welcome FROM carl patton,
MAGNETICS SOCIETY PRESIDENT
As President for 2007-2008, I would like to welcome
you to the Magnetics Society website.
TO MEMBERS: If you are a member, these pages will give you
compete information on all of the member services and functions of the Society,
a directory of our energetic volunteers, and contacts and links for further
information. You are all invited to
GET INVOLVED as a volunteer as well. Please
feel free to contact me directly at patton@lamar.colostate.edu if you have
particular interests in specific activities or functions, or even if you have
no idea of how to get involved but simply have a desire to do so. I guarantee that we can find you some useful
and gratifying work for the Society and the magnetics community in general.
TO NON-MEMBERS: If you are NOT a member
of the Magnetics Society, please take this as my invitation for you to join
this vital community of engineers and scientists working in basic and applied
magnetism, magnetic materials, and magnetic devices. As you peruse these pages, you can see many
of the member benefits. Again, feel
free to contact me personally if you have any questions. I have been an IEEE member and a member of the
Magnetics Society for over 40 years. Besides
the many official benefits of IEEE and Society membership, my association
with the expanding and ever evolving community of engineers and scientists
on the forefront of work in magnetism has been a source of new colleagues
and friends as well as other close associations in the field ever since I
was a graduate student (a long time ago!). I encourage you to join us.
A FEW WORDS
ABOUT ME: Members and others often wonder how people end
up in these offices! Let me tell you
a little about my story. After getting
by PhD from CalTech in 1967, I first joined the Research Division of Raytheon
Company in Lexington, Massachusetts for a few years and then found myself
as an Associate Professor at Colorado State University, or CSU (where I have
been ever since!). It was not long
after that one of the officers of the relatively new IEEE Magnetics Society
invited me to take over as the Newsletter Editor.
(The Newsletter started as a crude mimeographed three or four page
handout back then.) Sometime later, I became an Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Magnetic. All along,
I also served one or two terms, now and then, on the Administrative Committee
(called the AdCom) of the Society. In
the early 1990s, other demands took me away from this volunteer work for the
Society until about five or six years ago. At that time I became involved in the discussions
and issues related to the Society sponsorship of the MMM Conference, and ended
up getting elected to the AdCom again after an absence of some years, and
then into the Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, President officer sequence.
My research interests span the gamut of magnetism and magnetic materials
topics, from metals and alloys to ferrites, from thin films to bulk materials,
and from domain walls to microwaves and spintronics.
Hot topics for my group these days include solitons, Brillouin light
scattering on magnons, microwave ferrites, nonlinear spin waves in metallic
thin films, multifunctional materials, and origins (if there are any) of the
ubiquitous damping parameter alpha.
A summary of society activities
and member benefits
PUBLICATIONS
TRANSACTIONS: One of the main activities and corresponding
member benefit of the Society is in the publication of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. Many consider this journal as the premier publishing
vehicle for work in the field of applied magnetism as well as certain aspects
of basic magnetism and magnetic materials. We encourage engineers and scientists at the
forefront of research and development work in basic and applied work in magnetics
to submit their archival papers to the Transactions.
NEWSLETTER: The Society also publishes a quarterly Newsletter
with information on new developments in the Society, special initiatives,
new and departing members of the Administrative Committee (the AdCom) of the
Society, special activities and changes related to the various standing committees,
and other news of interest. Members are encouraged to contact the Newsletter
Editors, Albrecht Jander and Pallavi Dhagat, with news items.
CONFERENCES
INTERMAG and
MMM: Another main activity is in the sponsorship
or co-sponsorship and organization of conferences on basic and applied magnetics.
Our principal conference is the annual Intermag Conference. This conference is organized on a three year
cycle: as a stand-alone conference in North America, then as the MMM/Intermag
Conference held jointly with the Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
(MMM), and then as a stand-alone Intermag Conference outside of
TMRC AND OTHER
CONFERENCES: In addition to the INTERMAG
and MMM Conferences, the Society also sponsors The Magnetic Recording Conference
(TMRC), a special meeting that focuses on timely aspects of information storage.
The Society also sponsors or co-sponsors a number of other meetings. The Society is always willing to consider sponsorship
of meetings and conferences in our technical area. Sponsorship without financial
responsibility for conferences within the Field of Interest of the Society
is relatively easy to arrange. The
Society is also receptive to proposals for conference sponsorship with financial
responsibility, subject to specific oversight and budgetary requirements mandated
by the IEEE and the Society. Further details may be obtained from the Chair
of the Conference Executive Committee.
STUDENT TRAVEL
AWARDS TO SPONSORED CONFERENCES: The Society,
as part of its outreach effort, supports a significant travel awards program
for students to attend and participate in the various conferences it sponsors.
Information is normally included in the Call for Papers for these conferences. Further information can also be obtained from
the Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee.
CHAPTERS
The Society has an active Chapters program with local groups, some large and some small,
over the world. The formation of new
chapters in all regions with sufficient member interest is encouraged and
promoted. Society resources are available
to promote the formation of new chapters and funds are available to support
chapter activities in the form of invited speakers, local workshops, and student
outreach, among other activities. Further
information may be obtained from the Chapters Chair.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURER PROGRAM
The Society also supports a significant Distinguished Lecturer Program. Each year, the Society names several of its
members to present tutorial lectures at local chapters and other suitable
venues over the world on current topics of interest in basic and applied magnetics.
The major portion of the travel costs for these lecture tours is supported
by the Society. The selected lecturers are world-class speakers
and leaders in current magnetics research fields. Distinguished lecture visits can be arranged
by contacting the speakers directly or by contacting the Distinguished Lecturer
Committee Chair.
EDUCATION
The Society also maintains an active education
program. The program includes the organization
of tutorial sessions at sponsored conferences, the collection and tabulation
of information and links to the various academic programs in basic and applied
magnetics around the world, and the sponsorship of special workshops and summer
schools aimed at students, postdoctoral researchers, and newcomers to the
field. Members with interests and new
ideas in this aspect of the Society outreach effort are invited to contact
the Education Committee Chair.
PARTICIPATION
The Society is a vibrant and dynamic international
organization that functions primarily through the dedicated efforts of its
volunteers. Approximately half of the
membership is from outside of
MEMBERSHIP
If you are working or have an interest in the field
of magnetics and are not yet a member of the IEEE and/or the Magnetics Society,
you are invited to join us. As you
will soon discover, Society membership provides remarkable value. From a purely monetary view, Society membership
provides substantial discounts on conference fees to attend sponsored meetings.
Generally the discount for members for a single conference can be comparable
to, and sometimes greater
than, the cost of membership. Members are also eligible to sponsor students
for travel awards to attend our sponsored conferences. Membership also provides access to chapter activities
and the Distinguished Lecturer Program as well as on-line access to the IEEE
Transactions on Magnetics at no extra cost.
IEEE and Society membership provides numerous other benefits in the
form of special low cost insurance programs, car rental discounts, and special
under age 25 car rentals in
If you are not yet a member of our community, please
click on the membership icon and find out how easy it is to join the IEEE
and/or the Society on line. If you
are an established professional in magnetics or a related field, you may already
be qualified to join the IEEE at the Senior Member grade.
Carl E. Patton
Magnetics Society President