* See here for the guidelines of Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations.
July 27 (Sun):
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Registration and Welcome Reception |
July 28 (Mon):
| 8:00 am - | Registration |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Welcome Address |
| Session | RE-Fe-B Magnets I |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am (Plenary Talk) |
Prof. Oliver Gutfleisch (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) "A critical review of permanent magnet materials: options for reduction, substitution and recycling of strategic elements" |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Hossein Sepehri Amin (NIMS, Japan) "Recent advances in the development of high-performance HRE-free and RE-lean permanent magnets" |
| 9:50 am - 10:35 am | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | (Refreshment) |
| 10:55 am - 11:15 am (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Jun Cui (Ames Laboratory, USA) "Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Nano-Grain Neo Magnet" |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Cong Wang (Yantai Zhenghai magnetic material Co., Ltd, China) "Breaking Performance Limits in Nd-Fe-B Magnets via Extreme Grain Optimization and Grain Boundary Diffusion Synergy" |
| 11:35 am - 0:20 pm | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 0:20 pm - 1:30 pm | (Lunch) |
| Session | Characterization & Processing |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Dagmar Goll (Hochschule Aalen, Germany) "Rare earth permanent magnets with a high cerium content" |
| 1:50 pm - 3:05 pm | Oral Presentation × 5 |
| 3:05 pm - 3:25 pm | (Refreshment) |
| 3:25 pm - 3:45 pm (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Satoshi Okamoto (Tohoku University, Japan) "Three dimensional multimodal analyses on Nd-Fe-B magnets" |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Poster Session |
July 29 (Tue):
| Session | RE-Fe-B Magnets II |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Tae-Hoon Kim (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Korea) "New Insight into Development of Pr-based Grain Boundary Diffusion Process for High-Performance HRE-free Nd-Fe-B Sintered Magnets." |
| 9:20 am - 9:40 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Imants Dirba (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) "Reduction of heavy rare earths in Nd-Fe-B-based magnets by diffusion source and application area optimization" |
| 9:40 am - 10:25 am | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 10:25 am - 10:45 am | (Refreshment) |
| Session | Applications |
| 10:45 am - 11:05 am (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Kenji Nakamura (Tohoku University, Japan) "High-Speed and High-Efficiency Cooling Fan Motor with Nd-based Bonded Magnet and Fe-based Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Alloy" |
| 11:05 am - 11:35 pm | Oral Presentation × 2 |
| 11:35 am - 11:55 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Koji Kamiya (NIMS, Japan) "Development of an active magnetic refrigerator for hydrogen liquefaction" |
| 11:55 am - 0:15 pm (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Konstantin Skokov (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) "Magnetic Refrigeration from Ambient Temperature to Hydrogen Liquefaction: bringing a technology to the market" |
| 0:15 pm - 1:30 pm | (Lunch) |
| Session | Raw materials & Recycling |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Judson Marte (MP materials, USA) "Re-establishing Mine-to-Magnet Manufacturing in the United States" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Carlo Burkhardt (HPforzheim University, Germany) "Recent development in recycling of RE permanent magnets of the RE-Fe-B type: Challenges and solutions." |
| 2:10 pm - 2:55 pm | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 2:55 pm - 3:15 pm | (Refreshment) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:35 pm (Invited Talk) |
Prof. David Brown (University of Birmingham, UK) "Rapidly Quenched Rare Earth Iron Boride Magnets" |
| 3:35 pm - 4:35 pm | Oral Presentation × 4 |
| 4:35 pm - 6:30 pm | Poster Session |
July 30 (Wed):
| Session | RE Nitrides |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am (Plenary Talk) |
Prof. Jinbo Yang (Peking University, China) "Novel High Frequency Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth-Transitional Metal Intermetallic Compounds" |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Yusuke Hirayama (AIST, Japan) "Process development of high-performance Sm-Fe-N permanent magnet" |
| 9:50 am - 10:35 am | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | (Refreshment) |
| Session | Sm-based Magnets |
| 10:55 am - 11:15 am (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Hubin Luo (Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, China) "Phase transition in Sm-Co and its interesting phenomena" |
| 11:15 am - 0:15 pm | Oral Presentation × 4 |
| 0:15 pm - 1:30 pm | (Lunch) |
| Session | Emerging Magnets |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Jiasheng Zhang (NIMS, Japan) "Origin of high coercivity in post-sinter annealed Cu-doped Sm(Fe,Ti,V)12-based sintered magnets" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:35 pm | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 2:35 pm - 2:55 pm | (Refreshment) |
| Session | RE-free Magnets |
| 2:55 pm - 3:15 pm (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Mike Coey (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) "Do we really need a gap magnet?" |
| 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Oral Presentation × 5 |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm (Plenary Talk) |
Dr. Masato Sagawa (Daido Steel Co., Ltd., Japan) "Nd-Fe-B magnets: Young researchers innovate and veterans improve." |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Conference Dinner |
July 31 (Thu):
| Session | Thin Films & High-throughput Experiments |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am (Invited Talk) |
Prof. Nora Dempsey (Institut NEEL, CNRS, France) "Thin film combinatorial studies of hard magnetic materials" |
| 9:20 am - 9:40 am (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Yukiko Takahashi (NIMS, Japan) "Thin film model study for developing new permanent magnetic material" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am (Invited Talk) |
Prof. J.Ping Liu (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) "Magnetic Hardening in Low-Dimensional Magnets" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Oral Presentation × 2 |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | (Refreshment) |
| Session | Theory & Simulations |
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am (Invited Talk) |
Mr. Johann Fischbacher (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria) "Micromagnetic and reduced-order model simulations of the impact of microstructural defects on the coercivity of recycled Nd2Fe14B magnets" |
| 11:10 am - 0:10 pm | Oral Presentation × 4 |
| 0:10 pm - 1:30 pm | (Lunch) |
| Session | AI & Machine Learning |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm (Plenary Talk) |
Prof. Thomas Schrefl (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria) "Artificial Intelligence Assisted Optimization of Permanent Magnets" |
| 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 2:45 pm - 3:05 pm | (Refreshment) |
| 3:05 pm - 3:25 pm (Invited Talk) |
Dr. Masao Yano (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan) "Enhancing Research and Development Efficiency through Decision-Making Based on Experimental Data Feature Extraction" |
| 3:25 pm - 4:10 pm | Oral Presentation × 3 |
| 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks |
August 1 (Fri): Post Conference Tour to "Nikko"
* Pre-registration is required to attend it via "REPM2025 Registration Site".
