to Magnetism -- Spintronics: Conceptual Building Blocks -- Interaction of Polarized Light with Matter -- Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Optical Devices -- X-Ray Magnetic Dichroism -- X-Ray Detected Optical Activity -- X-Ray Detected Magnetic Resonance: A New Spectroscopic Tool -- Resonant X-Ray Scattering and Absorption -- An Introduction to Inelastic X-Ray Scattering -- XAS and XMCD of Single Molecule Magnets -- Magnetic Structure of Actinide Metals -- Magnetic Imaging with X-rays -- Domain Wall Spin Structures and Dynamics Probed by Synchrotron Techniques -- Dynamics of Mesoscopic Magnetic Objects -- From Third- to Fourth-Generation Light Sources: Free-Electron Lasers in the UV and X-ray Range.

Advances in the synthesis of new materials with often complex, nano-scaled structures require increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques that can probe the electronic states, the atomic magnetic moments and the magnetic microstructures responsible for the properties of these materials. At the same time, progress in synchrotron radiation techniques has ensured that these light sources remain a key tool of investigation, e.g. synchrotron radiation sources of the third generation are able to support magnetic imaging on a sub-micrometer scale. With the Fifth Mittelwihr School on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation the tradition of teaching the state-of-the-art on modern research developments continues and is expressed through the present set of extensive lectures provided in this volume. While primarily aimed at postgraduate students and newcomers to the field, this volume will also benefit researchers and lecturers actively working in the field.