The Soft Magnetic Materials Conference, commonly referred to as SMM, is an international conference devoted to all kinds of soft

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s with the emphasis on industrial and applications aspects.

Format and purpose

The SMM is held for three days, every two years, often at the beginning of September in a

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an country. Each time the SMM has a different

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. In SMM18 (organised by

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there were 260 participants from over 30 countries. There were 306 scientific papers presented, out of which around 200 are peer reviewed and will be published in

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at the beginning of 2008. In the past the SMM proceedings have also been published in

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"Introduction to the Soft Magnetic Materials 1 conference"
''IEEE Transactions on Magnetics'', Volume 10, Issue 2, June 1974 or other

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ed journals. The SMM is the largest international conference devoted to soft magnetic materials. It has active participation of the academic world as well as of industry, with a high scientific level of contributed and invited communications. The main aim of the SMM is to bring together engineers and scientists from universities, research institutions and industry who are active in research, development and industrial applications of the materials. The programme of the conference includes invited lectures by academic and industrial experts, oral presentations and poster sessions for regular contributions.

Scope

Typical topics of the SMM are: * Basic magnetisation processes including

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studies and

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* Magnetisation characterisation and measurement techniques * Losses, magnetostriction and B- H properties * Non-oriented and grain-oriented electrical steels * Novel and special

s * Fe- Ni, Fe- Co,

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and

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s *

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s, powder cores and ferrites * Power applications (e.g. motors,

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s and

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s) *

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s, high

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and electronic applications * Modelling, simulation or prediction of material and device performance * Design of electromagnetic components and systems * Energy and environmental aspects

Dates and locations

* 27th SMM, September 2025, Turin, Italy
26th SMM
4–7 September 2023 -

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25th SMM
2–5 May 2022 - Grenoble,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

24th SMM
4–7 September 2019 -

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

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* 23rd SMM, 10–13 September 2017 - Sevilla,

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22nd SMM, 2015
13–16 September 2015 -

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

21st SMM, 2013
1–4 September 2013 -

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

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20th SMM, 2011
18–22 September 2011 - Kos,

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19th SMM
7–9 September 2009 -

Torino Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. T ...

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* 18th SMM, 1–3 September 2007 -

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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* 17th SMM, 7–9 September 2005 -

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

Elsevier, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 304 (2006), doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.03.055 * 16th SMM, 9–12 September 2003 -

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

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* 15th SMM, 5–7 September 2001 -

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, Spain * 14th SMM, 8–10 September 1999 -

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, Hungary * 13th SMM, 24–26 September 1997 - Grenoble,

* 12th SMM, 12–14 September 1995 -

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* 11th SMM, 29 September - 1 October 1993 - Venezia,

* 10th SMM, 11–13 September 1991 -

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

, Germany * 9th SMM, 6–9 September 1989 - El Escorial, Spain * 8th SMM, 1–4 September 1987 -

Badgastein Bad Gastein (; formerly ''Badgastein''; Southern Bavarian: ''Bod Goschdei'') is a spa town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Picturesquely situated in a high valley of the Hohe Tauern mountain range, it i ...

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* 7th SMM, 5–8 September 1985 -

Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the North West England, northwest coast of England, it is the main settlement within the Borough of Blackpool, borough also called Blackpool. The town is by the Irish Sea, betw ...

, United Kingdom * 6th SMM, 6–9 September 1983 - Eger, Hungary * 5th SMM, 22–25 September 1981 - Grenoble,

* 4th SMM, 11–14 September 1979 -

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

, Germany * 3rd SMM, 14–16 September 1977 - Bratislava,

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* 2nd SMM, 9–11 April 1975 - Cardiff, United Kingdom * 1st SMM, 3–5 September 1973 - Torino, Italy

Organising committees

The conference series has an International Organising Committee, chaired by I. Škorvánek of Košice, Slovakia. The previous chairs were J.M. Barandiaran, of Bilbao, Spain, Anthony J. Moses, of Cardiff, UK, Fausto Fiorillo, of Turin, Italy, and John E. Thompson who was the founder chair. For each SMM there is a Local Organising Committee (academic and research members of staff of the local university), which is responsible for local arrangements, venue, technical programme, conference dinner, etc.

References

External links

* http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/SMM18{{dead link, date=May 2018 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes * http://www.smm19.eu * https://www.ifmpan.poznan.pl/smm24/pub/smm24_abstracts.pdf - SMM24 book of abstracts Physics conferences