The Principles and Applications of Symmetry in Magnetism (PASM) Summer School is supported by the National Science Foundation and brings together leading researchers to provide a pedagogical introduction to modern spin-related physics.
While symmetry remains a unifying theme, the scope of the school spans frontier directions in quantum geometry, magnetism, topological transport, correlated phenomena, quantum sensing, and computational approaches.
The program is designed for students, postdoctoral researchers, and researchers working on spin and magnetic systems in both theory and experiment, with ample opportunity for discussion and interaction.
Confirmed Lecturers and Topics
- Ran Cheng (UC Riverside)
- Antiferromagnetic dynamics
- Chunhui Du (Georgia Tech)
- Quantum sensing of quantum materials
- Satoshi Okamoto (ORNL)
- Electron correlation and Hall effects
- Yaroslav Tserkovnyak (UCLA)
- Symmetry-enabled topological transport and entanglement generation
- Binghai Yan (Penn State)
- Unconventional magnetism and quantum geometry
- Qimin Yan (Northeastern University)
- Symmetry and AI
- Gen Yin (Georgetown University)
- Computational quantum geometry
Apply
Application is free and open until May 1, 2026. Apply here.
Location
PASM 2026 lectures will be held in Scott Bioengineering Building, Room 101 on the Colorado State University campus.
| Building | Scott Bioengineering Building |
| Room | Room 101 |
| Floor | First floor |
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Schedule
Monday, July 13th
| 9:15am-9:25am | Welcome |
| 9:30am-10:20am | Lecture 1-1 (Ran Cheng) |
| 10:20am-11:00am | Coffee break |
| 11:00am-11:50am | Lecture 2-1 (Satoshi Okamoto) |
| 11:50am-1:30pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30pm-2:20pm | Lecture 1-2 (Ran Cheng) |
| 2:30pm-3:20pm | Lecture 3-1 (Yaroslav Tserkovnyak) |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Poster Session A |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Discussion |
Tuesday, July 14th
| 9:30am-10:20am | Lecture 4-1 (Chunhui Du) |
| 10:20am-11:00am | Coffee break |
| 11:00am-11:50am | Lecture 4-2 (Chunhui Du) |
| 11:50am-1:30pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30pm-2:20pm | Lecture 2-2 (Satoshi Okamoto) |
| 2:30pm-3:20pm | Lecture 3-2 (Yaroslav Tserkovnyak) |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Poster Session B |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Discussion |
Wednesday, July 15th
| 9:30am-10:20am | Lecture 4-3 (Chunhui Du) |
| 10:20am-11:00am | Coffee break |
| 11:00am-11:50am | Lecture 1-3 (Ran Cheng) |
| 11:50am-1:30pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30pm-2:20pm | Lecture 2-3 (Satoshi Okamoto) |
| 2:30pm-3:20pm | Lecture 3-3 (Yaroslav Tserkovnyak) |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Poster Session C |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Discussion |
Thursday, July 16th
| 9:30am-10:20am | Lecture 5-1 (Binghai Yan) |
| 10:20am-11:00am | Coffee break |
| 11:00am-11:50am | Lecture 5-2 (Binghai Yan) |
| 11:50am-1:30pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30pm-2:20pm | Lecture 6-1 (Gen Yin) |
| 2:30pm-3:20pm | Lecture 6-2 (Gen Yin) |
| 3:30pm-4:20pm | Lecture 6-3 (Gen Yin) |
| 4:20pm-5:00pm | Discussion |
Friday, July 17th
| 9:30am-10:20am | Lecture 5-3 (Binghai Yan) |
| 10:20am-11:00am | Coffee break |
| 11:00am-11:50am | Lecture 7-1 (Qimin Yan) |
| 11:50am-1:30pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30pm-2:20pm | Lecture 7-2 (Qimin Yan) |
| 2:30pm-3:20pm | Lecture 7-3 (Qimin Yan) |
| 3:30pm-4:20pm | Lecture 7-4 (Qimin Yan) |
| 4:20pm-5:00pm | Closing discussion |
Poster Sessions
Poster sessions will take place from 3:30pm to 4:30pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Poster Session A: Magnetic Textures, Dynamics, Imaging, and Materials
| No. | Presenter | Poster Title |
| A1 | Jefferson Carter | Title not specified |
| A2 | Joshua Chaparro Mata | Magnetic Hardening in vdW Magnet (Fe0.64,Ni0.36)5GeTe2 Driven by Annealing-Induced Structural Reorganization |
| A3 | Nemat Farhadi | Ferromagneto-Elastic Resonance in a Low-Damping Polycrystalline Ferromagnetic Alloy |
| A4 | Jarred Grant | Surface Morphology and Electronic Properties of Cleaved Centrosymmetric EuAl4(001) |
| A5 | Colin Langton | Influence of Curvature and Geometric Chirality on Magnetic Configurations in Möbius Nanostructures |
| A6 | Dhan Raj Lawati | Nanoscale quantum imaging of antiferromagnets Mn3GaN using nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond |
| A7 | Achintya Mitra | Exploring Unconventional Domain Walls of Few-Layer van der Waals Magnets |
| A8 | Yanyan Zhu | Guiding spin waves with hyperbolic magnets |
Poster Session B: Spin Transport, Torques, and Devices
| No. | Presenter | Poster Title |
| B1 | Ali Almahmoud | Seed Layer Influence on the Anomalous Hall Effect in Polycrystalline Antiferromagnetic FeMn |
| B2 | Reaz Bhuiyan | Higher Order Spin Magnetic Multipole Moments Relevant to Antiferromagnetic Spintronics |
| B3 | Elyssa DeVisscher | Effect of Neighboring Copper Layers on the Spin Hall Conductivity of a Heavy Metal/Ferromagnet Bilayer |
| B4 | Mohammad Hamdi | Theory of cluster octupole transfer torque in all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions |
| B5 | Friedrich Hanrath | Dynamic response properties in magnetic materials from All-Electron DFPT |
| B6 | Volodymyr Shablenko | Electric excitation of spin resonance in altermagnetic and antiferromagnetic conductors |
| B7 | Hamed Vakili | Supercurrent-Driven Neel Torque in Superconductor/Altermagnet Hybrids |
| B8 | Zihui Zeng | Ionic Tuning of Magneto-Transport in Noncollinear Antiferromagnet Mn3NiN Thin Film |
Poster Session C: Altermagnets, Topology, Quantum Geometry, and Materials Design
| No. | Presenter | Poster Title |
| C1 | Kamal Das | Linear Magnetoresistance as a Probe of the Neel Vector in Altermagnets with Vanishing Anomalous Hall Effect |
| C2 | Sparsh Ghimire | “Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic d4 Oxides” |
| C3 | Himanshu Mavani | Title not specified |
| C4 | Guy Moore | Title not specified |
| C5 | Omar Taha | Title not specified |
| C6 | Neelam Tariq | Development of Functional Porous Magnetic Hybrid Metal Halides |
| C7 | Bibek Tiwari | Title not specified |
| C8 | Yufei Zhao | Surface-State-Driven Anomalous Hall Effect in Altermagnetic MnTe Films. |
Participant Roster
The roster below lists confirmed PASM 2026 participants by name and affiliation.
| Name | Affiliation | Position / Title |
| Bilal Ahmed | University of South Florida | PhD student |
| Reem Alharbi | Applied physics | Phd student |
| Moaz Ali | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Ph.D. |
| Ali Almahmoud | Virginia Tech, The Department of Physics | PhD student |
| Reaz Bhuiyan | Colorado State University | PhD Student |
| Jefferson Carter | University of Wyoming | Graduate Research Assistant |
| Joshua Chaparro Mata | Department of Applied Physics – Yale University | PhD Student |
| Timothy Corbett | Georgetown University | PhD Student |
| Noah Cowper | University of Wyoming | Graduate student |
| KAMAL DAS | WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE,Israel | Post doc |
| Prithwiraj Das | Colorado State University | PhD student |
| Kuangyin Deng | University of California, Riverside | Postdoctoral researcher |
| Serena Determan | Colorado State University | PhD Student |
| Elyssa DeVisscher | University of Denver | PhD student |
| Mohamed Elekhtiar | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | PhD student |
| Nemat Farhadi | Virginia Tech | Graduate Research Assistant |
| Adam Friedland | Colorado State University | Physics PhD Student |
| Sparsh Ghimire | Colorado State University | Graduate Student |
| Jarred Grant | University of Wyoming | PhD Student |
| Mohammad Hamdi | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow at Tserkovnyak Group |
| Friedrich Hanrath | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University | PhD Student |
| Colin Langton | Georgetown University | PhD Student |
| Dhan Raj Lawati | University of nebraska-lincoln | PhD student |
| Dai Nam Le | University of South Florida | Postdoctoral researcher |
| Kyoungpyo Lee | University of Texas at Austin | Ph.D. graduate student |
| Miao Li | Georgia Tech | PhD student |
| Yang Liu | UCR | PhD student |
| Ruel Malcolm | University of Wyoming | Lab assitant |
| Himanshu Mavani | Department of Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | PhD student |
| Yulia Maximenko | CSU | Assistant Professor |
| Achintya Mitra | Colorado State University | PhD Student |
| Guy Moore | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Postdoctoral researcher |
| Aishat Ojuolape | Colorado State University | PhD student |
| Alexander Petrovic | University of Wyoming | Assistant Professor |
| Paul Rutherford | UC Riverside | PhD Student |
| Edward Schwartz | University of Nebraska – Lincoln | PhD Student |
| Volodymyr Shablenko | University of South Carolina | PhD student |
| Afsana Sharmin | CSU | Phd Student |
| Benjamin Snitzer | University of California-Riverside | PhD Student |
| FNU Swati | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | PhD student |
| Omar Taha | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | PhD student |
| Muhammad Tahir | Lumen Technologies | Senior Data scientist |
| Neelam Tariq | university of south florida | PhD Student |
| Bibek Tiwari | University of Missouri-Columbia | PhD student |
| Sergei Urazhdin | Emory University | Professor |
| Hamed Vakili | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Postdoc |
| Kai Vylet | UC Santa Barbara Physics | PhD student |
| Zihui Zeng | Georgetown University | PhD student |
| Yufei Zhao | Penn State University | PhD student |
| Yanyan Zhu | University of California, Los Angeles | PhD student |
Lodging Support
Lodging support will be available for a limited number of non-CSU participants. Support will be provided up to an amount aligned with shared on-campus housing rates for the full duration of the summer school (approximately $351 for 6 nights).
Participants are responsible for making their own lodging arrangements. CSU Guest Housing provides a convenient on-campus option, but participants may arrange alternative accommodations if preferred.
Reimbursement is contingent upon attendance and submission of appropriate receipts. Any costs exceeding the awarded support amount are the responsibility of the participant.
Hotels within walking distance of CSU:
Hilton: 425 W Prospect Rd, Fort Collins, CO 80526
Best Western University Inn: 914 S College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80524
Additional lodging options are available throughout Fort Collins.
Dining
The Summer School does not provide any meals except coffee and tea during coffee breaks. You are welcome to explore the many restaurants near the CSU campus.
On-campus dining options include:
The Foundry (Dining Center) (MAP)
Ram’s Horn (Dining Center) (MAP)
Parking and Transportation
Metered parking is available at the Engineering parking lots. More information on visitor parking including daily permits can be found here.
Groome Transportation is typically the most convenient option between Denver International Airport (DEN) and Fort Collins.
For transportation on CSU campus and around Fort Collins, please refer to the links below:
WiFi Access
Look for csu-guest in your WiFi settings. This is an unsecured and open network for guest access only. This provides access to the internet but not to CSU resources. Connections will act the same as coming from off campus. You will need to accept the Campus Acceptable Usage Policy to use this network.
Informal Participant-Led Activities
Fort Collins is great to visit during the summer–Things to do in Fort Collins
PASM 2026 will not organize official excursions or off-site activities. However, participants are welcome to self-organize informal small-group activities, such as dinner outings, campus/downtown walks, or local exploration in Fort Collins. We will provide an online communication channel for participant-led plans. Participation in these informal activities is entirely optional and is not part of the official PASM program.
Sponsors
Organizing Committee
- Hua Chen (Chair, Colorado State University)
- Ran Cheng (University of California, Riverside)
- Qimin Yan (Northeastern University)
