Conferences and Workshops
We (co-)organize conferences, symposia, focus sessions, topical sessions, workshops, meetings, and tutorials.
2025
New Era for Magnetism 2025
12 September 2025, Jülich, Germany
2023
WE-Heraeus workshop 2023
First-principles Green function formalisms: algorithms, method developments and applications to spinorbitronics and magneto-superconductivity
4 September -7 September 2023, Athens, Greece
Generously supported by the WE-Heraeus foundation and the Psi-k charity.
Spin-QX 2023
Spintronics and Quantum Transformation
7 August -10 August 2023, Jülich, Germany
ETSF Informal Meeting 2023 
Amsterdam, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
15 May - 17 May 2023
Generously supported by the Institute of Physics (University of Amsterdam) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
2021
SPP1666-2021
Topology in modern condensed matter physics and beyond:from fundamentals to quantum applications
06 - 8 October 2021, near by Munich , Germany
Generously supported by the DFG-SPP 1666
2019
Summer School 2019
 Frontiers in Time-Resolved Science: Spin, Charge and Lattice Dynamics in Condensed Matter
 Bad Honnef, Germany
 August 19-23, 2019
2018
Spice Workshop: Ultrafast Spintronics
 Ultrafast Spintronics: from Fundamentals to Technology
 Mainz, Germany
 October 23 – 26, 2018
 
Peter Grünberg Honorary Session
 at 9th Joint European Magnetism Symposium (JEMS)
 Mainz, Germany
 September 5, 2018
Explorative Workshop: Spintronic Perspectives on Neuromorphic Computing
 Joint Workshop of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany
 and Center for Spintronics Research Network (CSRN), Japan
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 August 13-15, 2018
 
Symposium at the DPG Spring Meeting 2018
 Symposium Information Driven Materials Research
 Berlin, Germany
 March 12, 2018
 
658th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar
 Spins Out of Equilibrium: Manipulating and Detecting Quantum Magnets
 Bad Honnef, Germany,
 January 8 – 10, 2018
 
2017
Psi-k/CECAM research conference "Computational Spinorbitronics"
 Pescara, Italy
 September 25 – 29, 2017
60 Years of Progress in Magnetism
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 May 18 – 19, 2017
CECAM/Psi-k Workshop
 All electron DFT with FLEUR - a Hands-on Tutorial
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 May 8 - 12, 2017
48th IFF Spring School 2017
 Topological Matter - Topological Insulators, Skyrmions and Majoranas
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 27 March 27 – April 07, 2017
2016
VITI Workshop
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 December 01 – 02, 2016
EU-JAPAN  Workshop on Computational Materials Design and Realization for  Spintronics, Moltronics, Quantronics, Superconductivity and Topotronics
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 September 18 – 30, 2016
FET Open MAGicSky
 Ibis Aachen
 July 18 – 19, 2016
30. Umbrella Symposium: From Quantum Matter to Materials
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 April 11 – 13, 2016
Focus session "Ultrafast spin currents for spin-orbitronics: from metals to topological insulators”
 of the Annual German Physical Society Meeting
 Regensburg, Germany,
 March 11, 2016
2015
Workshop on Challenges in Multiferroics & Magnetoelectrics
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 October 12 – 14, 2015
JSPS-Jülich Core-to-Core Workshop on Computational Materials Design on Green Energy
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 September 14, 2015
Tutorium "Magneto-transport properties in spiralling spin textures”
 of the Annual German Physical Society Meeting (DPG)
 Berlin, Germany,
 March 17, 2015
584. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar
 Green’s Functions in ab-initio electronic structure calculations of solids: From implementations to applications
 Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
 February 8 – 11, 2015
2014
juDFT: Hands-on DFT codes from Jülich
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 September 22 – 26, 2014
Focus session "Spin-Orbit Torque at Surfaces and Interfaces”
 of the Annual German Physical Society Meeting (DPG)
 Dresden, Germany,
 April 2, 2014
45th IFF Spring School 2014
 Computing Solids: Models, Ab-initio Methods and Supercomputing
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 March 10 – 21, 2014
19th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations 
 European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
 Zaragoza, Spain
 23 -26 September 2014
New Trends in Topological Insulators (NTTI) 
 Berlin-Brandenburg academy of sciences, Berlin, Germany
 July 7-10 2014
2013
18th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations
 European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
 University of Luxembourg
 1 - 4 October 2013
Magnetic excitations: from surfaces down to adatoms
 Focus session at the DPG Spring Meeting 2013
 Regensburg, Germany
 March 11, 2013
2012
Spin-orbit-driven transverse transport phenomena
 520. Wilhelm und Else Heraus Seminar
 Bad Honnef, Germany
 December 2 – 6, 2012
Advanced Green function methods
 17th ETFS Workshop on Electronic Excitations
 Coimbra, Portugal
 October 2 – 5, 2012
CECAM/Psi-k Workshop
 Functional Molecules on Surfaces: New Building Blocks for Nano-Spintronics
 GSI Bonn, Germany
 October 2 – 4, 2012
 Flyer Multiscale Seminar (PDF, 180 kB) 
 Maritime Hotel Köln, Germany
 June 18 – 19, 2012
Psi-k Research Conference: Computational Oxide Spintronics (CompMag 2012)
 Cranage Hall, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, UK
 May 6 – 10, 2012
Topological Transport in Systems with broken Time Inversion Symmetry
 Focus session at the DPG Spring Meeting 2012
 Berlin, Germany
 March 26, 2012
 Nano-Tribology Course 2012  Announce ESF (PDF, 79 kB) 
 Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
 January 16 – 27, 2012
2011
Spin Structures/Skyrmions
 Focussed session at the DPG Spring Meeting 2011
 Dresden, Germany
 March 16, 2011
CECAM/Psi-k Workshop
 Muffin-tin recipes - Hands-on workshop on electronic structure calculations with the FLEUR code
 Forschungszentrum Jülich
 February 7 – 11, 2011
 Nanotribology Course 2011 (PDF, 76 kB) 
 Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
 January 17 – 28, 2011
2010
Workshop on Computational Magnetism and Spintronics (CompMag 2010)
 GSI Bonn, Germany
 May 10 – 12, 2010
41st IFF Spring School 2010
 Electronic Oxides – Correlation Phenomena, Exotic Phases and Novel Functionalities
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 March 8 – 19, 2010
Ph.D winter school on Nano-Tribology
 Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen
 January 18 – 29, 2010
449. Wilhem and Else Heraeus Seminar:
 Rashba and related spin-orbit effects in metal
 Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
 January 6 – 8, 2010 
2009
Oxide Miniworkshop 2009
 Tagungshotel Schleiden, Germany
 April 23 – 24, 2009
Focus session at the DPG Spring Meeting 2009
 Spin-Orbit Interaction at Surfaces: From the Rashba Effect to Topological States of Matter
 Dresden, Germany
 March 23 – 27, 2009
40th IFF Spring School 2009
 Spintronics – From GMR to Quantum Information
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 March 9 – 20, 2009
2008
NanoFerronics-2008
 International Workshop on Nanoferronics: Novel multifunctional metal-oxide tun-nel-junctions relevant for future devices
 Hotel Ibis Normaluhr Aachen, Germany
 October 9 – 10, 2008 
2007
38th IFF Spring School 2007
 Probing the Nanoworld – Microscopies, Scattering and Spectroscopies of the Solid State
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 March 12 – 23, 2007
2006
Conference on Computational Magnetism and Spintronics (CompMag 2006)
 Forschungszentrum Jülich
 October 2 – 4, 2006
37th IFF Spring School 2006
 Computational Condensed Matter Physics
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 March 6 – 17, 2006
NIC Winter School 2006
 Computational Nanoscience: Do It Yourself!
 Forschungszentrum Jülich
 February 14 – 22, 2006 
2005
40 Years of the GW Approximation for the Electronic Self-Energy:
 Achievements and Challenges
 356. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar
 Bad Honnef, Germany
 September 12 – 15, 2005
36th IFF Spring School 2005
 Magnetism goes Nano
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 February 14 – 25, 2005
2004
Full-Potential linearized Augmented Planewave Workshop
 Forschungszentrum Jülich
 December 10 – 11, 2004
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE WORKSHOP
 Hands-on-FLEUR
 TANDAR / Buenos Aires
 October 12 – 16, 2004
2003
34th IFF Spring School 2003
 Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics
 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
 March 10 – 21, 2003