Data Storage Systems Center

Sponsors

MORIS 2007 is sponsored by The Magnetics Society of Japan in cooperation with the following academic societies:

• IEEE Japan Council
• IEEE Magnetics Society
• Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
• Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers
• Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
• Japan Optomechatronics Association
• Japan Society of Applied Physics
• Materials Research Society
• Optical Society of Japan
• Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association
• Physical Society of Japan

Registration Fees

Fee includes breakfast and lunch each day, welcoming reception, and conference reception.

Members of any of the academic societies listed above are eligible for reduced registration fees.

Early registration
Before August 24

$350 — Member

$400 — Non-member

$50 — Student/Retiree

Late/on-site registration
August 24 and after

$400 — Member

$450 — Non-member

$50 — Student/Retiree

Hotel Information

Group rates are available at the Holiday Inn ($112/night; call 1-800-864-8287 for reservations; group name MOC) and the Wyndham Garden ($169; MORIS Conference).

Shuttle service will be provided to and from these hotels.

Other hotels in the area include the Hampton Inn, and Courtyard. No shuttle service will be provided from these hotels.

Directions

Driving directions and a map of campus parking areas are available.

• To the Holiday Inn
• To the Wyndham Garden

Contact

MORIS 2007
c/o Debbie Scappatura
Carnegie Mellon
ECE Department
Hamerschlag Hall 1108
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA

Phone

(412)-268-3299

Fax

(412)-268-5787

Weather and Attractions

The temperature in September is usually 13–24°C (56–76°F).

The neighborhoods next door to Carnegie Mellon University are a wonderful potpourri of shops, restaurants and entertainment that is as ethnically diverse as any major university.

• The University of Pittsburgh and a cultural district with world-renowned museums are a short stroll to the west.
• A 456-acre park, the third-largest city park in the eastern U.S., borders campus on the south.
• About three miles west of campus is the city's downtown, where Pittsburgh's three rivers meet and the city's three major sports teams meet their rivals.
• Just an hour's drive in any direction will lead to the beauty of Pennsylvania's countryside.

MORIS 2007

Workshop on Thermal and Optical Magnetic Materials and Devices

Location

The MORIS Workshop will be held on the Carnegie Mellon Campus at the University Center. The University Center can be found at location 80, near the center of the campus map.

Reception

On Sunday, September 23, there will be a reception to welcome MORIS participants. The reception will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the McKenna/Peter/Wright Room in the the University Center. The registration desk for the MORIS workshop will also be open at this time and participants who have pre-registered or who need to register may do so at this time and pick up their conference kit including abstract digest and information about the area.

About the conference

MORIS 2007 will feature invited speakers from industry and academia who will address all topics related to thermo-magnetics and magneto-optics, from basic theory and physics through applications, including materials, components, measurements, system design, simulations, devices, and high-density recording.

Thermo-magnetic physics has progressed as its use in the recording process for Magneto-Optical disks has spread toward application to HDDs and MRAMs. In addition, magneto-optical effects have been actively studied for magnetophotonic crystals in new functional devices.

Subject areas in the workshop include:

• Hybrid Recording (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording)
• High Anisotropy Recording Materials
• Thermally Assisted MRAM
• Thermal Aspects of Spintronics
• Thermo-magnetic Phenomena and Micromagnetics
• Magnetic Semiconductors
• Fast Magnetization Reversal and Spin Dynamics
• Magnetophotonic Crystals
• Magneto-Optical Effects
• Magneto-Optical Recording
• Magneto-Optical Devices and Components
• Magnetic Microscopy and Measurements
• Nano Particles, Nano Structures, and Others

Publication

Deadline: September 7, 2007

• MSJ submission form

Selected papers from the MORIS 2007 workshop will be published in March 2008 in a special issue of the Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan (JMSJ). We strongly recommend that authors who present at MORIS 2007 submit their papers to the journal. Please carefully read the guidelines for preparing the manuscript before submitting your manuscript.

The paper must be submitted via the MSJ web submission system. In order to distinguish MORIS papers, please select the following options during the first step of the submission process:

Manuscript Type (select one)

• MORIS Invited Review
• MORIS Invited Original Paper
• MORIS Contributed Paper

Research Field First

9. MORIS Paper

Research Field Second (select one)

• [Not Selected]
• 9. MORIS Paper

Further detailed information is available on the MSJ website.

Posters

Poster sessions will be held in late afternoon during some days of the conference, directly following the afternoon technical sessions. The poster session is a forum for presenting and discussing new and recent developments in the field.

The area provided for each poster is about 6' (180 cm) high by 4' (120 cm) wide. Mounting materials such as tacks will be provided at the meeting. The title, authors, and affiliation should be prominently displayed. Include a sign-up sheet for reprint requests. Poster authors will have a set period when they must be at their posters and these times will be described in the final program. Times will be staggered to allow discussions with other authors.

All invited speakers are also expected to prepare posters summarizing their oral presentations for the conference and all authors are encouraged to submit a paper to the Journal of the Magnetic Society of Japan by September 7, according to the instructions on this web page.

Abstract Submission: Post-Deadline

Deadline: August 8, 2007

Authors are cordially invited to contribute papers related to thermo-magnetics and magneto-optics. Abstracts must be written in English and follow these guidelines:

1. Limit the length of the abstract to two pages, including figures, tables, results, discussion, and references.

2. Include the entire abstract within a 17 cm x 22 cm rectangular area for offset reproduction on A4-size paper.

3. Format the document using the examples provided in the sample abstract. (MS Word or PDF)

4. Submit the file (MS Word or PDF).

Because the deadline has passed, any submission received will be considered post-deadline. These submissions may not be included in the Conference Digest Book. Post-deadline authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by September 1, 2007.

Abstracts will be selected on the basis of their originality and the significance of the results. If an abstract is accepted, it will appear in the Technical Digests distributed at the workshop.

MORIS 2007 Organization

Workshop General

Chair
T.E. Schlesinger
Carnegie Mellon University

Vice-Chair
Masahiko Kaneko
Sony Corporation

Steering Committee

Chair
James Bain
Carnegie Mellon University

Program

Co-Chair
Jimmy Zhu
Carnegie Mellon University

Co-Chair
Mitsuteru Inoue
Toyohashi University of Technology

Members
Akira Kikitsu
Toshiba Corporation

Theo Rasing
Radboud University Nijmegen

Bo Liu
Data Storage Institute

Publications

Chair
Takeshi Kato
Nagoya University

Member
Ariyoshi Nakaoki
Sony Corporation

Publicity

Ed Gage
Seagate Corporation

Treasurers

Yoshiteru Murakami
Sharp Corporation, Japan

Naoyuki Takagi
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Japan

William Challener
Seagate Corporation

Japanese Affairs

Nobutake Imamura
TeraHouse, Ltd.

Takayuki Ishibashi
Nagaoka University of Technology

Arata Tsukamoto
Nihon University

Auditor

Masahiro Birukawa
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

International Organizing Committee

Chair
Katsuji Nakagawa
Nihon University, Japan

Members
K. Ando
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan

J. N. Chapman
University of Glasgow, U.K.

C. T. Chong
Data Storage Institute, Singapore

J. Ferre
Paris-Sud University, France

A. Itoh
Nihon University, Japan

C. Lodder
University of Twente, Netherlands

T. W. McDaniel
Seagate Technology, USA

N. Ota
Hitachi Maxell, Japan

K. Ozaki
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

K. Sato
Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan

S. C. Shin
KAIST, Korea

J. U. Thiele
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, USA

S. Tsunashima
Nagoya University, Japan

R. H. Victora
University of Minnesota, USA

S. Visnovsky
Charles University, Czech Republic

C. D. Wright
University of Exeter, U.K.

T. H. Wu
National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan