Spirited scientific discussion, exuberance at having passed the 50-branch mark, and concern over the NSF site review of I2CAM going on concurrently made for a heady mix at the ICAM/ I2CAM annual meeting, which was held January 14-17, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One hundred and six participants, representing almost every branch of ICAM, gathered in the historic Southwest-style inn, La Fonda, to review recent work and to plan for future interaction. Read more »

A continuation of NSF support for I2CAM through July 2009 was the hoped-for outcome of a site visit carried out January 14 and 15 in conjunction with the annual ICAM conference in Santa Fe. I2CAM’s members were not disappointed: the review panelists, headed by Dr. Carmen Huber of NSF’s Office of Special Programs, recommended funding for a fifth year contingent on certain suggested changes to foster more inclusiveness. Read more »

The idea that future devices may rely on manipulating electrons not through their charge, but through their intrinsic magnetic moment, or spin, has inspired research on how to control the transport, or movement, of spins and how to manipulate and utilize the magnetic texture of new compounds. Read more »

ICAM is pleased to welcome as its 54th branch Johns Hopkins University, one of the leading research universities in the U.S., whose facilities include the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), an Institute for NanoBio Technology, Applied Physics Laboratory, and facilities at the nearby NIST Center for Neutron Research, including the multi-million-dollar cold-neutron scattering spectrometer MACS (Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer). Read more »

At a virtual meeting in April 2008 the Board of Governors approved two new awards designed for scientist couples-the I2CAM Partner Opportunity Postdoctoral Exchange Award and the ICAM Partner Opportunity Fellowship. The first will be sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the second supported by branch contributions. The goal of these awards is to provide encouragement for the participation of women in ICAM-related science by awarding support to a deserving scientist couple. Both grew out of a suggestion by Erica Carlson of Purdue University during the NSF I2CAM site visit. Read more »

Since the inception of the I2CAM web pages four years ago, we have had a classified ads section available for members to use. This required a log-on to the account to both view and post ads. Read more »