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Detailed Program

I Week

Prof. Marco Grilli: Inhomogeneity, criticality, and topology of the LaXO3/SrTiO3 (X=Al,Ti) interfaces.
Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio and Dr. Marco Salluzzo: X-ray spectroscopy on oxides heterostructures - Growth of epitaxial thin films and heterostructures - Road to spintronic applications.

October 2
8:00 - 9:00 Registration.
9:00 - 09:10 Opening of the Training Course.
09:10 - 11:10 Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio: Growth of epitaxial thin films and heterostructures: physical mechanisms, deposition techniques, in-situ monitoring and strain effects.
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Prof. Marco Grilli :Crystal and electronic structure of LXO/STO interface. Phenomenology: XAS, photoemission, ARPES, magnetic susceptibility, transport, Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC).
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:15 Participant presentations
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:00 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr. F. Miletto Granozio
Training Session

October 3

09:00 - 11:00 Prof. Marco Grilli: Inhomogeneity of LXO/STO interfaces: experimental evidences. The percolative Superconductor-Metal-transition. Theoretical treatment: Effective Medium Theory and RRN modelling.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Marco Salluzzo: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy on Oxides and Oxide heterostructures.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr. Salluzzo.
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 - 17:45 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr. M. Salluzzo 
Training Session

 October 4

09:00 - 11:00 Prof. Marco Grilli: A primer on quantum critical points, scaling, dynamical critical index and so on. Superconductor-Metal-Transition: an example of quantum critical point.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Marco Salluzzo: The physics of the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 2DEG: orbital reconstruction; magnetism, in-gap states and Nanoscale inhomogeneities; structural relaxation in LAO/STO investigated by grazing incidence x-ray Diffraction.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr. M. Salluzzo 
Training Session
16:00 – 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:45 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr.  M. Salluzzo
Training Session

October 5

09:00 - 11:00 Prof. Marco Grilli: Interplay between charge-density and Cooper-pair fluctuations: a road to new anomalous criticality. Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a road to spintronic applications: Spin-Hall effect, Edelstein effect, Inverse Edelstein effect (I).
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio: Two-Dimensional electron gases at oxide interfaces. What do we know about the carriers origin and the mechanisms that determine their density, mobility and spatial extension?.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr. F. Miletto Granozio
Training Session
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 - 17:45 Prof. M. Grilli - Dr. F. Miletto Granozio
Training Session

October 6

09:30 - 11:00 Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio: Oxide Technology Roadmap. Discussion on the possible applications of oxide films and heterostructures: which ones can potentially have a technological impact within a decade?.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Dr. Fabio Miletto Granozio: Oxide Technology Roadmap. Discussion on the possible applications of oxide films and heterostructures: which ones can potentially have a technological impact within a decade?.
13:00 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:30 Dr. F. Miletto Granozio
Training Session

II Week

Dr. George Jackeli: Spin-orbital interplay in bulk and reduced dimensional correlated oxides.
Dr. Alexander Yaresko: Properties of transition metal oxides from band structure calculations.

October 9

9:00 – 11:00 Dr. George Jackeli: Introduction: Mott insulator, Orbital degeneracy, Spin-orbital exchange interactions.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Alexander Yaresko: Basics of band structure calculations Density functional theory; approximations to exchange correlation potential; methods.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:00 Dr. Delia Guerra: Strong spin-orbit effects in transition metal oxides with tetrahedral coordination.
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:45 - 17:45 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session

October 10
9:00 – 11:00 Dr. George Jackeli: Spin-orbital frustration: Geometrical frustration, order-by-disorder, Unusual ordered/disorder states.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Alexander Yaresko: Strong correlations and band structure LDA+U approximation; DMFT.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:00 Mr. Giuseppe Cuono: Electronic and Transport Properties of CrAs
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:45 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session

October 11
9:00 – 11:00 Dr. George Jackeli: Spin-orbit coupled Mott insulators: Local electronic structure and spin-orbital entanglement, Exchange interactions in pseudo-spin bases.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Alexander Yaresko: Electronic structure of 5d transition metal oxides Spin-orbit coupling; non-collinear magnetism.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:00 Dr.  Alberto Nocera: Pairing signatures in the magnetic excitation spectrum of strongly correlated quasi-one dimensional systems.
Training Session
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:45 – 17:45 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session

October 12
9:00 – 11:00 Dr. George Jackeli: Effective models and experimental implications: Layered Iridates, Ruthenates, and Vanadates, Molybdates and Osmates on frustrated lattices.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Alexander Yaresko: Calculations of effective magnetic interactions Spin-spiral calculations; magnetic force theorem.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session
16:30 - 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:45 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session

October 13
9:00 – 11:00 Dr. George Jackeli: Emergent novel states at the oxide interfaces: Polar catastrophe, collective electronic reconstructions, Spin, orbital and charge order at interfaces and superlattices.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Dr. Alexander Yaresko: Properties of multilayered structures Effects of reduced dimensionality; surface and interface states.
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 - 16:30 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session
16:30 - 16:45 Break
16:45 - 17:45 Dr. G. Jackeli – Dr. A. Yaresko
Training Session
17:45 – 18:00 Closing of the Training Course