EMFL USER MEETING AND WORKSHOP 2023

Photo © EMFL. Participants of the HFML-FELIX and EMFL user meeting in Nijmegen.

Steffen Wiedmann and Uli Zeitler, HFML Nijmegen.

The EMFL User Meeting 2023, combined with the HFML-FELIX user meeting and a workshop on the combination of high magnetic fields and THz radiation took place in Nijmegen from 13-15 June 2023. The meeting started on Tuesday afternoon with an opening statement from HFML-FELIX director Britta Redlich and a plenary talk by Steen Brøndsted Nielsen (Aarhus University) addressed to the large group of both national and international attendees interested in research combining high magnetic fields and THz radiation. Subsequently, Charles Simon (Chair of the Board of Directors of EMFL) opened the EMFL user meeting and presented an overview of recent developments at EMFL. The EMFL prize winner 2023, Jake Ayres (University of Bristol), gave the first scientific talk. Further, eight researchers presented on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning scientific talks covering a broad range of user work performed at the EMFL facilities. The users also discussed future scientific developments and possible new magnets that would be useful to have at the EMFL facilities. During the user meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the User Committee chaired by Raivo Stern (NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia) critically discussed user-related issues of EMFL and reported back to the Board of Directors. After the Wednesday morning session, both user groups from EMFL and HFML-FELIX joint again for the plenary talk by Ben Murdin (University of Surrey), who addressed the combination of high magnetic fields and THz radiation and presented some recent research examples. On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, a dedicated workshop (supported by the ISABEL project) on the combination of high fields and THz radiation took place. Eight speakers stressed how such a unique combination provides our field with new research possibilities. In particular, the possibilities of the existing combination HFML-FELIX in Nijmegen and HLD-FELBE in Dresden were introduced. The workshop concluded with a general discussion on combined experiments, highlighting possibilities for future exciting collaborations.