Purdue University and Tohoku University to co-host Spintronics Workshop

The Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute will co-host a Spintronics Workshop with Tohoku University from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. The goals of the workshop are to exchange scientific and engineering information and to encourage the development of collaborative efforts between the two institutions. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

The workshop will kick off with a Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture presentation by Professor Hideo Ohno, president of Tohoku University and a renowned world leader in spintronics. Sessions on Spintronics Devices and Systems and Novel Spintronics Materials and Measurements will highlight faculty presentations from both Purdue and Tohoku universities.

A new collaborative agreement resulting from a joint Tohoku-Purdue workshop on spintronics held at Tohoku in 2018 will also be signed to facilitate joint research and education programs that advance the development of next-generation quantum and spintronic materials and devices and the exchange of researchers and students in these areas.

Yong Chen, the Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of Physics and Astronomy and professor of electrical and computer engineering, will be a key contributor in this new agreement as director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute. Since 2017, Chen has been a principal investigator at Tohoku’s World Premier International Research Center Initiative’s Advanced Institute for Materials Research, where he directs a joint research program and lab on quantum materials and spintronics.

A full schedule of events can be found online. Contact Annie Wheeldon at acheever@purdue.edu to register for the workshop.

About Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute

Located in Discovery Park, PQSEI fosters the development of practical and impactful aspects of quantum science, and focuses on discovering and studying new materials, devices and basic physical quantum systems that will be suited for integration into tomorrow’s technology. It encourages interdisciplinary collaboration leading to the design and realization of quantum devices with enhanced functionality and performance close to the fundamental limit, aiming to ultimately bring them to a vast community of users. PQSEI faculty work on a broad range of topics in quantum science and technologies including quantum materials and devices, quantum photonics, atomic molecular and optical physics, quantum chemistry, quantum measurement and control, quantum simulation, and quantum information and computing.