An International Symposium on “Spin Physics and Nanomagnetism,” sponsored by Lehman College, the Graduate Center, and the City University of New York, was held at the Graduate Center on March 13 and 14, 2009. The Symposium, which included forty-nine presentations, was organized to celebrate the 60th birthday of Distinguished Professor Eugene Chudnovsky, who is on the physics and astronomy faculty at Lehman College and on the doctoral faculty in physics at the Graduate Center.

An outstanding researcher and scholar of international reputation, he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1993, and in 2008, Nature magazine cited Chudnovsky’s work as leading to one of the greatest discoveries in spin physics in a century (Nature, Milestones, February, 2008).

One of the most impressive recent international gatherings of condensed-matter physicists, over forty participants came from all over the world, many of them leading researchers, theorists, and experimentalists working in the field of nanomagnetism. For more information:

http://www.lehman.edu/chudnovsky-fest/

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