Program:

Opening Session

9:00 - 9:05 Welcome Address
   Y. Nagano, Executive Vice President of NIMS
9:05 - 9:10 Introduction to Neel NIMS Nanoscience Laboratories (3N-Lab)
   S. Koizumi, 3N-Lab co-director, NIMS
9:10 - 9:30 Permanent magnet research at Elements Strategy Initiative Center for Magnetic Materials
   S. Hirosawa, ESICMM, NIMS

Technical Session

- 30 minutes talk and 5 minutes question and answer session.
9:30 - 10:05 What magnetic measurements bring to our understanding of coercivity
   D. Givord, Neel Lab
10:05 - 10:40 Coercivity mechanism of Nd-Fe-B magnets based on magnetic viscosity and FORC measurements
   S. Okamoto, IMRAM, Tohoku Univ.
10:40 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:25 Micromagnetics of magnetization reversal in permanent magnets - nucleation and pinning in focus
   T. Schrefl, Danube University of Krems
11:25 - 12:00 Possibility of rare earth permanent magnets other than Nd2Fe14B
   T. Miyake, AIST
12:00 - 12:35 Free rare earth or rare earth free magnets - vision and reality
   O. Gutfleisch, Technische Univ. Darmstadt
12:35 - 12:40 Group Photo Session
12:40 - 13:35 Lunch Break
13:35 - 14:10 High coercivity Dy-free Nd-Fe-B magnets
   K. Hono, NIMS and JST, CREST
14:10 - 14:45 Issues in ultrafine grained Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets
   Y. Une, Intermetallics
14:45 - 15:20 XMCD imaging of magnetization reversal processes in Nd-Fe-B magnets
   T. Nakamura, JASRI
15:20 - 15:35 Coffee Break
15:35 – 16:10 Thermodynamic database for NdFeB permanent magnets based on CALPHAD approach
   T. Abe, NIMS
16:10 – 16:45 RE-TM hard magnetic films -from model materials to applications
   N. Dempsey, Neel Lab
16:45 – 17:20 Microstructure and coercivity of Sm2(Co,Fe,Cu,Zr)17 permanent magnets
   H. Sepehri-Amin, NIMS
17:20 – 17:30 Closing Remarks
   N. Dempsey, Neel Lab

17:45-19:45 Get-together

- Place: NIMS Cafeteria in Sengen-site, pre-registration and participation fee required.

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