Schedule
(Updated as of August 5, 2026)
Important notes:
| 1. | This forum will be held in face-to-face mode. |
| 2. | Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited. |
| 3. | Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials. |
| Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat by email at iascqm@ust.hk. | |
August 10, 2026 (Mon)
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| 09:30 - 09:50 |
Registration |
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Session 1 Session Chair: Junwei LIU (HKUST) |
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| 09:50 - 10:00 |
Opening Remarks |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Talk#01: TBC Libor SMEJKAL (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Talk#02: Strain Tunable Anomalous Hall Effects in Altermagnets Pengcheng DAI (Rice University) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Group Photo & Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Talk#03: Unconventional Magnetism [Abstract] Congjun WU (Westlake University) |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Talk#04: Optical-Pulse Excitation and Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Altermagnets [Abstract] Hans Christian SCHNEIDER (RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch (For Organizers and Invited Guests Only) |
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Session 2 Session Chair: Shiming LEI (HKUST) |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Talk#05: Magnetic Structures Database from Symmetry-aided High-Throughput Calculations [Abstract] Xiangang WAN (Nanjing University) |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Talk#06: Chiral Magnons and Switchable Altermagnetic Order in MnTe: Neutron Scattering Insights into Nonrelativistic Spin Splitting [Abstract] Takatsugu MASUDA (The University of Tokyo) |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Talk#07: Electrical Switching of Altermagnetism [Abstract] Haizhou LU (Southern University of Science and Technology) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Talk#08: TBC Berthold JAECK (HKUST) |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Talk#09: Electrical and Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic CrSb [Abstract] Dominik KRIEGNER (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences) |
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| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Short Break and Cocktail Reception (For Organizers and Invited Guests Only) |
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August 11, 2026 (Tue)
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Session 3 Session Chair: Chaoyu CHEN (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory) |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Talk#10: Resolving and Controlling Spin Textures in Altermagnetic MnTe [Abstract] Hugo DIL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Talk#11: ARPES Study of Altermagnetic Band Splittings in CrSb and Cs1-δV2Te2O [Abstract] Yang LIU (Zhejiang University) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Talk#12: Field-free Switching of Altermagnetic Heterostructure [Abstract] Changyoung KIM (Seoul National University) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Talk#13: Band Coupling Model of Magnetism and Crystal Symmetry of Altermagnet [Abstract] Suhuai WEI (Eastern Institute of Technology) |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Talk#14: Dopant-controlled Competition between Altermagnetism and Local Magnetic Disorder in FeSb2 [Abstract] Enrico DI LUCENTE (Columbia University) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch (For Organizers and Invited Guests Only) |
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Session 4 Session Chair: Yang GAO (University of Science and Technology of China) |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Talk#15: Layered Mott Insulator Nb3Cl8 [Abstract] Hongming WENG (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Talk#16: A Unified Understanding of Novel Responses in Altermagnets Based on C-paired Spin-momentum Locking [Abstract] Xingkai CHENG (HKUST) |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Talk#17: Visualizing the Fingerprint Spin Texture of Altermagnets at Atomic Scale [Abstract] Zhenyu WANG (University of Science and Technology of China) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Talk#18: Direct Observation of Quadruple Spin-texture Locking in a 2D d-wave Altermagnet [Abstract] Baiqing LYU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Talk#19: Crystal Growth and Physical Properties of Several Altermagnetic Materials Zhiwei WANG (Beijing Institute of Technology) |
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| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Talk#20: Exploration and Band Structure Study of Unconventional Magnets [Abstract] Chaoyu CHEN (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory) |
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| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Dinner (For Organizers and Invited Guests Only) |
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August 12, 2026 (Wed)
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Session 5 Session Chair: Berthold JAECK (HKUST) |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Talk#21: Altermagnetic Transport – From Electrons to Magnons [Abstract] Mathias KLÄUI (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Talk#22: Switchable Altermagnetism via Spin-Induced Improper Polarization [Abstract] Alessandro STROPPA (Italian National Research Council) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Talk#23: Jiawei HUANG (HKUST) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Talk#24: Magnon-driven Anomalous Hall Effect in Unconventional Magnets [Abstract] Yang GAO (University of Science and Technology of China) |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Talk#25: Spin Group Theory and Unconventional Magnetism [Abstract] Xiaobing CHEN (Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area ) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch (For Organizers and Invited Guests Only) |
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Session 6 Session Chair: Qiming SHAO (HKUST) |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Talk#26: Anomalous Transport Responses in Metallic Odd-parity Magnets [Abstract] Rinsuke YAMADA (The University of Tokyo) |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Talk#27: Multiferroic P-wave Magnet [Abstract] Qian SONG (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Talk#28: Suppression of Itinerant p-Wave Exchange Splitting by Localized 4f Electrons in CeNiAsO [Abstract] Jiuxiang ZHANG (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Closing Remarks |
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August 13, 2026 (Thu)
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Self-arranged Activities |