2026 Rice Workshop: Recent Developments on Altermagnetism, Nov. 9-11
2026 Rice Winter School: Recent Developments on Material Synthesis, Nov. 11-13

Co-sponsored by RCQM and RLEMM

**Tentative**

Workshop Agenda

Monday, November 9th

Time Event Location
8:00 - 8:45 am Registration and Breakfast OES 510
8:45 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks OES 510
Session I - Overview and Novel Materials
9:00 - 9:35 am Allan McDonald - “What’s the Deal with Altermagnets?” OES 510
9:35 - 10:10 am Jairo Sinova - “Emergent Altermagnetism at Surfaces of Antiferromagnets” OES 510
10:10 - 10:45 am Coffee Break OES 510
10:45 - 11:15 am Linda Ye - “Anomalous Hall effect in Altermagnet Candidate CrSe” OES 510
11:15 - 11:50 am Libor Smejkal - “TBA” OES 510
11:50 am - 12:15 pm Poster Blitz OES 510
12:15 - 2:00pm Lunch OES 510
Session II - Novel Probes
2:00 - 2:35 pm Joe Orenstein - “Coherent Magnons Driven by Photomodulated Anisotropy in Altermagnetic MnTe” OES 510
2:35 - 3:10 pm

Liuyan Zhao - “Optical Measurements of Altermagnetic Candidates”

OES 510
3:10 - 3:40 pm Coffee Break OES 510
3:40-4:15 pm Changyoung Kim - “Field-free switching of altermagnetic heterostructure” OES 510
4:15 - 4:50 pm Takatsugu Masuda - “Chiral Magnons and Switchable Altermagnetic Order in MnTe” OES 510
4:50 - 5:25 pm

Igor Zaliznyak - “Altermagnetic and dipole magnon splitting in FeF2 and emerging antiferromagnetism in candidate altermagnet Fe1-xCrxSb2”

OES 510

Tuesday, November 10th

Time Event Location
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast OES 510
Session III - Tuning and control
9:00 - 9:35 am Jiun-Haw Chu - “Ferromagnetic Control of Altermagnetic Domains in Cr-Doped MnTe” OES 510
9:35 - 10:10 am Riccardo Comin - “p-wave magnetism - from materials to devices” OES 510
10:10 - 10:30 am Coffee Break OES 510
10:30 - 11:05 am Song Cheng - “Highly efficient switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order” OES 510
11:05 am - 11:40 am Felix Casanova - “Time-reversal-symmetry-breaking spin injection from an altermagnet” OES 510
11:40 am - 12:15 pm Sijie Xu - “Strain-Tunable Anomalous Hall Effect in Hexagonal MnTe" OES 510
12:15 - 2:00 pm Lunch OES 510
Session IV - Strong Correlations
2:00 - 2:35 pm Jeroen Van den Brink - “The Fate of Band Splittings in Strongly Correlated Altermagnets” OES 510
2:35 - 3:10 pm Ronny Thomale - “Projective Quantum Matter Insights into Altermagnetism” OES 510
3:10 - 3:40 pm Coffee Break OES 510
3:40 - 4:15 pm Zheng Ren - “Anomalous Hall Sign Reversal in a Strongly-Correlated Altermagnet” OES 510
4:15 - 5:15 pm Discussion: Current progress and future directions OES 510
6:00 pm Workshop Banquet

Wednesday, November 11th

Time Event Location
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast OES 510
Session V - New Developments
9:00 - 9:35 am Nirmal Ghimire - “Anomalous Hall effect in altermagnetic materials” OES 510
9:35 - 10:10 am Kirill Belashchenko - “Rough-Surface Antisymmetry Guides Altermagnetic Spintronics” OES 510
10:10 - 10:30 am Coffee Break OES 510
10:30 - 11:05 am Qimiao Si - “Nonsymmorphic lattices and magnetic Weyl-Kondo semimetals” OES 510
11:05 - 11:40 am Sang-Wook Cheong - “Super-Altermagnetism” OES 510
12:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch OES 510

Winter School Agenda

Location: Space Science Technology Building – Room 300 (SST 300)
Rice University

Wednesday, November 11th

Time Event Location
12:00 - 1:20 pm Lunch SST 300
1:20 - 1:30 pm Opening remarks SST 300
1:30 - 2:30 pm Lecture 1 - Julia Zaikina (Iowa State University) SST 300
2:30 - 3:30 pm Lecture 2 - Xavier Roy (Columbia University) SST 300
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break/Walk to Practical SST 300
4:00 - 5:30 pm Practical Session 1

Thursday, November 12th

Time Event Location
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast SST 300
9:00 - 10:00 am Lecture 3 - Kai Xiao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) SST 300
10:00 - 10:15 am Coffee Break/Discussion/Walk to Practical SST 300
10:15 - 11:45 am Practical Session 2
11:45 am - 12:45 pm Lunch + Group Photo SST 300
12:45 - 1:45 pm Lecture 4 - Stephanie Law (Pennsylvania State University) SST 300
1:45 - 2:00 pm Coffee Break/Discussion/Walk to Practical
2:00 - 3:30 pm Practical Session 3
3:30 - 3:45 pm Walk to Practical
3:45 - 5:15 pm Practical Session 4
5:15 - 5:30 pm Coffee Break/Discussion/Walk to Lecture
5:30 - 6:30 pm Lecture 5 - Efrain Rodriguez (University of Maryland) SST 300
6:30 - 8:30 pm Conference Dinner at Valhalla Valhalla

Friday, November 13th

Time Event Location
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast SST 300
9:00 - 10:00 am Lecture 6 - Juan Chamorro (Carnegie Mellon University) SST 300
10:00 - 10:15 am Coffee Break/Walk to Practical
10:15 - 11:45 am Practical Session 5
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Lunch SST 300
12:15 - 1:15 pm Panel Discussion – Quantum Materials Synthesis in the Modern Era (moderated by Gayatri) SST 300
1:15 - 1:30 pm Closing Remarks SST 300