The First Session of Symposium on Research in High Magnetic Fields Held

The first session of Symposium on Research in High Magnetic Fields HMF was held in the Pulsed High Magnetic Filed Center PHMFC of Huazhong University of Science and Technology HUST between October 7 8. The symposium was initiated by Academician Zhang Yuheng from University of Science and Technology of China USTC and Professor Yao kailun from the Pulsed High Magnetic Field Center of HUST. More than 40 researchers and postgraduates from the College of Physics of USTC, Heifei Institute of Physical Science, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and the College of physics of HUST attended this symposium.

On the morning of October 7, the symposium officially commenced and Professor Li Liang, Director, PHMFC of HUST gave an opening address. He pointed out that a great variety of significant research findings had been yielded on the high magnetic fields and nearly 20 Nobel Prizes have been awarded for the work in this field. Professor Li also emphasized that the construction of Pulsed High Magnetic Field Facilities PHMFF should be based on the scientific researches in this area, and that this symposium would facilitate the construction.

In his keynote speed, Zhang Yuheng, member of the CASS expounded on the latest development in spintronics, which encompasses fields of magneto-electronics and quantum electronics. Following the introduction to Giant magnetoresistance, he also detailed the studies of magneto-electronics in the past few decades, including many important theories and experimental discoveries like the Hubbard model.

Later more than 20 researchers presented the scientific research in SMF covering a wide spectrum from condensed matter physics, optics, chemistry to biology and materials science. Many of their research results were published in Nature, PRL, APL, PRB and other top international academic journals. Among them, Professor Lu Qingyou s self-made measuring equipment has been granted a couple of domestic and international patents.

On the morning of October 8, Professor Yao Kailun made the closing remarks with the conclusion that the symposium was fruitful. A total of 23 lectures were delivered on SMF covering four research fields including strongly correlated systems, low-dimensional systems, spin electronics and condensed matter theory.

The seminar will serve to accomplish multiple goals, guiding the future developments of the SMF and promoting the researches in physics and material science by making good use of the SMF experimental platform.

Finally, it was suggested that, jointly organized by The Strong Magnetic Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS and PHMFC of HUST, the symposium on SMF be held on a regular basis for the purpose contributing to the construction, running and application of the SMF experimental facilities which is a major national Big Science project.