalline Materials
d. Transformers and Inductors
VI. Hard Magnetic Materials and Applications
a. Rare-Earth Transition Metal Borides
b. Intermetallic and Other Hard Magnetic Materials
c. Nanostructured Hard Magnetic Materials
d. Hard Magnet Processing and Applications
VII. Structured Materials
a. Ultra-Thin Films and Surface Effects
b. Multi-Layer Films and Superlattices
c. Patterned Films
d. Ordered Alloys (e.g., L10)
e. Exchange Bias
f. Nanoparticles Synthesis
g. Nanoparticles Characterization
VIII. Special Magnetic Materials
a. Magneto-Optic Materials
b. Magneto-Elastic Materials
c. Magneto-Caloric Materials
d. Molecular Magnets
e. New Magnetic Materials
IX. Magnetic Recording
a. Continuous Recording Media (disk & tape)
b. Patterned Media
c. Perpendicular Recording
d. Read Heads
e. Write Heads
f. Magneto-Optic Recording and Alternative Magnetic Storage
g. Recording Modeling, System and Theory
h. Head-Media Interface and Tribology
X. Applications (not information technology)
a. Magnetic Sensors (not magnetic recording)
b. Microwave and Millimeter Wave Devices
c. MEMS
d. Power and Control Magnetics
e. Shielding, Levitation, and Propulsion
f. Biomedical Applications
g. New Applications
XI. Magnetic Imaging, and Interdisciplinary Topics
a. Magnetic Imaging and Microscopy
b. Magnetic Fluids and Separations
c. Bio/Chemical Magnetism
d. Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques