MMM 2026

Tim at MMM 2026

Tim speaks Thursday afternoon, and Polymagnet exhibits all three exhibit days. The two meet at 3:48 PM Thursday, when his talk ends and the afternoon break begins.

10-minute version15 slides shown, a running clock in the notes Full deckAll 33 slides, with speaker notes Presenter instructionsFrom the conference

The talk FC-09, "Accelerate the scientific method with agile design of advanced magnetics." Sole author, listed as T. Costello, CMR Inc, Huntsville, Alabama. source
When and where Thursday, November 5, 3:36 to 3:48 PM, Coral 1 source
The session FC, New Applications and Other Emerging Topics I, 2:00 to 5:30 PM. Co-chairs Kai Wu (University of South Florida) and Ahmed El-Gendy (UT El Paso). source
Format A 12-minute contributed slot: about 10 minutes of talk and 2 of questions. 16:9 slides, his own laptop, a USB backup and any adapters. An author has to present in person or the paper is marked No Show and not published. source
The booth Booth 11, listed as Correlated Magnetics Research Inc., in the Coral Lounge next to the session rooms and the poster hall. source
Booth hours Set up Monday 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Open Tuesday to Thursday 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM. Tear down Thursday 7:00 to 10:00 PM. No exhibits Friday. source
Right after the talk The break runs 3:48 to 4:15 PM, so the room heads for the Coral Lounge as Tim finishes. His closing slide points them to Booth 11. source
Twelve minutes The full deck has 33 slides, about 18 seconds each. The 10-minute version keeps the dilemma, the demo loop and its timings, the four technical slides the abstract promises, the booth and contact. The other slides are hidden, not deleted. source

Tim's original closing slide said Booth B26. The official conference app lists Correlated Magnetics Research in Booth 11, and the hall is numbered 1 to 18, so the deck on this site now says Booth 11. Worth confirming at check-in.

The abstract, as submitted

Accelerate the scientific method with agile design of advanced magnetics

This presentation will present a new paradigm in agile/lean design of advanced magnetics. 3D printing has changed the speed at which engineers evaluate iterative physical product designs, speeding research and the discovery process. Now researchers can leverage the same benefits when working with multi-pole magnets. Polymagnet's real time prototyping process enables researchers to design and iterate multiple versions in a single day. No more wasting precious budget dollars on expensive fixtures. No more guessing how good the modeling is. No more compromising on the experimental samples because you can't afford the time and cost of another iteration. No more limitations to the size and proximity of adjacent poles. Free your design envelope and accelerate discovery.

During this presentation we will provide a detailed overview of the design and magnetization process. We will discuss the necessary steps and outputs of each phase, including current operating windows. While the currently available equipment was designed for a specific operating window, the presentation will also cover new frontiers which are being developed to allow the technology to magnetize previously impractical structural geometries. Come and learn how digitally controlled micro magnetization can open the window to magnetic circuit optimization and discovery.

The week, day by day

Hawaii time, which is 4 hours behind Austin in November. From the October 27 program book and the conference site. Breakfast runs 7:30 to 9:00 AM every day. Sources give slightly different coffee-break times, so check onsite.

Monday, Nov 2

7:00 AM5K Fun Run/Walk ($35, sign up ahead) source
7:00 AM to 1:00 PMBooth setup, Coral Lounge source
2:30 to 5:00 PMTutorial: Applications of Magnetic Micro/Nano Robots, Coral 3 source
5:00 to 7:00 PMWelcome Reception, Great Lawn source

Tuesday, Nov 3

8:30 AM to 12:00 PMSymposium AB, Magnetic Materials Design and Discovery, Coral 5 source
9:30 AM to 12:30 PMPosters, Coral 4, including rare-earth permanent magnets (AP) source
10:00 AMExhibits open until 6:30 PM source
12:30 to 1:30 PMSpecial session: Magnetism in Nuclear Fusion, Coral 5 source
2:00 to 5:30 PMBE, Imaging, Sensing and Electromagnetic Devices, South Pacific 1/2 source
5:30 to 6:30 PMBierstube in the Coral Lounge, among the booths source
6:00 to 7:30 PMIEEE Magnetics Society Standards Committee, Hibiscus 2, open to all source

Wednesday, Nov 4

8:30 AM to 12:00 PMCE, Magnetic Sensors and High-Frequency Devices, South Pacific 1/2 source
9:30 AM to 12:30 PMPosters: rare-earth-free magnets (CP) and permanent-magnet machines (CQ) source
12:30 to 1:30 PMSpecial session: Narrative is Leadership, Lehua Suite source
2:00 to 5:30 PMDE, Sensors, Energy Harvesters and Power Devices, South Pacific 1/2 source
5:30 to 6:30 PMBierstube, Coral Lounge source

Thursday, Nov 5

8:30 AM to 12:00 PMEC, Hard Magnetic Materials I (Nd-Fe-B), Coral 1 source
12:30 to 1:45 PMSpecial session: The Magnetic Compass of Life, Coral 5 source
2:00 PMSession FC begins, Coral 1 source
3:36 to 3:48 PMTim's talk, FC-09, Coral 1 source
3:48 to 4:15 PMBreak. The room empties toward Booth 11. source
5:30 to 6:30 PMBierstube and Meet the Distinguished Lecturers, Coral Lounge source
6:00 to 7:30 PMRoadmap meeting on magnetics for power electronics (signup closed Oct 12) source
7:00 to 10:00 PMBooth teardown source

Friday, Nov 6

8:30 AMGD, Next-Generation Permanent Magnets, Coral 2. Opens with an invited talk on additive manufacturing of magnets. source
9:30 AM to 12:30 PMPosters, Coral 4, including a magnetizer design for Halbach rotors (GR-10) source
12:30 to 1:45 PMYoung Professionals Lightning Talks, Nautilus source
2:00 to 5:30 PMHD, AI-Driven Design of Permanent Magnets, Coral 2 source
All dayNo exhibits, so Tim is free for sessions source

Open the full scheduleEvery day on one page, hour by hour, in a timeline — Tim’s talk marked, each line sourced.Open ›

The program

About 960 talks and posters by our count. Here is how the week is laid out, and the parts worth knowing about before landing.

How it runs

Talks · 8:30 AM to noon and 2:00 to 5:30 PM, Tuesday to Friday, seven or eight rooms at once source
Posters · Coral 4, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM and 3:00 to 6:00 PM, next to the exhibits source
Symposia · 16 of them, new this year. They mix invited and contributed talks and are recorded. source
Planner app · MyItinerary, linked from the program book, lists every paper and exhibitor source

The 12 topic areas

From the program book. The ones nearest Polymagnet are hard magnets, sensors and power devices, multifunctional materials and applications, and emerging topics.

Fundamental properties; magnetoelectronics; spintronics; dynamics and micromagnetics source
Soft magnetic materials; hard magnetic materials; structured materials source
Multifunctional materials and applications; recording, storage and computing source
Sensors, high-frequency and power devices; interdisciplinary and emerging topics; characterization source

Special sessions and meetings

Magnetism in Nuclear Fusion · Tue 12:30 PM, with a speaker from Commonwealth Fusion Systems source
Narrative is Leadership · Wed 12:30 PM, a workshop on presenting science (ABT framework) source
The Magnetic Compass of Life · Thu 12:30 PM, Oxford and Oldenburg on how animals sense fields ($15) source
Standards Committee · Tue 6:00 PM, open to anyone, no signup source

After the week

Recordings · Free to attendees on demand from November 25, 2026 to January 25, 2027 source
Proceedings · An AIP Advances special topic, online early 2027 source
INTERMAG 2027 · May 10 to 14, 2027, Jeju Island, South Korea source
MMM 2028 · October 30 to November 3, 2028, San Antonio, Texas source

Where Polymagnet fits

Our picks from the program for a company that writes multipole magnets: sessions where Tim can learn something, meet a likely customer or partner, or both. The picks and the notes are ours.

Tim's own session, FC

Thursday 2:00 to 5:30 PM, Coral 1

The same afternoon: NdFeB micromagnets for MEMS speakers and mirrors (Silicon Austria Labs), plastic sorting by magnetic levitation (NIST), and permanent-magnet rotating fields for medical robotics (Mayo Clinic). Each one depends on where the field goes. source

How magnets get magnetized

Posters BQ-05 (Tue PM), CQ-10 (Wed AM), GR-10 (Fri AM), Coral 4

Gachon University's group on magnetizing motors after assembly, including a magnetizer built for Halbach rotors. The closest work in the program to what Polymagnet does every day. source

Halbach and patterned fields

AD-06 (Tue 10:45 AM, Coral 2), BE-09 (Tue 4:27 PM)

Micrometer-scale Halbach patterns from Cornell and a Halbach-array motor from Wuhan. People already designing with shaped fields, the hard way. source

Haptics and soft actuators

DE-09 (Wed 4:27 PM), GE-02 (Fri 9:06 AM), South Pacific 1/2

Cornell's electropermanent and magnetic-elastomer actuators. Feel and force are where programmed magnets are easiest to demonstrate. source

Couplings

BE-08 (Tue 4:15 PM, South Pacific 1/2)

A contactless magnetic coupling for flywheel energy storage, from Bologna, Modena and Nottingham. source

Reading a pattern back

CE-04 (Wed 9:18 AM, South Pacific 1/2)

Tohoku University and Spin Sensing Factory identify magnetization patterns with TMR sensors and deep learning. Spin Sensing Factory is also exhibiting. source

Using less rare earth

EC (Thu AM, Coral 1), GD and HD (Fri, Coral 2), CP and CQ posters (Wed AM)

The industry's supply worry, and a large share of the hard-magnet program. Ames National Laboratory chairs much of it. Daido Steel and Tokin present their own magnet work. source

Measurement on the floor

GR-05 (Fri AM poster), AP-06 (Tue AM poster)

Two exhibitors present their own work: Hirst on pulsed-field measurement of rare-earth magnets, Lake Shore on 3D-printed NdFeB. source

Fusion magnets

Special session XA, Tue 12:30 PM, Coral 5

Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science on the magnets fusion needs. Big fields, hard engineering, and a room worth being in. source

Participants

Our short list of people in public roles, and the companies on the floor and in the program. It is not the presenter list. Every paper and author is in the official program book, linked under Sources. The notes in the last column are our own.

The exhibit floor, company by companyEvery exhibitor profiled — what they make, where they fit, and the people to find, with LinkedIn. Tap through the worksheet.Open ›

Name	Role	Affiliation	Detail	Why it matters for Tim
Stéphane Mangin	General Chair	University of Lorraine, France		Runs the conference.	source
Jean Anne Incorvia	Program Committee Co-Chair	University of Texas at Austin	Also co-chairs symposium DA, spintronic logic	One of three people who shaped the program. Based in Austin.	source
Diana Leitao	Program Committee Co-Chair	Eindhoven University		Shaped the program.	source
Yukiko Takahashi	Program Committee Co-Chair	National Institute for Materials Science, Japan		Shaped the program.	source
Cindi Dennis	Special Sessions and Events Chair	NIST	Chairs the tutorial and special sessions; co-author on FC-04 in Tim's session	Sits in Tim's session as an author. Knows every special event.	source
Atsufumi Hirohata	Exhibits Co-Chair; IEEE Magnetics Society representative	Tohoku University		Exhibits leadership.	source
Hua Shu Hsu	Exhibits Co-Chair	National Pingtung University		Exhibits leadership.	source
Jean-Pierre Nozieres	Exhibits Co-Chair	CNRS	Also chairs session CA, MRAM	Exhibits leadership.	source
Yassine Quessab	Exhibits Co-Chair	Seagate	Speaks in symposium AA on hard-drive technology	Exhibits leadership.	source
Tiffany Santos	Past chair (MMM 2025); chairs the MMM Administrative Committee	Western Digital		The conference's standing leadership.	source
Shelbie Jenkins	Partner Support Manager	Conference management	shelbie@magnetism.org	The contact for anything about the booth.	source
Molly Bartkowski	Conference Manager	Conference management		Runs operations onsite.	source
Tim Costello	Speaker, FC-09	Correlated Magnetics Research (Polymagnet), Huntsville	Thursday 3:36 PM, Coral 1	Speaking Thursday afternoon.	source
Kai Wu	Co-chair, session FC	University of South Florida	Also chairs symposium HA, Magnetism and the Brain	Introduces Tim and runs the clock.	source
Ahmed El-Gendy	Co-chair, session FC	University of Texas at El Paso		Introduces Tim and runs the clock. A Texas lab.	source
Silicon Austria Labs	Presenting FC-02 and FC-15	Villach, Austria	NdFeB micromagnets for MEMS speakers and mirrors; laser-cut sub-millimeter magnets	Tiny magnets in consumer devices. A natural conversation about patterning at small scale.	source
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale	Presenting FC-13	T. Le, H. Ceylan	Rotating permanent-magnet fields under robotic and anatomic limits	Medical robotics that needs precise fields.	source
NIST	Presenting FC-04	E. L. Correa and co-authors	Plastic sorting by magnetic levitation	An industrial use of shaped fields.	source
Stanley R. Trout	Co-chair, EC (Nd-Fe-B)	Spontaneous Materials, Denver	Thursday morning, Coral 1	Industry voice in the hard-magnet sessions, in Tim's room the same day.	source
W. Tang	Co-chair, EC	Ames National Laboratory	Also presents EC-08, EC-10, HD-11	Rare-earth-efficient magnets.	source
I. C. Nlebedim	Co-chair, GD	Ames National Laboratory, critical materials	Friday morning, Coral 2	Next-generation permanent magnets.	source
A. Baghel	Chair, CQ (permanent-magnet machines)	Ames National Laboratory	Wednesday morning posters	Motor designers.	source
J. Xiao	Chair, BQ (permanent-magnet and induction machines)	Hinetics Inc., Champaign, Illinois	Tuesday afternoon posters	Electric-machine company in the program.	source
A. Bellini	Chair, DE; first author of BE-08	University of Bologna	Magnetic coupling for flywheel storage	Couplings.	source
Ron Goldfarb	Chair, BE; co-chair of the fusion session	NIST		Imaging, sensing and electromagnetic devices.	source
Wilhelmus Geerts	Co-chair, BG	Texas State University	Also presents 3D-printed ferrite composites (CS-05, CS-07)	Printed magnets, from a Texas school.	source
Mingzhong Wu	Chair, Standards Committee meeting	Northeastern University	Tuesday 6:00 PM, open to all	Where measurement standards get set.	source
Masahiro Yamaguchi	Chair, power-electronics roadmap meeting	Tohoku University	Thursday 6:00 PM	Industry roadmap for magnetics in power electronics.	source
Jeffrey Shield	Invited, GD-01	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Additive manufacturing of permanent magnets, Friday 8:30 AM, Coral 2	Printed magnets, and another way to put poles where you want them.	source
Jiamian Hu	Invited, HD-01	University of Wisconsin-Madison	AI-accelerated design of permanent magnets, Friday 2:00 PM, Coral 2	Close to Tim's own theme of faster design cycles.	source
James Chelikowsky	Invited, AB-01	University of Texas at Austin	Finding rare-earth-free magnets with quantum simulation and machine learning, Tuesday 8:30 AM	Materials discovery, and an Austin connection.	source
Amal El-Ghazaly	Senior author, AD-06, DE-09, GE-02	Cornell University	Micrometer Halbach patterns; electropermanent and elastomer actuators	The program's most Polymagnet-like research group.	source
Alex Hanson	Symposium FA speaker	University of Texas at Austin	Integrated magnetics for power distribution	Power magnetics, from Austin.	source
Polina Ermoshkina	Special session XA speaker	Commonwealth Fusion Systems	Magnetism in nuclear fusion, Tuesday 12:30 PM	The biggest magnets in the building.	source
Nagato Yanagi	Special session XA speaker	National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan	Magnetism in nuclear fusion	Fusion magnet engineering.	source
Gachon University (W. Kim group)	Presenting BQ-05, CQ-10, GR-10	Korea, with Wonkwang University	Post-assembly magnetization; magnetizer for Halbach rotors	The closest magnetizing work in the program.	source
Ames National Laboratory	Chairs and presents across the hard-magnet program	Critical Materials Innovation Hub	EC, GD, CQ, HP-01	Sets much of the rare-earth agenda.	source
Daido Steel	Presenting EC-03 and co-authoring others		Hot-deformed Nd-Fe-B without heavy rare earths	A magnet maker.	source
Tokin Corporation	Presenting EC-04	Shiroishi, Japan	Samarium-cobalt magnets	A magnet maker.	source
Eutectix	Presenting AP-01	Tolleson, Arizona	Industrial view of Nd-Fe-B strip casting	U.S. magnet-alloy supply.	source
Hinetics Inc.	Chairs BQ; presents CQ-12	Champaign, Illinois	Electric machines	Motor developer.	source
Commonwealth Fusion Systems	Special session speaker		Fusion magnets	High-field magnet engineering.	source
Correlated Magnetics Research (Polymagnet)	Exhibitor, Booth 11	Huntsville, Alabama	Digitally magnetized multipole magnets	Polymagnet's booth. The only exhibitor selling magnets.	source
Hirst Magnetic Instruments	Exhibitor	Falmouth, UK	Magnetizers, demagnetizers, gaussmeters, fluxmeters, pulsed-field magnetometers	The exhibitor nearest Polymagnet's equipment line. Also presents GR-05.	source
G3 Magnetics / Group3 Technology	Exhibitor	North American office of a New Zealand maker	Teslameters and Hall probes	Field measurement for magnet quality checks.	source
GMW Associates	Exhibitor; Silver partner		Magnetic sensors, transducers, test and measurement	Measurement and sensors across many markets.	source
Lake Shore Cryotronics	Exhibitor	Westerville, Ohio (a DwyerOmega brand)	Magnetometers, Hall sensors, cryogenic systems	Characterization. Also presents AP-06 on printed NdFeB.	source
Quantum Design	Exhibitor		SQUID magnetometers and materials-characterization systems	The standard research instruments.	source
KLA	Exhibitor	MicroSense and Capres lines	Magnetometers and thin-film metrology	Thin-film and memory metrology.	source
Spin Sensing Factory	Exhibitor	Japan	TMR magnetic sensors	Co-author of CE-04, reading magnetization patterns back.	source
QZabre	Exhibitor		Scanning diamond (NV) magnetometers	Nanoscale field imaging.	source
NanoMagnetics Instruments	Exhibitor	UK	Scanning probe and magnetic force microscopes	Microscale field imaging.	source
Kurt J. Lesker Company	Exhibitor		Thin-film deposition systems	Thin films.	source
Hinds Instruments	Exhibitor; Bronze partner		Photoelastic modulators and magneto-optic kits	Optical measurement of thin films.	source
SNIA	Exhibitor; Bronze partner	Storage industry association	Storage standards, including MRAM	Memory standards.	source
APS Physical Review Journals	Exhibitor; Silver partner	American Physical Society	Physics journals	Publishing.	source
AIP Publishing	Conference sponsor			Co-organizer.	source
IEEE Magnetics Society	Conference sponsor			Co-organizer.	source
Western Digital	Platinum partner		Its staff chair sessions DQ and FD	Storage. The top partner tier.	source
Seagate	Gold partner			Storage.	source
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials	Gold partner	Elsevier		Publishing.	source
Asphetek	Silver partner		Optical and materials process development	Equipment and process.	source
evico magnetics	Bronze partner	Dresden	Kerr microscopes	Imaging magnetization patterns.	source
Materion	Bronze partner		Specialty alloys, powders and metals	Materials supply.	source

Logistics

Airport: Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL), about 10 miles from the hotel. The conference says about 20 minutes by taxi or rideshare. source
Hotel: the group rate was $254 a night plus a $30 daily resort fee. The group deadline passed October 12. source
Registration: $1,190 standard. A booth includes 2 full registrations and 1 exhibit-only badge. Extra staff badges are $100. source
The booth: 10 by 10 feet, 8-foot draped back wall, a 6-foot draped table, two chairs and a sign. Have the display up an hour before the hall opens. source
For the talk: own laptop, USB backup, adapters, 16:9 slides. Slides can be uploaded to the Conference Resource Center by November 6. source
Exhibit questions: Shelbie Jenkins, the conference's partner support manager, shelbie@magnetism.org. source
Planner app: MyItinerary, with the full program and the exhibitor list. source

The read on MMM

MMM is a physics conference first. Most of the program is spintronics, memory, recording and fundamental magnetism. Permanent magnets and machines are a minority, concentrated in the hard-magnet sessions, the machine posters and a handful of application talks.

That makes Polymagnet unusual on the floor. Of the 14 exhibitors, it is the only one selling magnets. The rest sell instruments, deposition tools, standards and journals. Few visitors will buy on the spot. The useful conversations are with researchers who need fields a block magnet can't give them, with the instrument makers a few booths away, and with the labs doing the closest work, such as Ames, NIST and the Gachon magnetizer group.

Tim's twelve minutes are the best twelve minutes of the week for the booth. The talk ends at 3:48 PM Thursday and the room goes straight into the break. One closing line that names Booth 11, and one thing to see there, turns the audience into visitors. Someone else has to hold the booth while he speaks, because the hall stays open until 6:30.

Friday has no exhibits, which frees Tim for the sessions nearest his business: printed magnets in the morning and AI-driven magnet design in the afternoon, both in Coral 2.