Plenary Presentation Details
Timothy Murhpy
Deputy Director of Operations, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU
PRESENTATION DAY AND TIME
Friday, September 11, 2026 | 8:00 a.m.
PRESENTATION TITLE
Materials Unlock the Future: Using High Magnetic Fields as a Tool to Expand the Scientific Frontier and Raise the Ultra-High Field Limit in Magnets
ABSTRACT
Following the observation of superconductivity in mercury in 1911 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes realized that an electromagnet constructed from such a material could produce magnetic fields much greater than those possible using copper wire. Fast forward a hundred years and we are now close to generating 50T DC in a superconducting coil. Historically, science drives the discovery of new materials and in turn, new materials drive the progress of science. This talk will discuss how materials research coupled with high magnetic fields has resembled a self-propagating wave for the past 100+ years.