The European Conference

PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM 96

June 24-28, 1996 Poznań, POLAND

CHAIRMEN

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS

_{1. P. Gruenberg}

_{Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany}

_{"Experiments on Interlayer Exchange Coupling"}

_{2. J. Kudrnovsky}

_{Institute of Physics, AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic and Institute of Electrochemistry, TU, Vienna, Austria}

_{"Interlayer Exchange Coupling: Effect of Alloying"}

_{3. T. Shinjo}

_{Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan}

_{"Magnetism and Magnetoresistance of Multilayers Prepared on Microstructural Substrates"}

_{4. P. Bruno}

_{Institut d'Electronique Fondamentalle, Universite Paris-Sud, France}

_{"Quantum Size Effects in Ultrathin Layered Magnetic Systems"}

_{5. K. Roell}

_{Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Kassel, Germany}

_{"Exchange Coupled Double Layers for Magneto-Optical Applications"}

_{6. P. Fulde}

_{Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany}

_{"Metals and Semimetals with Strongly Correlated Electrons"}

_{7. P. Wachter}

_{Laboratorium fuer Festkoerperphysik, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland}

_{"Unusual Magnetism in Rare-Earth and Metalloorganic Compounds"}

_{8. W. Suski}

_{W. Trzebiatowski Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland}

_{"Magnetism of the Uranium Intermetallics"}

_{9. J. Jensen}

_{Oersted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark}

_{"Threefold Symmetric Magnetic Two-Ion Coupling in hcp Rare-Earth Metals"}

_{10. G.A. Gehring}

_{Department of Physics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.}

_{"Application of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group to Problems in Magnetism"}

_{11. P.A. Lindgard}

_{Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark}

_{"Properties of Magnetic Nano-Particles"}

_{12. S. Kaprzyk}

_{Department of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, University of Mining and Matallurgy, Kraków, Poland}

_{"Spin Density in Real and Momentum Space in Multiatom Alloys by KKR-CPA Method"}

_{13. A. Jezierski}

_{Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland}

_{"Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Intermetallic Compounds"}

_{14. T. Dietl}

_{Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw, Poland}

_{"Influence of Magnetic Impurities upon Universal Conductance Fluctuations"}

_{15. T. Story}

_{Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw, Poland}

_{"Correlations Between Electronic and Magnetic Properties in Semimagnetic Semiconductors"}

_{16. D.C. Johnston}

_{Ames Laboratory - USDOE and Department of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University, USA}

_{"Magnetic Susceptibility of Sr2CuO3 and SrCu2O3"}

_{17. C.M. Varma}

_{AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., USA}

_{"Non-Fermi Liquid States of a General Model of Cooper-Oxide Metals"}

_{18. T. Schneider}

_{IBM Research Division, Zuerich Research Laboratory, Switzerland}

_{"Universal Critical Quantum Properties of Cuprate Superconductors"}

_{19. B.L. Gyorffy}

_{H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K.}

_{"de Haas- van Alphen Oscillations in Superconducting State"}

_{20. B. Barbara}

_{Laboratoire de Magnetisme Louis Neel, CNRS, Grenoble, France}

_{"Magnetism at sub-Micron Scale and Quantum Tunneling in Magnets"}

_{21. J. Kirschner}

_{Max-Planck Institut fuer Mikrostruktur, Halle, Germany}

_{"Correlation of Magnetism and Structure in Ultrathin Films"}

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Committee for Scientific Research

Ministry of National Education

Committee of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Stefan Batory Foundation

International Science Foundation

Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy S.A.

Lech Browary Wielkopolski S.A.

PREFACE TO THE PROCEEDINGS

      The European Conference "PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM 96" was held on June 24-28, 1996 in Poznań. The Conference was organized jointly by the Institute of Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. It was the eighth conference of the series organized every 3 years since 1975.

       The present Conference was meant as an international forum for the presentation and discussion of novel scientific ideas, in a field of broadly understood magnetic phenomena and new magnetic materials, with special emphasis on the following subjects:

- Films, Multilayers and Nanostructures,

- Correlated Electrons,

- High- T_c Superconductivity,

- Electronic Structure.

       The main objective of the Conference was to bring together scientists and technologists from the Western, Central and Eastern European countries involved in research and application of new magnetic materials and high temperature superconductors.

       The program of the conference consisted of 21 invited talks, presented by distinguished physicists from Europe, USA and Japan. Besides, more than 280 contributions were presented in either poster or oral form.

       The invited talks provided by the Authors, as well as 116 selected contributed papers are published in the Conference Proceedings, consisting of the present and two forthcomming volumes of Acta Physica Polonica A.

      The major sponsors of the Conference, Committee for Scientific Research, Ministry of National Education, Committee of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Stefan Batory Foundation, International Science Foundation, Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy S.A. and Lech Browary Wielkopolski are kindly acknowledged.

       We are grateful to the Editors of Acta Physica Polonica A for their kind agreement to publish the Proceedings in the present volumes^(*) .

^(*) Acta Physica Polonica A vol. 91 no. 1&2 and vol. 92 no. 2 (1997)