The 7th Joint Intermag-MMM Conference was held
January 6-9, 1998 at the Hyatt Regency
Embarcadero Hotel in San Francisco, California USA.
The conference, whose General Chairman was Prof. William
Doyle from the University of Alabama,
was the best attended Joint Conference ever, with more
with more than 1800 registrants.
The conference program was extensive, covering a broad and interesting range of basic and applied magnetism. There were a total of 1143 oral and poster presentations. The sessions on magnetic recording were particularly well attended, at least in part due to attendance by representatives of recording companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Three evening sessions were well attended. On Monday evening, the Magnetics Society Education Committee sponsored a tutoral on magnetic imaging. Five presentations on domain imaging by Lorentz, scanning probe and magnetooptic microscopy were made. On Tuesday evening, the the Micromagnetics Activity Group (muMAG), sponsored by NIST, hosted a workshop/discussion session on computational micromagnetics. Lessons learned from the variety of results for muMAG standard problem #1 were used to select a second standard problem for specification and an anonymous round robin. Also, the muMag Public Code Working Group presented the initial release of its micromagnetic software package. Information about this program can be found at http://math.nist.gov/oommf/ The special session on Thursday evening was entitled "Past and Future of Magnetic Storage". The session opened with a talk by Prof. Mark Clark of the Oregon Institute of Technology on the early history of magnetic recording. Experts from industry (Robert Scranton, IBM; Gordon Knight, Terastor; Gary Rauh, Seagate, and Yoshimasa Miura, Fujitsu) then offered their predictions of the future of magnetic information storage. The session concluded with an interesting panel discussion moderated by Prof. Mark Kryder of Carnegie Mellon University in which writen questions from the audience were addressed by the industrial experts.
Representatives from forty seven companies diplayed their products and services at exhibit booths. The exhibit booths were in the same room as the posters and attendance was good.
Manuscripts from the conference which have been accepted by the reviewers will be published in the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and the Journal of Applied Physics.
Photographs in this newsletter were taken by Richard Dee during the Joint Conference.
The 1998 Joint MMM/Intermag Conference expresses its warm appreciation to the following for their generous support:
$2500 and above
Motorola
$2000 and above
$1000 and above
$500 - $999
$250 - $499
Other contributions
Jean-Pierre Lazzari was born on March 14, 1939. He received the Ph.D.
degree from the University of Grenoble in 1969.
Dr. Lazzari has spent a long and illustrious career in the field of data
storage. Beginning as a researcher at Laboratoire d'Electronique
Technologie d'Information (LETI)(CEA) in Grenoble in 1962, he worked on the
development of a new thin film media for disk recording and thin film
heads. By 1971, he had joined CII Honeywell in Paris, where he was the
director of a magnetic recording laboratory. There he focused on the
laboratory and had responsibility for the company's magnetic peripheral
products. He then spent three years heading up the Honeywell/Bull
Technology Research Center where he participated in the development of
magnetic printers, MR badge readers, tapes and disk thin film heads and
advanced CMOS technologies. He returned to LETI (CEA) Grenoble in 1982.
The 1980's found Dr. Lazzari combining his expertise in both silicon and
magnetics technology. The result was a new approach to led to the
commercial realization of "planar" magnetic heads. The planar design
provides a major performance advantage for inductive heads over the
conventional thin film heads.
During this period he was elected Chairman of Basic and Long Term Research
of the EEC's Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative (JESSI). In this
capacity he managed advanced microelectronic research in Europe.
In 1991 Dr. Lazzari co-founded SILMAG (Silicon and Magnetism), along with
Roberto Gemi and Hubert Jouve, to mass produce the planar inductive heads.
He is currently focusing on extending thin head technology to incorporate a
magnetoresistive read transducer based on the phenomenon of giant
magnetoresistance.
Dr. Lazzari has filed over 120 patents, 35 of which have been for SILMAG,
and authored 70 invited papers.
A member of IEEE, he has received many awards, including the SIA Medal
(1981), the Blondel Medal (1982), the Semour Cray Prize (1989) and the
Information Technologies European Award (1995).
The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award was established by
the Board of Directors in 1991 and may be presented annually "for
outstanding contributions to the field of information storage, with
emphasis in the area of computer storage." Recipient selection is
administered by the Awards Board through its Technical Field Awards Council.
The Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and five thousand
dollars, and is sponsored by IBM Corporation. It is named in honor of
Reynold B. Johnson, who is renowned as a pioneer of magnetic disk
technology and was founding manager of the IBM San Jose Research and
Engineering Laboratory, San Jose, California in 1952.
Past recipients of the award are:
1993 - John M. Harker
Prior to the establishment of the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson
Information Storage Award, the IEEE Magnetics Society presented
the Magnetics Society Information Storage Award.
Winners of this award were
Sidney M. Rubens (1987),
Jay W. Forrester (1988),
Reynold B. Johnson (1989),
M. Camras (1990),
Charles H. Coleman (1991), and
Claude Shannon (1992).
Stan Charap was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S.
in physics from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. from Rutgers
University. He started his professional career at the IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY in 1958.
In 1964 he joined the American-Standard Research Division and
advanced to Supervisor of the Solid State Physics Section in
the following year and Manager of the Physics and Electronics
Department in 1966. In 1968 he moved to Pittsburgh, PA to
Carnegie Mellon University as an Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering to maintain the department's research
program in magnetics as Professor Leo Finzi approached
retirement. In 1971 he was promoted to the rank of Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU), serving as associate head of the department from 1980-1985,
and as acting head from 1981-1982. He was a founding member of the
CMU Magnetics Technology Center and served as the associate director
of the Data Storage Systems Center from its formation in 1990 until
his retirement on December 31, 1996.
Stan has been an outstanding researcher with numerous contributions to
magnetics and magnetics education. His early research included
fundamental work on spin wave theory in ferromagnetic metals and
domain wall dynamics. The results of measurements of the T(3/2) law
in nickel and iron with collaborators B. F. Argyle and E. W. Pugh has
been included in Kittel's popular text, "Introduction to Solid State
Physics". His work on magnetic bubbles in garnets and on current
sheet drive for bubbles anticipated developments at Bell Labs in these
areas. More recently, he has made significant contributions to the
understanding of thermal stability in high-density media and vector
Preisach modeling. The work on vector Preisach modeling was
highlighted in an invited paper at the 1992 MMM Conference; that on
thermal stability was featured in an invited paper at the 1996 TMRC
Conference.
Stan has also made significant contributions to engineering
education. He prepared the English edition of the text,
Physics of Magnetism by S. Chikazumi, which has been widely
used in the education of a generation of researchers in
magnetics.
While at Carnegie Mellon, Charap has been very active in university
governance and in the IEEE Magnetics Society. Among other things, he
served on the CMU Faculty Senate as senator, as vice-chairman and as
chairman. For the Magnetics Society, he served as Transactions editor,
chairman of the publications department, secretary/treasurer, vice
president and president. He was general chairman of the conference on
Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) in 1986 in Baltimore, MD, and
of the Joint Intermag-MMM Conference in 1994 in Albuquerque, NM.
Charap was designated the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished
Lecturer for 1996. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
In retirement Charap is continuing to be active in the Magnetics
Society, particularly on the Administrative Committee. He
also looks forward to completing a textbook on magnetics.
Prof. Charap is the 16th recipient of the Achievement Award.
Previous winners are:
The following new Fellows are members of the
Magnetics Society but were evaluated by another Society:
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activities, conferences,
workshops and other information of interest to the Society membership and
technical people in
the general area of applied magnetics. Copy is solicited from the Magnetics
Society membership,
organizers of conferences, officers of the Society and local chapters and
other individuals with
relevant material. The Magnetics Society Newsletter will
be published four times a year.
In 1998, the
paper version of the Newsletter will be sent to members of the
IEEE Magnetics Society and the electronic version, which
includes the contents of the paper version plus additional
information, is on the Magnetics
Society Web Page.
Commencing in 1999, the paper version of the Newsletter
will be discontinued and the Newsletter will
only be published only on the Web at
www.ieee.org/society/mag
Please send contributions to one of the co-editors:
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Courtesy Associates has served as Conference Coordinator
for numerous Intermag and MMM Conferences. They have
outgrown their previous quarters and their present
contact information is below. Our congratulations to
Courtesy Associates on their new home.
Courtesy Associates
The Magnetics Society has
reintroduced an annual award for the best paper published in the IEEE
Transactions on Magnetics during the prior calendar year. Magnetics
Society members are asked to submit nominations for the best paper
published in the Transactions in 1997 based upon the criteria: importance
of technical contribution, clarity of presentation, readability, and
originality. The winning paper will be the Society's nomination for the
IEEE's W. R. G. Baker Prize, given annually for the outstanding paper
reporting original work in any of the IEEE Transactions, Proceedings,
journals, or magazines published during the previous calendar year.
Fritz Friedlaender of Purdue University is
responsible for the Best Paper Award. He has appointed Jim Monson, Harvey
Mudd College, to coordinate the selection process. Briefly, the process
begins with submission of a nomination form by a Magnetics
Society member. The author(s) of the paper need not be members of the
Magnetics Society. Any paper published in the IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics during the
previous calendar year is eligible. The Editors and
Editorial Board and Publications Board
will select the best paper from
those nominated. They will follow a procedure similar
to those used for the W. R. G. Baker Prize, trying to avoid any possible
conflict of interest.
The deadline for this year's nominations is
March 1, so please nominate
your choice for outstanding paper soon.
A nomination form
is available on the Society's web page
www.ieee.org/society/mag. For further
information, please contact Jim Monson at (909) 621-8019 or e-mail:
James_Monson@hmc.edu
The 1997-98 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers
are Prof. David Jiles of
Iowa State University and Prof. Mula Shtrikman of
the Weizman Institute.
The tile of Prof. Jiles's talk is
"Modeling Magnetic Properties of Materials"
and Prof. Shtrikman's talk is entitled
"A Short Excursion into Magnetic Levitation".
Please contact
the speakers if you would like a presentation to
be made to your group.
Prof. David C. Jiles
Prof. S. Shtrikman
The 1998 Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC'98) will be held on August
17-19, 1998, at the Regal Harvest House Hotel in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
The focus of TMRC'98 is on magnetic recording heads. Information on TMRC'98
can be obtained on the web at http://www-iist.scu.edu/
TMRC'98 is primarily a conference of invited papers. Invited papers will be
presented in morning and afternoon oral sessions, and again for discussion
in the late-afternoon poster session. Authors of invited papers will submit
manuscripts for review for publication in the "IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics."
The poster session will also contain contributed papers. Contributed papers
will not be submitted for review through TMRC'98 for publication in the
"IEEE Transactions on Magnetics." Contributed papers are intended to be
papers from university students, and post-deadline papers whose results
merit quick circulation.
Information on TMRC '98 may be obtained from
the publicity chair:
Publicity Chair
The 43rd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel, Miami, Florida USA.
The Conference annually brings together scientists
and engineers interested in recent developments in all branches of
fundamental and applied magnetism. Emphasis is traditionally placed
on experimental and theoretical research in magnetism, the properties
and synthesis of new magnetic materials and advances in magnetic
technology. The program will consist of invited and contributed
papers. Selection of contributed papers is based on abstracts which
are due on
May 20, 1998. An Abstract Booklet will be available in
advance of the Conference from the American Institute of Physics.
Registrants will receive the booklet at the Conference. Proceedings
will be published in the Journal of Applied Physics.
Individuals who are not on the Conference mailing list may obtain
Conference information and details concerning the preparation of
abstracts by contacting either of the persons below.
Conference Coordinator
Publicity Chair
The latest information on MMM '98 can be obtained on World Wide
Web via the IEEE Magnetics Society Home Page:
http://www.ieee.org/society/mag
This topical conference is jointly sponsored
by the American Institute
of Physics and the Magnetics Society of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
in cooperation with
the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society,
the Office of Naval Research,
the American Society for Testing and Materials,
the American Physical Society,
and
the American Ceramic Society.
EMTEC Magnetics GmbH, formerly BASF Magnetics GmbH
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
Hewlett-Packard
Hitachi, Ltd. Central Research Laboratory
Imation
Quantum Corporation
Sony Corporation
Toda Kogyo Corp.
3M
Applied Magnetics Corporation
Komag
Digital Measurement Systems Division of ADE Technologies, Inc.
Eastman Kodak Company
Hyundai Electronics America, MaxMedia Division
F. G. Jones Associates, Ltd.
Innovative Instrumentation
Jean-Pierre Lazzari Honored with Information Storage Award at 7th Joint Intermag-MMM Confence
The 1998 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage
award was presented to Jean-Pierre Lazzari by IEEE
President Joseph Bordogna, at the awards
session of the 7th Joint Intermag-MMM Conference in
San Francisco, California.
The citation which accompanies Dr. Lazzari's award
reads:
"For contributions and key innovations in media and heads for magnetic disk
drives"
1994 - C. Dennis Mee
1995 - James U. Lemke
1996 - Nobutake Imamura
1997 - Alan F. Shugart
Stanley H. Charap Honored with Achievement Award
The 1998 Magnetics Society Achievement Award was awarded to
Professor Stanley Charap, Professor
Emeritus of Carnegie Mellon University,
during the Awards Session at the 7th Joint Intermag-MMM
Conference in
San Francisco, California USA.
New Magnetics Society Fellows for 1998
Three members of the Magnetics Society
were recently elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow.
The new Fellows
were recognized by
Daniel Stancil, President of the IEEE Magnetics
Society and
Fritz Friedlaender,
chair of the Awards Department of the Magnetics Society,
at the Awards Session of the 7th Joint Intermag-MMM Conference in
San Francisco, California USA.
The new Fellows evaluated by
the Magnetics Society and the contributions leading to their
awards are as follows.
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Magnetics Society Reintroduces Best Paper of the Year Award
IEEE Magnetics
Society Distinuished Lectureres for 1997-98
Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: 515-294-5655
Fax: 294-8727
email: gauss@ameslab.gov
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Department of Electronics
P.O. Box 26
Rehovot 76 100, ISRAEL
Fax: +972-8-934 4109
Email: feshtrik@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
TMRC '98 to be Held in Boulder, Colorado
Yung Yip
Imation Corp.
3M Center 236-GN-06
St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
TEL: (612)704-5091 FAX: (612)737-2801
E-mail: yyip@imation.com
MMM '98 to be Held in Miami, Florida USA
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036 USA
TEL 202-973-8668 FAX 202-973-8722
email:
magnetism@courtesyassoc.com
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Purdue University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285 USA
TEL 765-494-3524 FAX 765-494-2706
email:
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Conference Calendar
CMRR Research Review
UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
For information contact:
Cheryl Hacker
Ph: (619) 534-6563, FAX (619) 534-8059
E-mail:
chacker@ucsd.edu
APS Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
The Applied
Computational Electromagnetic Society
For information contact: Richard W. Adler,
ECE Dept/CodeEC/AB,
Naval Postgraduate School,
833 Dyer Road, Room 437, Monterey CA 93943-5121
TEL 408-646-1111 FAX 408-649-0300
http://www.emclab.umr.edu/aces
Joint NASA and IEEE Mass Storage Conference,
University of Maryland
University College Conference Center, College Park, MD
For information contact:
Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
E-mail: ben....@ nasa.gov
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
San Francisco, CA
For information contact:
MRS, Ph: (412) 367-3012, FAX: (412) 367-4373,
E-mail:
mailto:info@mrs.org
http://www.mrs.org
Information on high-density recording symposium at
http://www.mrs.org/meetings/spring98/cfp/l.html
CLEO, San Francisco, CA
ODS, Aspen CO
Chicago Illinois USA.
17th Annual Conference on Properties and Applications of
Magnetic Materials.
For more information, contact:
Bonnie Dow
Illinois Institute of Technology
TEL 312-567-6809 FAX 312-567-8976
Ames, Iowa USA.
Symposium on Microstructure and Microscopy of Magnetic
Materials. Information at
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/Pages/ece/m4.html
For more information, contact:
Dr. Madhav Rao Govindaraju
Karta Technology, Inc.
1892 Grandstand
San Antonio, TX 78238 USA
TEL 210-681-9102 (ext 312) FAX 210-681-9198
rao@karta.com