International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism

May 25, 2025, 12:00 AM → May 30, 2025, 6:00 PM America/Toronto

NF003 (Victoria College, University of Toronto)

The 13th International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism

The International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM) convenes experts from the magnetic community worldwide. HFM emphasizes and discusses theoretical and experimental studies concerning magnetic frustration, addressing related topics and relevant issues within the field.

The HFM international conference was first organized by the Canadian magnetism community and held in Waterloo, Canada in June 2000 (HFM 2000). The second iteration took place in Grenoble, France (HFM 2003), and the third in Osaka, Japan (HFM 2006). Since then, it has been hosted in various countries across America, Europe, and Asia. The most recent conferences, HFM 2022, took place in Paris, France, and HFM 2024 in Chennai, India. Attendance has grown from ~70 at the inaugural HFM 2000 conference to ~260 at the last meeting, HFM 2024. This remarkable increase in attendance underscores HFM's status as a thriving area of research in condensed matter physics. 

The event is renowned for its engaging and inclusive environment, featuring a single-session format and highly interactive poster sessions. Poster sessions are designed to be dynamic and encourage direct interactions between presenters and attendees, promoting in-depth discussions. These sessions foster an enjoyable and collaborative atmosphere for students, postdocs, and active researchers to exchange ideas and learn about the latest breakthroughs.

The 13th International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM 2025) will be held in-person from 25 to 30 May, 2025, in Toronto, Canada.

Key dates for HFM 2025 are as follows:

• 5 September 2024: Abstract submission opens
• 10 October 2024: Registration opens
• 7 December 2024: Abstract submission deadline
• 30 January 2025: Acceptance notification 
• 15 February 2025: Early-bird registration deadline
• 31 March 2025: Regular registration deadline
• 30 May 2025: Late registration deadline

 

Warning: The HFM conference is not affiliated with any organization that arranges accommodations. Please do not respond to anyone requesting your credit card information.

Sunday, May 25

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Tutorial 1

Semi-classical spin dynamics calculations using Sunny

Speaker: Prof. Kipton Barros (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Tutorial 2

Thermal transport and torque measurements on frustrated magnets

Speaker: Prof. Kamran Behnia (ESPCI Paris, France)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Tutorial 3

Multipolar physics in frustrated magnets

Speaker: Prof. Yong Baek Kim (University of Toronto, Canada)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Tutorial 4

Variational wave functions and Monte Carlo approaches for frustrated spin models

Speaker: Prof. Federico Becca (University of Trieste, Italy)

Monday, May 26

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Quantum Magnetism

Speakers: (Invited) Andreas Läuchli (PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data.), Jeffrey Rau (University of Windsor), Michael Zhitomirsky (IRIG, CEA-Grenoble), Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Triangular Lattice

Speakers: (Invited) Sara Haravifard (Duke University), Mengze Zhu (ETH Zurich), Oleg Starykh (University of Utah), Minhyea Lee (University of Colorado Boulder)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Triangular/Kagome lattice

Speakers: (Invited) Allen Scheie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Philippe Mendels (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides - Université Paris-Saclay), Tokuro Shimokawa (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Hiroto Takahashi (University of Oxford)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM New Materials I

Speakers: (Invited) Alannah Hallas (UBC), Y. Matsumoto (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany), P. Gegenwart (Experimental Physics VI, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg), Ross Colman (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Charles University), Gang Cao (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Tuesday, May 27

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Spin Liquids

Speakers: (Invited) Johannes Knolle (TU Munich), Shiyan Li (Fudan University), Natalia Perkins (University of Minnesota), Alexander Chernyshev (University of California, Irvine)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Kitaev Magnets

Speakers: (Invited) Ryutaro OKuma (Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo), Christian Balz (ORNL), Marius Möller (Goethe University), Matthias Gohlke (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM New Materials II

Speakers: (Invited) Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta (S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences), Harald O. Jeschke (Okayama University), Adam Aczel (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dr Leonie Heinze (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Poster

Wednesday, May 28

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM New Materials III

Speakers: (Invited) Geetha Balakrishnan (University of Warwick), Edwin Kermarrec (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides), Prof. Fabrice Bert (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides), Lukas Janssen (TU Dresden)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Metallic Magnets

Speakers: (Invited) Cristian Batista (University of Tennessee), Masataka Kawano (University of Tokyo), Kirill Shtengel (UC Riverside), Matjaž Gomilšek (Slovenia & Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana)

1:00 PM → 8:00 PM Excursion: Niagara Falls Day Trip (optional)

Thursday, May 29

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Advances in Theory

Speakers: (Invited) Stephen Winter (Wake Forest University), Emily Zhang (Stanford University), SungBin Lee (KAIST), Urban Seifert (University of Cologne)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Multipolar Physics

Speakers: (Invited) Satoru Nakatsuji (University of Tokyo, Japan), Bruce Gaulin (McMaster University), Ivica Zivkovic (EPFL), Xavier Boraley (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Advances inTheory II

Speakers: (Invited) Chisa Hotta (The University of Tokyo), Ludovic Jaubert (CNRS & University of Bordeaux), Chris Hooley (Coventry University), Daniel Lozano-Gómez (Technische Universität Dresden)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Poster

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Conference dinner

Friday, May 30

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Pyrochlore Lattice

Speakers: (Invited) Paul McClarty (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin), Sylvain PETIT (LLB, CEA-CNRS-Université Paris Saclay), Natalia Drichko (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University), Han Yan (The University of Tokyo)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Quantum Magnetism II

Speakers: (Invited) Liuyan Zhao (University of Michigan), Peter Holdsworth (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Nic Shannon (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University), Masafumi Udagawa (Gakushuin University)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Advances in Experiment

Speakers: (Invited) Jeffrey Quilliam (Département de physique, Université de Sherbrooke), Linda Ye (California Institute of Technology), Alex Frano (University of California San Diego)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Quantum Magnetism III

Speakers: (Invited) Zi Yang Meng (University of Hong Kong), Ganesh Ramachandran (Brock University), Harry Lane (University of Manchester), Jakob Nagl (ETH Zurich)