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All rights reserved. High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions COMMITTEE TO ASSESS THE CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTION OF HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES BERTRAND I. HALPERIN, Harvard University, Chair GABRIEL AEPPLI, University College of London YOICHI ANDO, Osaka University MEIGAN ARONSON, Stony Brook University DIMITRI BASOV, University of California, San Diego THOMAS F. BUDINGER, University of California, Berkeley ROBERT DIMEO, National Institute of Standards and Technology JOHN C. GORE, Vanderbilt University FRANK HUNTE, North Carolina State University CHUNG NING (JEANIE) LAU, University of California, Riverside JAN CORNELIS MAAN, Radboud University Nijmegen ANN MCDERMOTT, Columbia University JOSEPH MINERVINI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology NAI PHUAN ONG,1 Princeton University ARTHUR P. RAMIREZ, University of California, Santa Cruz ZLATKO B. TESANOVIC,2 Johns Hopkins University ROBERT TYCKO, National Institutes of Health Staff JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director CARYN J. KNUTSEN, Associate Program Officer TERI G. THOROWGOOD, Administrative Coordinator 1 Nai Phuan Ong resigned from the committee on May 18, 2012. 2 Zlatko B. Tesanovic passed away on July 26, 2012. v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY PHILIP H. BUCKSBAUM, Stanford University, Chair DEBRA M. ELMEGREEN, Vassar College, Vice Chair Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester ADAM S. BURROWS, Princeton University TODD DITMIRE, University of Texas, Austin NATHANIEL J. FISCH, Princeton University PAUL FLEURY, Yale University STUART FREEDMAN, University of California, Berkeley S. JAMES GATES, University of Maryland LAURA H. GREENE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign MARTHA P. HAYNES, Cornell University MARK B. KETCHEN, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center MONICA OLVERA DE LA CRUZ, Northwestern University PAUL SCHECHTER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology BORIS SHRAIMAN, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics MICHAEL S. TURNER, University of Chicago ELLEN D. WILLIAMS, PB International MICHAEL S. WITHERELL, University of California, Santa Barbara Staff JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director DONALD C. SHAPERO, Senior Scholar DAVID B. LANG, Program Officer CARYN J. KNUTSEN, Associate Program Officer TERI G. Thorowgood, Administrative Coordinator BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate vi Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions ZlatKO B. TESANOVIC 1956-2012 The Committee to Assess
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