The renewal of the UK membership of the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL) has been approved, in principle, by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. The renewal extends the current membership to 31 March 2027 and allows to continue and expand the well-established successful cooperation. The EMFL, consisting of the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI) with sites in Grenoble and Toulouse, the High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML - Nijmegen) and the HochfeldMagnetlabor (HLD - Dresden), provides access to the highest continuous and [...]

Raivo Stern, NICPB Tallinn. After the cancellation of the user meeting in 2020 due to the worldwide pandemic shutdown, the EMFL and its user community adopted to the “new reality” and gathered online for its annual user meeting for 2021. The high participation of up to 140 people showed the desire for a meeting to exchange on current developments and scientific progress. The user community recognizes this large attendance as a positive adjustment and encourages the EMFL Board of Directors (BoD) to consider hybrid meetings in the future, as well. Currently, the EMFL User Committee (UC) consists of 9 [...]

University of Nottingham Magnetic Levitation Laboratory. The Nottingham magnetic levitation laboratory is a relatively small facility hosted by the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, UK. The lab houses two superconducting magnets, reaching fields of up to 18.3 Tesla. Both magnets have been custom-built to perform experiments using the technique of diamagnetic levitation to mimic weightlessness and novel ‘differential gravity’ environments. The areas of research normally pursued in this laboratory include studies of fluid and granular physics in pseudo-weightless conditions, and investigations of biological responses to weightlessness. Both magnets have relatively wide (50 mm and [...]