Progress report for Southampton-XFEL

Marijan Beg and Hans Fangohr

April 2017 - June 2018

Finance and administration

Completed move from the University of Southampton to the European XFEL GmbH. No problems encountered and nothing to report.

Hiring

New OpenDreamKit position advertised.
Shortlisting and interview stages completed.
Top three candidates are selected.

Achievements

Updated proposal and JOOMMF work plan to reflect the removal of WP7
T2.7 Open source dissemination of micromagnetic VRE
- Repositories for source code under github.com/joommf
- Set up publicly accessible Jenkins/Travis CI
- Added Docker image containing JOOMMF and all its dependencies to DockerHub
- Another announcement made to the community via micromagnetic mailing list
- Conda installation done for OOMMF and all JOOMMF packages (OSX and Linux)
- Set up read the docs for every code repository
- Set up code coverage for all code repositories
- Some unresolved problems with conda installation of OOMMF on Windows
T2.8 Micromagnetic VRE dissemination workshops
- Workshops
  - Four workshops completed
  - One workshop scheduled
  - Details in the “Workshops and dissemination activities” section
- Publications, conference contributions, and tutorials listed in the “Other” section.
T4.14 Online portal for Micromagnetic VRE demonstrator
- No separate machine was purchased to host it; using existing hardware at University of Southampton instead (courtesy of EPSRC Center for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling)
- Online portal is based on Docker and provides the anonymous use of JOOMMF
- Available here
- Allows users to re-execute the tutorial and documentation notebooks
- It will develop over time as further extensions to JOOMMF are made (T3.8 and T4.11) and more tutorial notebooks written (T4.13)
T4.13 Demonstrator: MVRE notebooks
- Jupyter notebooks documenting specific features of JOOMMF
- Tutorials used for workshops (here)

Work in progress

Further work and extensions in all work packages.
T3.8: Further developments and extensions (OOMMF Python interface)
T4.9 & T4.11: 3d visualisations of vector fields, and widgets
T2.7: conda package for windows

Workshops and dissemination activities

Four workshops have been completed in this period:

Institute of Physics (IOP) Magnetism conference, 04 April 2017, York, UK
- details about the workshop here
- about 30 participants
- organisers did not allow us to have the details of registered participants due to data protection
- 19 participants provided their details directly to us: 6 females, 13 males
- Workshop conducted jointly with Michael Donahue - developer of OOMMF
- Workshop materials (tutorials and exercises) are available here
- Co-funded with EPSRC CCP Computational Magnetism Network (EP/M022668/1)
Intermag 2017 conference, 24 April 2017, Dublin, Ireland
- One of the major conferences in the field of magnetism research
- 50 registered participants, plus 7 additional attendees
- Two sessions: main workshop event and the follow up session
- The follow up session was used to go into more details about specific features of JOOMMF and to receive feedback and requests from users
- Co-funded with EPSRC CCP Computational Magnetism Network (EP/M022668/1)
62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 06-10 Nov 2017, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- One of the major conferences in the field of magnetism research
- Workshop conducted informally with JOOMMF users and people who want to start using it
- Received feedback from the users as well as the feature requests
Advances in Magnetism 2017, 04-07 February 2018, La Thuile, Italy
- Tutorial session for all conference attendees
- Over 100 participants

One workshop has been scheduled for the upcoming period:

International Conference on Magnetism, 14-20 July 2018, San Francisco, USA
- Part of the official conference programme

One invited talk has been scheduled for the upcoming period:

9th Joint European Magnetic Symposia, 03-09 September 2018, Mainz, Germany

Other

Research output acknowledging OpenDreamKit in the period from April 2017 to January 2018:

Publications
- D. Cortés-Ortuño et al. Proposal for a micromagnetic standard problem for materials with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11174
- R. A. Pepper et al. Skyrmion states in thin confined polygonal nanostructures. Journal of Applied Physics 123, 093903 (2018).
- D. Cortés-Ortuño et al. Thermal stability and topological protection of skyrmions in nanotracks. Scientific Reports 7, 4060 (2017).
- M. Beg et al. Zero-field stable Bloch point. in preparation for submission (2018)
Invited talks
- M. Beg. Skyrmionic states in confined helimagnetic nanostructures. International Conference on Magnetism and Spintronics (Sol-Skymag 2017), San Sebastian, Spain, 19-23 June 2017.
Conference contributions
- H. Fangohr et al. Data analysis support in Karabo at European XFEL. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, Barcelona, Spain (2017).
- M. Beg et al. Stable magnetic singularity in helimagnetic nanostructures containing boundary between grains with different chirality. 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 6–10 November 2017.
- M. Beg et al. Proposal for a micromagnetic standard problem for materials with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 6–10 November 2017.
- R. A. Pepper et al. Skyrmionic state stability in polygonal helimagnetic nanostructures. International Conference on Magnetism and Spintronics (Sol-Skymag 2017), San Sebastian, Spain, 19–23 June 2017.
- D. Cortés-Ortuño et al. Thermal stability and topological protection of skyrmions in nanotracks. International Conference on Magnetism and Spintronics (Sol-Skymag 2017), San Sebastian, Spain, 19–23 June 2017.
- D. Cortés-Ortuño et al. Thermal stability and topological protection of skyrmions in nanotracks. IEEE International Magnetics Conference - Intermag 2017, Dublin, Ireland, 24–28 April 2017.
- R. A. Pepper et al. Ground state skyrmion and helical states in confined FeGe nanostructures. IEEE International Magnetics Conference - Intermag 2017, Dublin, Ireland, 24–28 April 2017.
- M. Beg et al. Isolated skyrmion dynamics in confined helimagnetic nanostructures. Institute of Physics (IOP) Magnetism 2017, University of York, York, UK, 3–4 April 2017.
- M. Beg et al. Computational micromagnetics with JOOMMF. Institute of Physics (IOP) Magnetism 2017, University of York, York, UK, 3–4 April 2017.
- M. Beg et al. Demagnetisation energy and magnetisation variation effects on the isolated skyrmion dynamics. Institute of Physics (IOP) Magnetism 2017, University of York, York, UK, 3–4 April 2017.