Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science

Statement of Task To assess the current state and future prospects of high-field magnet science and technology in the United States. To assess the current status of U.S. high-field efforts in the international context. What are the trends in the international arena? To identify particularly promising multi-disciplinary areas for research and development with respect to high magnetic fields. To discuss and prioritize any major new initiatives in the construction of high-field magnets for the coming decade.

Membership

NRC Staff

Meetings

First Meeting: September 4-5, 2003, Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC.

Second Meeting: December 8-9, 2003, NHMFL, Tallahassee, FL.

Third Meeting: March 27-28, 2004, Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC.

Final Report

The committee published its final full report, “Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science.” If you would like a free copy of this report, please write to bpa@nas.edu.

The committee released the unedited prepublication draft of the final report to the public on Friday, January 14, 2005.

Interim Report

Community Input

Dear Colleague,

The National Research Council (NRC) has established a committee called the Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science (COHMAG). Its mission is to produce a report on the facilities available to scientists worldwide for doing experiments at high magnetic fields (i.e., at fields above 12 T), the current state of the many scientific disciplines that use high field magnets, the scientific opportunities these fields present, and the prospects for advances in related technologies. With this message COHMAG invites you to send it any information or opinions you feel should be taken into account during its deliberations. Specifically, how have high magnetic fields had an impact on your research? How have you taken advantage of facilities at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) or other high-field magnet centers? What new facilities or new capabilities would be most valuable to you? In what new areas of research are high magnetic fields likely to have a large impact? Any other comments?

Why did the NRC set up COHMAG? Earlier this year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) commissioned the NRC to generate a report on the scientific issues that surround the generation of high magnetic fields and their use in scientific research. Given that the last major report covering this area was issued a decade and a half ago, a new study seems both appropriate and timely.

COHMAG is distributing this message to as many members of the high magnetic field community as possible because it wants to be sure that all voices have been heard before it issues its report. In order to reach as many people as possible, this message is being distributed using email lists obtained from several different organizations, and they, inevitably, are overlapping. We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message.

If you have information you want to transmit to COHMAG, please communicate it by email to cohmag@nas.edu, and thank you for your help.

For COHMAG,

Peter B. Moore, Chair

Input Received as of 01/28/2004

Paul Canfield	Richard Beger
William Halperin	Fritz Herlach
Seung Hong	Martha Morton
Neela Pooransingh	Kwaku Dayie (first)
Kwaku Dayie (second)	M Dolotenko (first)
M Dolotenko (second)	Michael Hall
Robert Leif (letter)	Robert Leif (paper)
Gerard Martinez	Craig Milling
Alfred Redfield	Jack Crow
Horst Stormer	Juergen Haase
Andrew Maverick	Florin Neacsu
Jim Rhyne	Sheldon Schultz
Cees Thieme	David Weber
Walter Chazin	Thomas Erber
Bolzoni Fulvio (letter)	Bolzoni Fulvio (paper)
Bruce Hammer	William Moulton
Walter Chazin	Sidharta Chatterjee
Oscar Bernal	Magnex Scientific, Inc.
Roy Goodrich (letter)	Roy Goodrich (document)
Lawrence Rubin	Janice Musfeldt
Dean Peterson	Joshua Telser (paper)
David Cowburn	Gerard Ludtka 1 and Ludtka 2
Roy Weinstein	Nicholas Zumbulyadis

International Facilities

For comparison and reference, the committee is considering the following set of high magnetic field facilities around the world. Please send comments to cohmag@nas.edu if you believe the committee should expand this list.