Events#

MMM Prague #

Keynote talk at the 11th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modelling, Sep 22-27, 2024 in Prague (Czech Republic).

Thomas Schrefl, “Multiscale design of permanent magnets”

Focus group workshop on using AI for the development of Green Materials#

How can AI be used to develop novel materials which have smaller environmental impact or support the Green Transformation? On Oct. 9, 2024, a focus group of high-level experts from research and industry met at MCL to tackle this topic in the framework of the study Study-AI4GreenMat (https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5121362). Thomas Schrefl represented the MaMMoS project. After a presentation of preliminary results from an extensive research and the online survey (https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/AI4GreenMat) by Jürgen Spitaler and Hans-Peter Gänser from MCL, the participants worked hard on elaborating crucial aspects such as most promising materials, AI methods and use cases, sector-wise potential and requirements in terms of infrastructure and legal boundary conditions. The outcome of the workshop will feed into the study, which is done for the Austrian Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK: https://www.bmk.gv.at/en.html).

DPG Spring meeting 2025, JEMS 2025 #

The DPG Spring Meetings 2025 will take place between 10th March and 4th April 2025. New phases for PM (RE-free and RE-lean) from ab initio studies, transfer of data to larger length scales will be presented.

General public @ lab #

Up-coming on 12th October 2024: Science en Fetes 2024 – lab open day; Short presentation about strategic nature of magnets, element criticality and micro-magnets, in front of a sputtering system

IEEE Magnetic Frontiers Conference on Magnetic Materials and Motors for Green Energy Applications, Darmstadt #

15th -19th September 2024: Present high throughput combinatorial thin-film approach being developed and applied in the framework of MaMMoS

AI4AM2024 – Artificial Intellegence for Advanced Materials #

From 02nd – 04th July AI4AM2024 takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Timoteo Colnaghi (Max Planck Computing and Data Facility) takes part in the conference with his contribution “The role of AI and ML in the development of a Multiscale modelling suite for sustainable magnetic materials” Download abstract!

ICM2024 – International Conference on Magnetism #

From 30th June to 5th July ICM 2024 took place in Bologna, Italy. A Focus Session under the topic of Magnetism in the age of AI was chaired by Thomas Schrefl (UWK) and with Heike Herper (Uppsala University) as invited speaker. Focus Session: Magnetism and Spintronics at the 2D/Interface Frontier with invited speaker Nora Dempsey (CNRS).

Materials Week 2024 – Strategic R&I for the Value Chains of the Future #

From 17. to 21. June 2024 MaterialsWeek 2024 took place in Cypres. MaterialsWeek 2024 aims to bring together – for the first time – the numerous small and large Research and Innovation (R&I) communities that are driving advances in materials innovation manifested across diverse calue chains and industrial markets. Magnetic Multiscale Modelling Suite, Thomas Schrefl

Dresdner Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Dresden Long Night of Science)#

14th June 2024: An open evening of all scientific institutes and universities in Dresden. IFW presented an experimental stand showing demonstrators of permanent magnets. he event offered the opportunity to successful communication with many tens of visitors over a period of 5 hours.

Science City Day Hamburg #

1st June 2024: Each institution on the DESY campus, including MPSD, open their doors to the public to showcase research, and experiments. This year we were demonstrating the Foucault pendulum and were engaged with hundreds of adults and children on the physics behind the Foucault pendulum.

Lange Nacht der Forschung #

On 24. May 2024, the Lange Nacht der Forschung took place at various venues across Austria. Our research booth in Krems showcased how micromagnetic simulations and artificial intelligence can accelerate the discovery of eco-friendly, sustainable, and cost-effective permanent magnets. Visitors actively participated in the research by drawing magnets with various phase distributions and crystal structures using felt-tip pens. Our trained AI then analyzed their designs, predicting their potential performance. Through discussions, we emphasized the importance of magnet research for the green energy transition in the fight against climate change.

2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of EMMC #

On 7th May the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of EMMC took place in Cambridge (UK) and online.

Scientists @ high-school#

6th May 2024: “Amazing Physics” at the International High School (lycée Europole) in Grenoble. A Full day spent in the school by Nora Dempsey and William Rigaut. PPT presentation from Nora Dempsey, short oral presentation by William Rigaut and hands-on experiments about magnetism.

Intermag 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil #

5th – 10th May 2024: Presentation in the Intermag 2024 Conference by Sam Holt; Inform researchers about the phenomenon of Discretisation Anisotropy in micromagnetic simulations and how to avoid artifacts it creates.

Politicians @ lab#

30th April 2024: Lab visit by Raphaël Glucksmann (Member of the European Parliament) and entourage. After a short presentation about strategic nature of magnets, element criticality and micro-magnets, in front of a sputtering system a printed copy of “Rare Earth Magnets and Motors: A European Call for Action”, and a report by the Rare Earth Magnets and Motors Cluster of the European Raw Materials Alliance (Berlin 2021) was given to Raphaël Glucksmann

Revision of CWA 17815:2021: “Materials Characterisation - Terminology, Metadata and Classification” - CEN-CENELEC (cencenelec.eu)#

The workshop organized from EMMC related initiative NanoMeCommons-CEN Workshop took place on 24th April 2024

Young Researchers Skyrmion Retreat 2024 #

21st – 25th April 2024: Sam Holt presented information about the phenomenon of Discretisation Anisotropy in micromagnetic simulations and how to avoid artifacts it creates to young researchers and PhD students in the field of magnetism using micromagnetic simulations.

MaMMos and Open Model#

On 3rd April 2024 with Alex Simperler and Otello Roscioni. Intro to Open Model Functionality and how it can aid with the developments in MaMMoS.

JOINT WORKSHOP ADVANCED MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION AND MODELLING PROJECTS#

February 26th, 2024

KICK-OFF MEETING#

Wiener Neustadt, January 9-10, 2024