IEEE Magnetics Society Support for Special Projects
Requirements:
- Only graduate students (GS) and postdoctoral associates (PD) are eligible.
- The team must include people from more than one institution.
- The research must be initiated by the team members, rather than by their research advisors.
- The maximum budget is $10 k US per project, for one year starting in December 2021, and justification for items in the budget is required.
- If selected, the team members are required to join the IEEE Magnetics Society if they are not members already.
- The team will submit a 6 month progress report and a 12 month final report, both including financial info, to the Education Committee Chair
- The team will present results at a magnetics-related conference such as MMM or Intermag, and include acknowledgement of IEEE Magnetics Society Support. Similarly and publications arising from the research project should include this acknowledgment.
- Anyone who has already received a Special Project Award is ineligible, so that more GS and PD can benefit from this program.
- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 25, 2021.
Recommendations:
- This should be a new and unique research project, not on the same topic as the advisors’ grants
- The proposal should be written at a level appropriate for someone knowledgable in magnetics, but not necessarily in the particular subfield(s) of the project. Be sure to define any acronyms used.
- Submissions from a diverse group of GS and PD are encouraged. This includes gender and geographic origin, and diversity within individual teams is desirable.
- A diverse range of magnetics-related topics was supported in the initial year, and this is likely to be true this year as well. The project titles and countries involved are as follows:
- “Investigating the Role of Magnetic Inhomogeneities and Interdiffusion in Compensated Gadolinium Iron Garnet/Heavy Metal Hybrid Structure” (USA-2)
- “Enhancement of magnetic cation ordering within a layered multiferroic material for next generation data storage technologies” (Ireland, India)
- “Manipulating Dirac strings” (Germany, Chile)
- “On the effect of mechanical stress on solid-state phase transformations in select ferromagnetic systems” (USA-2, Spain)
- “Nanoscale Spin Helices Stabilised by a Hierarchy of Magnetic Interactions in Exchange-Biased Heterostructures” (Germany, Australia)
- “High quality spin injectors and transparent interfaces” (Spain, France)
- “South African HTS SQUID for Earth's field monitoring and Space science” (South Africa, Czech Rep., France)
- “MagCOVID” (Spain, Italy, France, Brazil)
- “Magnetoelectric nanocomposites for tissue engineering” (Spain-2, Portugal)
- “Study of magnetization dynamics in sample with interfacial Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction” (Poland-2)
- “Investigation of novel magnetic configurations in low dimensional triangular lattice antiferromagnet” (India, Germany)
- “Coherent Magnon Mediated Quantum Information Manipulation and Processing Operations” (USA-2).
Proposal Preparation Instructions:
Please create a proposal with the following contents and submit it via email to Sara Majetich (sara@cmu.edu):- Project Title:
- For each team member: Names, email addresses, institutional addresses, GS or PD, gender, advisors’ names
- Project Description (3 p. maximum)
- What is the problem or issue of interest, and what motivates this work?
- What are the techniques/methods that will be used, and how to they contribute to the project success?
- Who on the team will do what? How will the efforts at different institutions be coordinated?
- How will the results be analyzed, and how will the findings be disseminated?
- References
- Budget and Budget Justification
- What funds are needed to carry out the project, and why?
- How will funds be managed/distributed among the team members?