IOP Groups
The Magnetism Group
Current Research In Magnetism – 2007
The 2007 CRIM meeting was held in December and hosted in Birmingham by Professor Martin Long. The meeting began with an invited talk by Professor Russell Cowburn from Imperial College London on the topic of domain walls for spintronic memory. This was followed by series of six very good talks by young researchers on topics ranging from magnetic surface reconstruction in frustrated magnets by Melanie Hopper from Birmingham, through work on spin-polarised photoexcitation by Hidekazu Kurebayashi from Cambridge to an investigation pinning of domain walls in nanowires by Lara Bogart from Durham. The meeting also played host to a lively poster session over an extended break for lunch.
The talks and posters by the young researchers were judged separately and prizes were awarded in each category.
The prize for the best research talk was awarded to:
Akshay Rao from the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield for his talk entitled: "Organic Spintronics at Room Temperature"
The prize for the best poster was awarded to:
Justin Palfreyman from the Thin Film Magnetism Group at the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge University for his poster entitled: “Digital Biomagnetism”
A pdf version of the winning poster can be found here.
The aim of the Group is to stimulate interest in the subject and to advance the science and technology of magnetism. The Group was formed in 1965 and has a current membership of over 500.
The full range of activity in magnetism within the scientific and technical community is represented in the programme of events. The Group organizes a number of regular meetings, such as two workshops per year for postgraduate students on measurement techniques in magnetism, the annual meeting on Current Research in Magnetism (CRIM) aimed at giving students a chance to report on their work, and a meeting on Theory in Magnetism. We also sponsor the annual Wohlfarth Memorial Lecture at the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Division Conference. The programme of meetings is determined by the Committee, but we also respond to requests from the magnetism community. Some of the meetings are co-sponsored by such bodies as the UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society and the UK Magnetics Society.
One of our aims is to foster greater activity within the industrial community. We hope that close links with the EPSRC and industrial representation on the Committee will increase the level of UK activity in magnetism and magnetic materials.
A Group Newsletter, circulated to all members twice a year, includes details of the future programme, reports on important international meetings in magnetism, and general information.
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