Los Alamos Women in Science talk at Bradbury Science Museum
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory produces the most powerful magnets in the world and Los Alamos has just set a new record for the largest non-destructive, pulsed-field magnet.
Who better to explain the Lab’s use of the most current, state-of-the-art magnet technology than Vivien Zapf of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MPA-NHMFL).
Los Alamos Women in Science is sponsoring the talk by Zapf at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at the Bradbury Science Museum.
Zapf’s talk titled, “Large Magnets and New Science at the National High Magnetic Field Lab,” explores current technology and the challenges that researchers have faced using the technology. “I also will give an overview of the type of research that we do and the new fundamental states of matter that develop at high fields as well as the broad applications of magnet technology in daily life,” Zapf said.
Zapf studies the fundamental properties of materials at high magnetic fields and low temperatures including quantum magnets, superconductors and other correlated-electron systems. Recently, she has been investigating Bose-Einstein condensation in quantum magnets.
Zapf received her doctorate at the University of California, San Diego, in 2003. She was then awarded a Millikan post-doctoral fellowship at Caltech and a director-funded post-doctoral fellowship at Los Alamos.
The talk is free and open to the public. Zapf also will be interviewed at 8:40 this morning on KRSN AM.
The Bradbury Science Museum is part of the Community Programs Office (CPO), which is a co-sponsor of the Los Alamos Women in Science talk series.
For more information, contact Tinka Gammel of Theoretical (T) Division at 7-9149 or jtg@lanl.gov by electronic mail.
