The Magnetic Carrier Meeting 2024 in Barcelona, Spain Was a Huge Success

The 14th International Conference on the Scientific and Clinical Applications of Magnetic Carriers took place in Barcelona, Spain from June 17-21, 2024, with 252 participants from 33 countries. It was once again a great gathering of people with an interest in all things magnetic particle related. So many great talks, posters, discussions and interactions!

If you want to know more of what happened during those 5 days, check out this link.

European School of Magnetism 2025 (ESM2025) : Opening of Registration

The next session of the European School on Magnetism (ESM) is scheduled from the 30^th of June to the 11thof July 2025. It will be held in a mixed format. Attendees can either participate onsite, Liège, BE, or online. The number of onsite participants is limited to 100, online to 80. Requests for participation can be made from today until the 28th of February 2025.

The topic for ESM2025 is Topology for low Energy Spintronics. Bertrand Dupé, from the University of Liège and Flavio Abreu Araujo, from the University of Louvain, are chairs of the School.

Liège has excellent bus and train connections to major European. Depending on the requests for online participation, we may also organize local hubs in Europe, in which online participants may gather to attend the school together. The aim is to enhance the online experience through collaborative work, emulation and mentoring of local experts in the field of magnetism.

The School is addressed mainly at PhD students and post-docs, with either experimental or theoretical backgrounds. Similar to previous editions of ESM, the 2024 School aims at providing a thorough insight into magnetism through a broad series of fundamental lectures, and to address a specific topic of current interest in more detail. It consists of approximately 40 hours of lectures, practicals and tutorials, and round tables. During the school, the onsite students have free access to a library on magnetism. Attendees will be able to present their own work during poster sessions. The detailed program is available from the website:  

http://magnetism.eu/school/2025/program

Magnetic Particle Meeting in 2025: Frontiers in Biomagnetic Nanoparticles in Telluride

If you are itching to go to a relevant magnetic particle meeting in-between our magnetic carrier meetings (which only take place in even years), you might consider our "sister conference" Frontiers in Biomagnetic Nanoparticles that will be held from June 30 - July 2, 2025 in beautiful Telluride, Colorado, USA. The meeting is organized by Thompson Mefford (Clemson University) and Jennifer Andrew (University of Florida). The program's 5 confirmed invited speakers are Randall Erb, Isaac Torres-Diaz, Emilie Secret, Hari Srikanth and Gabriela Romero Uribe. Check it out at

https://www.magneticnanoparticle.com/.

You can get a hotel discount of $100 before January 15, and the deadline for abstracts is on February 12.

Hologic Completes Acquisition of Endomagnetics Ltd

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hologic, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOLX), a global leader in women’s health, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Endomagnetics Ltd (Endomag), a privately held UK-based developer of breast cancer surgery technologies, for approximately $310 million.

Endomagnetics breast cancer surgery technologies (Photo: Business Wire)

“We are thrilled to complete the acquisition of Endomag and are looking forward to working with our new colleagues to increase access to their innovative technologies, which complement and diversify our expanding interventional breast health portfolio,” said Erik Anderson, President of Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic. “With our shared commitment to advancing women’s health globally, we are excited to improve outcomes for patients and, together with our customers, redefine the standard of care for breast cancer intervention.”

The transaction adds Endomag’s wireless breast surgery localization and lymphatic tracing solutions – including the Magseed® marker, the Magtrace® lymphatic tracer and the Sentimag® platform – to Hologic’s breast surgery portfolio, providing breast surgeons and radiologists with an expanded range of options and enhanced user experience.

“We are so proud of the company we built and the practice-changing breast surgery technologies that we developed following years of relentless research, innovation and deep engagement with clinicians,” said Eric Mayes, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of Endomag. “As we embark on this new journey with Hologic, I am filled with optimism about the opportunities for our team, our forthcoming innovations and our ability to impact even more women around the world.”

For more info: https://www.endomag.com/en/

SPICE Website: Magnetism Meets Plasmonics

You can now find at the SPICE website the links of the talks of the workshops “Spin textures: Magnetism meets Plasmonics”. We hope you enjoy the tutorials and talks from this exciting workshop.

We encourage you to visit the SPICE’s website (http://www.spice.uni-mainz.de/) for upcoming workshops that you may want to attend and to propose your own workshop. As always, all the talks of the workshops and on-line seminar are available at the SPICE YouTube channel, although for navigational purposes you may find it easier to find the video links on the SPICE website.

2024 School of Magnetism in York, U.K.

ESM 2024 will be held from 27 August to 6 September 2024, in mixed format, both onsite in York, UK, and online. The topic is Magnetism for energy-efficient devices. Activities consist of lectures (40h), question sessions, practicals and tutorials, career and industry perspectives, access to a Library on Magnetism.

The topic for the 2024 European School on Magnetism is Magnetism for energy-efficient devices. The School is chaired by Stuart Cavill (University of York).

Participation is offered in mixed format, either onsite in York, with a maximum of 100 participants, or online with most of the onsite activities available. We are commited to provide a similarly-high experience to both onsite and online participants, based on our experience of hybrid school built up since 2021. We intend to set up local hubs in Europe, in which online participants may gather to attend the school. This intends to enhance their online experience through collaborative work and emulation, and the mentoring of local experts in the field of magnetism. Hubs will be organized when the outcome of the selection process is over.

Like previous editions of ESM, the 2024 School aims at providing a thorough understanding of magnetism based on a broad series of fundamental lectures, while offering the latest insights into up-to-date aspects of magnetism with lectures focusing on a special topic. The objective of the 2024 school is to cover a wide range of fundamental to functional phenomena, to serve as a critical evaluation of the use of magnetism and magnetic materials to serve in energy-efficient devices, especially to address societal challenges. The School will be an opportunity for young scientists and lecturers from various fields to meet, share their expertise and build a network. For more information, go to https://magnetism.eu/252-2024-school.htm.

Iron Isotopes - Both Radioactive and Stable

If you ever wondered about doing experiments with different iron isotopes, either in enriched stable form, or with radioactive isotopes, then the product catalog at the National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) could be your source:

https://isotopes.gov/products/Iron?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

NIDC can provide enriched Fe-54, Fe-56, Fe-57 and Fe-58, which are all stable, or the radioactive radioisotopes Fe-52 (half-life 8.3 h), Fe-54 (half-life 2.7 years) or Fe-59 (half-life 45 days).

The IEEE Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe Magnetic Conference

The 2023 Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe Magnetics Conference (AtC-AtG) will be held online on the 27th of September 2023. AtC-AtG is a 24-hour non-stop virtual conference with speakers from all over the world passing the baton to each other, with exciting contributed talks from students and post-doctoral researchers, and intriguing invited talks by emerging and senior scientists. Join, interact, and network at any time – for free.

The scope of the conference is to bring together early-stage researchers through a series of oral and poster presentations, coupled with networking opportunities and exciting competitions, providing an international platform to facilitate interaction and discussion of recent progress and trends in the field of magnetism, ranging from fundamental to applied aspects.

The Conference started in 2020 to promote interactions between the younger members of the global magnetism community and has proved to be a huge success. Following that, the 2022 AtC-AtG edition joined together more than 500 scientists, with 50 contributed talks and 65 posters from 25 countries, showcasing both research excellence and diversity.