Student support to attend the Hysteresis and Micromagnetic Modeling Symposium. To be held May 11-14, 2009 at the NiST Campus in Gaithersburg, MD.

智力优势：乔治华盛顿大学磁学研究所和国家标准与技术研究所将于2009年5月11日至14日在NIST Gaithersburg校区举办第八届迟滞建模和微磁学国际研讨会。本次研讨会将介绍磁滞、微磁学和自旋动力学现象的理论、应用和测量方面的最新进展。迟滞是一种广泛存在的现象，在磁学领域得到了最深入的研究，但在磁学以外的领域也有发现，如经济学、精密控制、力学和许多其他领域。微磁学是铁磁材料的纳米尺度模型，它提供了磁性的补充观点，并且在模拟电子自旋动力学方面也很重要，这是新兴的自旋电子学技术的基础。更广泛的影响：研讨会将为工程师、数学家和物理学家提供一个特殊的场合来展示和交流思想、方法和结果。在此提案下寻求的支持是支持研究生出席和参加研讨会的部分旅费。

Intellectual Merit:The Institute for Magnetics Research of The George Washington University and the National Institute for Standards and Technology will host the Eighth International Symposium on Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetism on May 11-14, 2009 at the NIST Gaithersburg Campus. In this symposium, recent developments in the theory, applications and measurements of hysteresis, micromagnetics and spin dynamics phenomena will be presented. Hysteresis is a widespread phenomenon, studied most intensively in magnetism, but also found in areas outside of magnetics, such as economics, precision controls, mechanics, and many other fields. Micromagnetics is a nanoscale modelof ferromagnetic materials, which provides a complementary view of magnetism, and is important also for its role in modeling electron spin dynamics, which is the basis for the emerging technology of spintronics. Broader Impact:The symposium will provide a special occasion for engineers, mathematiciansand physicists to present and exchange ideas, methods and results. The support being sought under this proposal is to support part of the travel expenses ofgraduate students to attend and participate in the Symposium.