2018 Events

Tuesday February 8^th	Magnetic Force Equations based on Computer Simulation and the Effect of Load Line Dr. Christina Chen, Quadrant Inc. and Magnet Energy LLC
Thursday February 22^nd	Derivation and Real-World Use of DQ Current and Voltage Loop Control for Motor Drives Tony O’Gorman, President, PESC Inc.
Thursday April 5^th	Machine-Learned Assessment and Prediction of Robust Solid State Storage System Reliability Physics Dr.Jay Sarkar, Western Digital Corporation.
Thursday April 26^th	Optimizing Custom Magnetics for High-Performance Power Supplies Michael D. Seeman, President and Founder, Eta One Power Inc.
Saturday May 19^th	The History of the Moving Coil Actuator in Disk Drives Dr. Art Wagner, Consultant in Magnetics and Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University.
Tuesday May 22^nd	Challenges and Opportunities for X-ray Spectro-microscopies in Magnetism and Spintronics Dr. Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Santa Cruz
Tuesday June 5^th	Hard Disk Drives: The Giants of the Storage Industry Dr. Edward Grochowski, Computer Memory/Storage ConsultantDr. Peter Goglia, President, VeriTekk Solutions and CTO, L2Drive Inc.
Saturday June 23^th	Storage’s Today and Tomorrow Allen Liu, Data Storage ExpertMichael Zhu, VP of Western Digital
Friday July 13^th	Spin Conversion Phenomena in Spintronics Yoshichika Otani, Professor, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo (DISTINGUISHED LECTURER)

Tuesday July 17^th	Talk 1: Anti-ferroelectric materials for non-volatile digital data storage Talk 2: Multiferroic technologies for magnetic data storageDr. Melvin Vospon. Senior Lecturer in Applied Physics at the University of Portsmouth and head of the Applied Materials Laboratory
Wednesday July 18 ^th	Talk 1: Advanced MTJ and CPP-GMR devices using Heusler alloys for magnetic memory and data storage Dr. Zhenchao Wen. Assistant professor, Institute for Materials Research and Center for Spintronics Research Network (CSRN), Tohoku University Talk 2: Manipulation of spin current in antiferromagnetic insulators Dr. Dazhi Hou, Assistant professor, WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
Tuesday July 24^th	Cavity Spintronics Dr. Can-Ming Hu, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba. One of 2018 (DISTINGUISHED LECTURER)
Tuesday Oct. 23^th	Structural Magnetostrictive Alloys: From Flexible Sensors to Energy Harvesters and Magnetically Controlled Auxetics Dr. Alison B. Flatau, Professor of University of Maryland, USA (DISTINGUISHED LECTURER)
Monday Dec. 3^rd	Magnetic Phase Interference in Artificial Magnetic Lattices: Functions and Applications to Optical, High-Frequency, and Spin Wave Devices Mitsuteru Inoue Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan (DISTINGUISHED LECTURER)

Meetings in 2017

Tuesday January 10^th	Ultrafast and Very Small: Discover Nanoscale Magnetism With Picosecond Time Resolution Using X-Rays Dr. Hendrik Ohldag, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, California, USA
Tuesday February 21^th	A Look at Reducing Energy Consumption with More Efficient Electric Motors John Petro, Consultant
Tuesday April 11^th	Spin Transfer Torque Magneto-Resistive Random Access Memory Barry Hoberman, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc.
Tuesday May 2^th	Evolution of Disk Drive Head Positioning Systems and Servo Track Writers Dick Oswald
Wednesday May 24^th	Regenerating Codes For Distributed Storage Mary Wootters, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Thursday May 25^th	Limitations to Miniaturization of Magnetic Components Eyal Aklimi, Ph.D., Diamond Nanotechnologies
Tuesday June 13^th	Digital Storage Technology Roadmaps & Implications for Cloud Computing Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates, Inc. Roger F. Hoyt, Ph.D., Technology Consultant.
Tuesday August 1^th	The Hall Effects Edwin Hall Never Imagined Xiaofeng Jin, Professor, Fudan University, China
Tuesday August 8^th	Functionalized Hybrid Nanomagnets: New Materials for Innovations in Energy Storage and Medical Theranostics Michael Farle, Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia
Tuesday September 12^th	Magnetic Nanoparticles: Building Blocks of Future Magnets J. Ping Liu, Professor, University of Texas, Arlington
Tuesday November 14^th	EV & Transportation Applications of Permanent Magnet Materials Don Christian, Sr Life Member, IEEE

Meetings in 2016

Tuesday January 26^th	Flash Memory: Current, Future and Challenges Dr. Dengtao Zhao, Violin Memory
Tuesday March 1^st	Magnetization Dynamics in Nanostructures and Thin Films Dr. Hans T. Nembach, National Institute of Standards and Technology and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Monday March 7^th	Materials challenges for next generation high-density magnetic recording – media and readers Prof. Kazuhiro Hono, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
Tuesday April 19^th	Magnetics + Mechanics + Nanoscale = Electromagnetics Future Greg P. Carman, University of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday May 24^th	An Array of Ferromagnetic Nano-Islands Non-Destructively Patterned Via a Local Phase Transformation by Low-Energy Proton Irradiation Jongill Hong, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Tuesday June 7^th	Spin Dynamics in Inhomogeneously Magnetized Systems Teruo Ono, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Tuesday June 28^th	The World’s First Magnetic Printer Andy Keane, Polymagnet Correlated Research
Tuesday October 4^th	Beyond Moore’s Law: Magnetic Skyrmions and Magneto-Ionics Kai Liu, University of California, Davis, CA
Tuesday November 15^th	The Magnetic Hard Disk Drive: Today’s Technical Status and Its Future Edward Grochowski, Computer Memory Storage Consultant, and Peter Goglia, Plasma Therm

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