MRFM Summer School / Kavli Institute White Paper
The purpose of this particular weblog entry is to solicit comments relating to the white paper arising from the MRFM Summer School that was held on June 21-24 at the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.
The white paper will describe areas of active research in magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), as presented at the Kavli Conference; it will also summarize the ideas of the conference attendees on future directions of research in MRFM.
The initial draft is being written by conference organizer John Marohn, to whom email comments should be directed.
We're going to hold this topic open until July 10, as a open venue in which all attendees can share comments.
The white paper will describe areas of active research in magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM), as presented at the Kavli Conference; it will also summarize the ideas of the conference attendees on future directions of research in MRFM.
The initial draft is being written by conference organizer John Marohn, to whom email comments should be directed.
We're going to hold this topic open until July 10, as a open venue in which all attendees can share comments.
posted by Doug Mounce | 4:47 PM
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I writing this comment during the final presentation of the Summer School, by John Mamin of the IBM MRFM Group.
John's talk is entitled "What will it take to get to single nuclear spin sensitivity?"
John's answer is both encouraging and daunting; the technical path the IBM Group is presenting is well-posed, but it demands very considerable advances along the "smaller, colder, sharper, cleaner" path that MRFM has been following.
The previous talk, by Simon Rast of the University of Basel, set the stage for John's talk, by showing very exciting results on surface noise at low temperature. This noise is one of the key parameters of the MRFM community's present design path to single-spin imaging.
For me as an engineer, the most interesting aspect of the summer school has been not any one talk, but rather, the cumulative import of all the talks, which is, that if the people work together, to make the science and technology work together, then there is a very reasonable chance of advancing all the way to single-nuclear spin imaging.
So which is the greater challenge, persuading the technologies to work together, or persuading the people to work together? Well, both of these challenges are pretty considerable, and at the MRFM Summer School we made good progress on both fronts.
My thanks and congratulations are directed to Cornell University, to the Kavli Institute, to the NSF, and especially to John Marohn, for all their hard work in making the MRFM Summer School happen.
It's not much of a weblog, unless people post!
One interesting obsevation is, that journalists and writers weblog a lot, mathematicians, physics theorists, and computer scientists weblog a little, and to leading order, experimentalists and engineers do not weblog at all.
Other weblogs that I myself watch -- and occasionally post to -- include Lance Fortnow's Computational Complexity, Scott Aaronson's Shtetl Optimized (also complexity theory), and Dave Bacon's Quantum Pontiff (quantum computing).
MIke Nielsen's weblog was terrific, but is presently on hiatus until August.
It is a theorem that "All weblogs are either trivial or sparse" ... more than anything else, a weblog needs active participation and gossip!
Later this summer, if participation warrants, we'll reorganize this weblog as a forum, along the lines of the Computer Chess Forum. An active forum requires about 1000 regular readers and 25-50 regular posters; our MRFM community is not (yet) at that level!
On behalf of Lesley Yorke, note that the Kavli Institute MRFM website has been updated with all the abstracts, some of the talks, and a few photos.
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