Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields was first held in 1991 to celebrate the award of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to Florida State University, University of Florida, and Los Alamos National laboratory, and to identify the most important topics in materials science at the extremes. Held at FSU, the four-day international conference attracted more than 150 theorists and experimentalists.

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida.

PPHMF-II was held four years later in May of 1995. The lab's headquarters in Tallahassee had just recently completed construction and full-scale scientific operations were underway. The topics covered reflected the interdisciplinary nature of science in high magnetic fields, and included semiconductors, heavy fermions, molecular conductors, mesoscopic phenomena, superconductivity, magnetic resonance, biology and chemistry.

Based on the success of the 1995 conference and with much enthusiasm, organizers decided to continue the tradition and hold the conference approximately every three years. And so they have, through the fall of the Soviet Union and 9/11, graduate students and Nobel Laureates alike continue to look forward to the PPHMF conference, where the top scientists in the field cover a wide range of experimental techniques and identify new opportunities in magnetic field research.

Past conferences

Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields
Tallahassee, FL
May 15-18, 1991

Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields – II
Tallahassee, FL
May 6-9, 1995

Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields – III
Tallahassee, FL
October 24-27, 1998

Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields – IV
Sante Fe, NM
October 19-25, 2001
Included the J. Robert Schrieffer Anniversary Symposium, October 19, 2001

Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields – V
Tallahassee, FL
August 5-9, 2005

Physical Phenomena at High Magnetic Fields – VI
Tallinn, Estonia
August 1-5, 2008