The OSU EECS colloquium on Thursday afternoon is postponed until a future date (TBA). The 9am colloquiums will still take place, today, Thursday, Friday, and next Tuesday. Please see http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/graduate/colloquium/ for details.
Below is the Thursday morning colloquium abstract. Thursday January 27 9:00 - 9:50 AM Owen 102 Dr. Pallavi Dhagat Instructor School of EECS Oregon State University Disk Drives - the parking space for data on the information superhighway The need for storing information goes as far back as recorded history itself. Today, hard disk drives serve this need as arguably the most sophisticated mass storage devices ever. However, with areal densities (in Gbits/in2) road-mapped to grow ten-fold every decade, the shrinking magnetic 'bit' is threatened by superparamagnetism or the spontaneous erosion of its magnetization over time. In this magnetically-stored presentation, I will introduce the principle of magnetic recording and discuss my work on superparamagnetism and the challenges in engineering an antidote to it. Biography Dr. Pallavi Dhagat holds a doctoral degree from Washington University, St. Louis, where her research focused on the characterization of thermal reversal of magnetic grains. She has an extensive background in magnetic recording technology as a recording physicist. Prior to joining OSU as an instructor, she was a research engineer in the Advanced Concepts Group at Seagate Technology, Minneapolis. Here she made significant contribution to the development of perpendicular recording technology. Her research interests include information storage, magnetization dynamics, magnetic nano-metrology, bio-magnetic sensors and distributed sensor systems. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
