Julie Grollier, born in 1975, first graduated from the engineering institute Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité before obtaining a diploma from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan. Her Ph.D. (obtained in 2003), supervised by Albert Fert, focused on “Spin transfer induced magnetization switching”. This spintronic phenomena allows to manipulate the magnetization of nano-objects simply by current injection, without the help of an applied external magnetic field. As a post-doc, first in Groningen University (Netherlands, group of B.J. van Wees), then in Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale (France, group of C. Chappert), she studied the magnetization dynamics of nano-magnets. In 2005, she received a permanent position as a researcher in the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, where she is leading the Spin Transfer Nano-Oscillators team together with her colleague Vincent Cros.
In 2010 she was awarded the “Jacques Herbrand” prize of the French Academy of Science, for her pioneer work on spin transfer. The same year, she received a prestigious European Research Council grant to start a new project on Memristive Artificial Synapses and their integration in Neural Networks (ERC starting grant “NanoBrain”).
AIMS The “Memristors for Computing” workshop aims at bringing together different communities interested in memristor devices and their applications, from condensed matter to hardware implementation. Here memristor is taken in the broadest sense, ranging from binary to multi-state memories, to be used for logic, reconfigurable or neuromorphic architectures.
FORMAT The workshop will consist of invited talks and poster sessions. Meals and accommodation are free of charge.
INVITED SPEAKERS
REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE : Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.trt.thalesgroup.com/ump-cnrs-thales/memco/