From Sunday June 24th until Wednesday June 27th Exeter had the pleasure to host the sixth IEEE International Conference on Microwave Magnetics (ICMM2018), following on the success of Fort Collins (USA, 2008), Boston (USA, 2010), Kaiserslautern (Germany, 2012), Sendai (Japan, 2014), and Tuscaloosa (USA, 2016). The conference focussed on new developments in all branches of fundamental and applied microwave magnetics.
The event provided us with an incredible opportunity to engage international representatives from academia and industry with our “Beyond A PhD” series – a fantastic chance for all interested postgraduate and early career researchers in the College for Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences to learn more about possible careers pathways, tipps, tricks and traps to watch out for when thinking about the next steps to progress.
We welcomed 5 panel members to talk about their career trajectory prior to a question and answer session: Ursula Ebels (SPINTEC, Grenoble, France), Benedetta Flebus (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Peiman Hosseini (Bodel Technologies, Oxford, UK), Bob McMichael (National Institute of Standards and Technology, US), Kirill Rivkin (Seagate Technology, Minneapolis, US).
It was a pleasure to see the audience and panel engage so strongly in conversation for 1.5 hours at the end of a long day, exchanging questions and experiences.
Very many thanks to the panel members and in particular to the event organisers Prof R J Hicken and Dr P Keatley for their extraordinary committment to hosting the ICMM2018!
