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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Input from the Community." National Research Council. 2005. Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11211.
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Input from the Community

A broad call for community input to the committee was issued in autumn 2003, shortly after the committee’s first meeting. The announcement was sent to several professional societies and appeared on the committee’s public Web page. It is excerpted below.

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.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Input from the Community." National Research Council. 2005. Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11211.
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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 e-mail 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 e-mail to cohmag@nas.edu, and thank you for your help.

For COHMAG,

Peter B. Moore, Chair

Written responses were received from the following individuals:

Richard Beger, National Center for Toxicological Research

Oscar Bernhal, University of California at Los Angeles

Paul Canfield, Ames Research Center

Walter Chazin, Vanderbilt University

David Cowburn, New York Structural Biology Center

Jack Crow, NHMFL

Kwaku Dayie, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

M. Dolotenko, Russian Federal Nuclear Center

Thomas Erber, Illinois Institute of Technology

Bolzonia Fulvio, IMEM, Italy

Roy Goodrich, Louisiana State University

Jurgen Haase, Leibniz Institute, Dresden

Michael Hall, Texas A&M University

William Halperin, Northwestern University

Bruce Hammer, University of Minnesota

Fritz Herlach, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Seung Hong, Oxford Instruments

Robert Leif, Newport Instruments

Gerard Ludtka, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Gerhard Martinez, Grenoble High Magnetic Field Lab

Andrew Maverick, Louisiana State University

Craig Milling, Magnetic Resonance Microsensors

Martha Morton, University of Connecticut

William Moulton, NHMFL

Jan Musfeldt, University of Tennessee

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Input from the Community." National Research Council. 2005. Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11211.
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Florin Neascu, International School of Choeifat, United Arab Emirates

Dean Peterson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Neela Poorasingh, City University of New York

Al Redfield, Brandeis University

Jim Rhyne, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Larry Rubin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joshua Telser, Roosevelt University

Cees Thieme, American Superconductor Corp.

Sheldon Schultz, University of California at San Diego

Horst Stormer, Columbia University

David Weber, University of Maryland

Roy Weinstein, University of Houston

Nicholas Zumbulyadis, Eastman Kodak

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E Input from the Community." National Research Council. 2005. Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11211.
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High-field magnets—those that operate at the limits of the mechanical and/or electromagnetic properties of their structural materials—are used as research tools in a variety of scientific disciplines. The study of high magnetic fields themselves is also important in many areas such as astrophysics. Because of their importance in scientific research and the possibility of new breakthroughs, the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assess the current state of and future prospects for high-field science and technology in the United States. This report presents the results of that assessment. It focuses on scientific and technological challenges and opportunities, and not on specific program activities. The report provides findings and recommendations about important research directions, the relative strength of U.S. efforts compared to other countries, and ways in which the program can operate more effectively.

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