Technical Categories

  1. Fundamental Properties and Cooperative Phenomena
    1. Critical phenomena 
    2. Highly frustrated magnetism and spin glasses
    3. Quantum Spin Liquids
    4. Heavy Fermions and f-electron magnetism
    5. Molecular and organic magnets
  2. Magnetoelectronic Materials and Phenomena
    1. Multiferroics and magnetoelectric phenomena
    2. Complex Oxides
    3. Topological insulators and Dirac materials
    4. 2D and layered van der Waals materials
    5. Magnetic semiconductors
    6. Heusler alloys
  3. Soft Magnetic Materials
    1. Ferrites and garnets
    2. Crystalline alloys
    3. Amorphous and nanocrystalline materials
  4. Hard Magnetic Materials
    1. Rare earth compounds
    2. Intermetallic alloys
    3. Nanostructured hard magnetic materials
    4. Other hard magnetic materials
  5. Structured Materials
    1. Thin films and surface effects
    2. Multi-layered films and superlattices
    3. Patterned films
    4. Exchange bias
    5. Nanoparticle and nanowire arrays
    6. Individual nanoparticle and nanowire behavior
  6. Materials with Coupled Magnetic Functionality
    1. Magneto-Optical materials
    2. Magneto-Elastic materials
    3. Magneto-Caloric materials
    4. New coupled magnetic phenomena
  7. Spintronics: Fundamentals and Devices
    1. Magnetoresistance and Hall effect (homogenous materials)
    2. Magnetoresistance in heterostructures (GMR, TMR, TAMR)
    3. Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy and switching
    4. MRAM, magnetic logic, and related devices
    5. Spin injection and spin transfer torques
    6. Spin currents, spin pumping, spin Hall, and related effects
    7. Antiferromagnetic spintronics
    8. Skyrmionics and noncollinear spin textures
    9. Spins in graphene, topological insuators, and 2D materials
  8. Magnetization Dynamics and Micromagnetics
    1. Magnetization dynamics, damping, and ultrafast switching
    2. Spin waves
    3. Domain wall dynamics and devices
    4. Micromagnetic and hysteresis modeling
  9. Magnetic Recording
    1. Recording Media
    2. Energy-assisted and optical recording
    3. Recording systems and modeling
  10. Sensors (not Magnetic Recording), High Frequency and Power Devices
    1. Sensors (non-recording)
    2. Microwave and millimeter wave materials and devices
    3. Power and control magnetics
    4. Transformers and inductors
    5. Shielding and levitation
    6. Motors: Control and Drives
    7. Motors: Modeling and Simulations
    8. Motors: Applications
    9. Motors: Actuators
    10. New applications
  11. Magnetic Characterization
    1. Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques
  12. Interdisciplinary and Emerging Topics
    1. Bio-magnetism and Biomedical applications
    2. Magnetic fluids and separations
    3. Chemical magnetism, geomagnetism, and emerging topics