Jul 16 2009
The International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) is the most important international conference for scientists conducting research in the fields of magnetism and magnetic materials. ICM 2009 will take place in Karlsruhe under the auspices of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). 1500 scientists from 40 countries will meet from July 26 to 31 at the Kongresszentrum (Stadthalle). Nobel Prize laureates Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg will be present at the press conference on July 27.
It is the second time that the ICM takes place in Germany. Last time, it was held in Munich in 1979. The first ICM Conference on Magnetism was organized in 1958 in Grenoble, France. Since that time, the conference has taken place every three years in various parts of the world. The last two conferences were held in Rome (2003) and Kyoto (2006).
With its 400 oral presentations and 1600 poster contributions, the ICM 2009 will focus on various aspects of magnetism in fundamental research and technical application. Scientific highlights of the conference will be strongly-correlated electron systems and novel effects of spin-dependent electron transport. The latter is a phenomenon, by means of which information might be transported with hardly any losses in future storage media. Apart from magnetic storage materials, the presentations will cover latest developments of magnetic nanostructures, magnetic and photonic materials as well as high-temperature superconductors. In the future, these materials will probably be applied in information processing and energy technology.