International Conference on Magnetism and Metallurgy (WMM) - a biennial international conference aiming at bringing together scientists and electrical engineers engaged in applications of magnetic materials, but with particular attention towards electrical steels. ¹⁾

The conference was established in 2004 by the Institute of Metal Forming (Institut für Metallformung) at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.²⁾.

Initially, the conference was called International Workshop on “Magnetism and Metallurgy”³⁾ with the acronym WMM, by which the conference is referred to nowadays, even though the full name was changed to “International Conference on Magnetism and Metallurgy”.

It is also referred to as International Conference “Magnetism and Metallurgy”⁴⁾ and Magnetism and Metallurgy Conference.⁵⁾

The conferences in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 were held at Department of Material Science and Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium.

The conference in 2014 was hosted by Wolfson Centre for Magnetics at Cardiff University, UK. There were around 80 participants, with 28 invited speakers from 14 countries, including Europe, Japan, China, USA and Brazil.⁶⁾

• Advances in process techniques: metallurgical routes
• Application of new techniques for casting and hot rolling to electrical steels
• Progresses in electrical steel grades and other soft magnetic materials as well as hard magnetic materials
• Thin electrical steel grades
• Electrical steels with cube or other textures
• Electrical steels for energy efficient electrical machines and variable speed drives
• Improved material characterisation and progress on modelling the effects of magnetic materials in electrical machines
• Progress in modelling the evolution of microstructure and texture along the metallurgical processing route

• Prof. J. Schneider, Freiber and Dresden, Germany

• Prof. R. Kawalla, Freiberg, Germany
• Prof. Y. Houbaert, Gent, Belgium
• Prof. A.J. Moses, Cardiff, UK

• B. Grieb, Germany
• G. H. Johnston, USA
• S. Siebert, Germany
• S. Constantinides, US
• G. Ombach, Germany
• S. Fortunati, Italy
• Ye Feng, China
• F. Landgraf, Brazil

Apart from academia and research institutions, the conference is usually well attended by producers of magnetic materials⁷⁾: Arnold Magnetic Technologies, ThyssenKrupp Stahl, Voestalpine, Tempel Steel, Magnequench, Vacuumschmelze, ArcelorMittal, Aperam, Tata Steel, AK Steel Corporation, CD Wälzholz, NLMK, US Steel, Baosteel, Höganäs, China Steel, Cogent.

Producers and users of electrical machines or electromagnetic components: Roberg Bosch, Vaöeo, Alstom, ABB, Cogent Power, Schneider Electric, Daimler, Elesa Transformadoes SA, LCD LaserCut, WISCO.

• List of electromagnetic conferences

• http://www.imf.tu-freiberg.de/wmm2014 - official website