9:30 – 10:15

W-I.1

magnetostrictiON In FeTbDy AND FeGa

D. Lord

Institute for Materials Research, University of Salford, Salford, U.K.

10:15 – 11:00

W-I.2

THE FERROMAGNETIC SHAPE-MEMORY EFFECT IN Ni-Mn-Ga

M.A. Marioni^*,#, R.C. O’Handley^#, S.M. Allen^#, S.R. Hall^#, D.I. Paul^#,

M.L. Richard^#, J. Feuchtwanger^#, B.W. Peterson^#, J.M. Chambers^#,

R. Techapiesancharoenkij^#

*EMPA Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, SWITZERLAND

^#Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE

11:30 – 12:00

W-I.3

MAGNETOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS AND NANOSTRUCTURED MAGNETIC MATERIALS

H. Chiriac

National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, Iasi, ROMANIA

12:00 – 12:45

W-I.4

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE VIBRATION DEVICE, OPERATION AND APPLICATION POTENTIAL

C. May

Centre for Innovative Production (ZIP), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, GERMANY

12:45 – 14:45

LUNCH

14:45 – 15:30

W-I.5

SELF-SENSING EFFECTS IN SOLID-STATE ACTUATORS

K. Kuhnen

Laboratory of Process Automation (LPA), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, GERMANY

15:30 – 16:00

W-I.6

HIGH POWER MECHANO-MAGNETIC ENERGY TRANSDUCTION

C. Tyren

TACT Scientific Consulting, IRELAND

16:00 – 16:45

W-I.7

THE PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF WATER-CAST AMORPHOUS SOFT MAGNETIC ALLOY WIRES FOR FLUXGATE SENSOR APPLICATIONS

G.A. Badini Confalonieri, M.R.J. Gibbs and H.A. Davies

Sheffield Centre for Advanced Magnetic Materials and Devices, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.

16:45 – 17:00

COFFEE

17:00 – 19:30

WP1 and WP5 Round Table Meeting - EC MESEMA Project

20:00 – 23:00

                                            Workshop DINNER