The European Conference PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM'02
1-5 July, 2002 Poznan, Poland
Report on the European Conference Physics of Magnetism'02 Sponsored
by the European Science Foundation Organised by
Andrzej Jezierski
Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Roman Micnas
Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
The European Conference Physics of Magnetism'02 took place in Poznan, Poland from 1-5 July 2002. The Conference was the tenth of the series organised every three years since 1975 jointly by the Institute of Molecular Physics Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics Adam Mickiewicz University.
The Conference was as an international forum for presentation and discussion of novel scientific ideas in a field of magnetic phenomena with special emphasis of the following subjects:
- novel metallic oxides and anomalous magnetoresistive materials
- low dimensional quantum magnets
- heavy fermions, fluctuating valence and Kondo systems
- magnetic multilayers, surfaces and nanostructures
- high temperature superconductors
- electronic structure by ab-initio methods
The main objective of the Conference was to bring together scientists and technologists from the Western, Central and Eastern European countries involved in research and applications of new magnetic materials and high temperature superconductors. 232 researchers from 22 countries spent five days discussing physics of new magnetic materials.
The plenary talks were presented by 24 invited scientists: 4 from Poland, 6 from USA, 8 from Germany, 1 from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and England.
Programme of the Conference consisted of plenary talks and contributed papers presented in oral form or as posters.
The proceedings containing plenary and selected papers will be published as a regular issue of physica status solidi.
During the Conference we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
It was important that the part of participants was PhD students and post docs from ab-initio group whose stay was supported by ESF.
The full list of participants and all abstracts are provided on the website http://www.ifmpan.poznan.pl/zp2/pm02.html
Andrzej Jezierski (Poznan)
More details may be found in newsletter 52 from page 34