Nanoscaled Magnetism and Applications
Authors: Zhukov Arcady 
Published: May 2014

This issue collects the proceedings of the Donostia International Conference on Nanoscaled Magnetism and Applications (DICNMA 2013). The DICNMA 2013 conference was held at the Miramar Palace between 9th and 13th September, 2013. It was organized with three daily parallel sessions. 330 abstracts from 36 countries have been submitted, of which about 280 were presented at the conference.

It is worth mentioning that during the last 15 years we organized several international conferences, such as Magnetism of Nanophase Materials (1998), Recent Research on Novel Magnetic Structures and Their Applications (2000), International Workshop on Magnetic Wires (2001), Third Joint European Magnetic Symposia, JEMS‐2006, International Workshop on Magnetic Wires (2008), and Recent Trends on Nanomagnetism, Spintronics and Applications (RTNSA‐2011). Consequently, we organized DICNMA 2013 continuing the tradition of holding international scientific events in San Sebastián. Moreover, in organizing DICNMA 2013 we wanted to cover all aspects of the previous conferences. Consequently, the conference has provided a forum for the magnetism community to discuss new concepts, properties and developments in all branches of fundamental and applied magnetism, as well as on magnetic materials and their applications.

We are grateful to the major contribution from the worldwide community of magnetism. The Program Committee consisted of all topical session chairs with their active participation on selection of works presented at the conference. The conference program composed of two plenary and six semiplenary talks, 75 invited talks and 101 selected oral talks, which were arranged with three parallel oral sessions in addition to two poster sessions with 82 presentations. We are grateful for their hard work and dedication for the selection of very high level presentations and their harmonic sequence in the sessions.

We are especially grateful to Prof. Albert Fert, Nobel laureate, who gave a plenary talk on Monday 9th September, 2013, Prof. Stuart Parkin who gave another plenary talk and to other distinguished plenary and semi‐plenary speakers.

More than 60 full text papers were submitted for the special issue; after peer review, 56 papers were accepted for publication in the proceedings of the conference.

All papers have been refereed in accordance with regulations of the physica status solidi (a) and (c) journals.

We hope that this special issue of physica status solidi (a) and (c) will provide a unique opportunity for many researchers, who are involved in different areas of magnetism of modern magnetic materials to share new ideas and concepts in this research field and favoring different discussions about the future basis and perspectives on the entire field and potential technological applications for the industry. We hope that this issue will bring interesting information to the readers and will be useful for people involved in this subject of scientific research.

We are very pleased to have worked with Wiley as the publisher of the conference proceedings with special thanks to Stefan Hildebrandt.

On behalf of the organizing and international advisory committees I would like to thank the invited speakers, reviewers and the authors who have made contributions for their cooperation, which has made the conference a really international one with a unique success.

I would also like to thank Sofia Zhukova and Paola Benito for invaluable efforts for the conference organization as the general secretaries. We are grateful to the Conventional bureau of San Sebastián for the financial support and Summer School of the Basque Country University for the support and continuous attention.

The immensely rich and diverse scientific program composed of topical sessions that were proposed by excellent scientists working in corresponding fields of magnetism. The focused sessions are given below with corresponding session organizers' names. Without their active involvement, invaluable contribution and support, this conference could not have been a real success. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)