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The Soft Magnetic Materials Conference, commonly referred to as SMM, is an international conference devoted to all kinds of soft magnetic materials 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 European country. Each time the SMM has a different logo.
In SMM18 (organised by Wolfson Centre for Magnetics 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 Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Elsevier at the beginning of 2008.
In the past the SMM proceedings have also been published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
or other peer reviewed 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 domain studies and Barkhausen noise
Magnetisation characterisation and measurement techniques
Losses, magnetostriction and B-H properties
Non-oriented and grain-oriented electrical steels
Novel and special magnetic materials
Fe-Ni, Fe-Co, amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys
Composites, powder cores and ferrites
Power applications (e.g. motors, transformers and actuators)
Sensors, high frequency 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, 8–11 September 2025, Turin, Italy
26th SMM, 4–7 September 2023 - Prague, Czech Republic
25th SMM, 2–5 May 2022 - Grenoble, France
24th SMM, 4–7 September 2019 - Poznań, Poland
23rd SMM, 10–13 September 2017 - Sevilla, Spain
22nd SMM, 2015 13–16 September 2015 - São Paulo, Brazil
21st SMM, 2013 1–4 September 2013 - Budapest, Hungary
20th SMM, 2011 18–22 September 2011 - Kos, Greece
19th SMM, 7–9 September 2009 - Torino, Italy
18th SMM, 1–3 September 2007 - Cardiff, United Kingdom
17th SMM, 7–9 September 2005 - Bratislava, Slovakia
16th SMM, 9–12 September 2003 - Düsseldorf, Germany
15th SMM, 5–7 September 2001 - Bilbao, Spain
14th SMM, 8–10 September 1999 - Balatonfüred, Hungary
13th SMM, 24–26 September 1997 - Grenoble, France
12th SMM, 12–14 September 1995 - Kraków, Poland
11th SMM, 29 September - 1 October 1993 - Venezia, Italy
10th SMM, 11–13 September 1991 - Dresden, Germany
9th SMM, 6–9 September 1989 - El Escorial, Spain
8th SMM, 1–4 September 1987 - Badgastein, Austria
7th SMM, 5–8 September 1985 - Blackpool, United Kingdom
6th SMM, 6–9 September 1983 - Eger, Hungary
5th SMM, 22–25 September 1981 - Grenoble, France
4th SMM, 11–14 September 1979 - Münster, Germany
3rd SMM, 14–16 September 1977 - Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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
https://smm27.polito.it
https://www.ifmpan.poznan.pl/smm24/pub/smm24_abstracts.pdf - SMM24 book of abstracts