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Description
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LSU and Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories, Palo Alto recently completed an NSF
GOALI-supported one-year collaboration involving research in
magnetic materials. The program provided student support and
travel to HP Labs and relevant scientific conferences,
interactions which stimulated an exchange of ideas and
technical capabilities, and insights into new opportunities
for materials research and device applications. Both
institutions benefited from the program. Many important
developments arose from brain-storming sessions which
occurred at HP Labs and in evening gatherings at two
conferences that were jointly attended. At these meetings,
researchers from HP brought a consortium of industrial and
academic researchers together to discuss the latest hot
topics in materials and in their applications.
Through these interactions,
the program contributed additional fundamental physical
insights that were useful to Hewlett-Packard in developing
fresh concepts in the limitations and promises of the new
materials. Beyond these direct interactions, industrial
researchers also benefited through stimulating fundamental
research in the academic setting which would be too
time-consuming and involved specialized instrumentation and
techniques difficult for them to justify in the business
environment. Hewlett -Packard also appreciated the
additional manpower for studies of new materials.
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