The SCUM meeting started in 1996 as Los Angeles Area Magnets Experts (LAME). The information of the past meetings is shown below.
Los Angeles Area Magnets Experts (LAME)
# Year, Month Location Chair(s)
1) 1996, Jul. UCLA Deniz Cizmeciyan
2) 1997, Jan Cal Tech Deniz Cizmeciyan
3) 1997, Jul. UCLA Deniz Cizmeciyan
4) 1998, Mar UCLA Deniz Cizmeciyan
5) 1999, Jan. Isis Pharmaceuticals Patrick Wheeler
6) 1999, Jul. UC Irvine Melanie Cocco
7) 2000, Mar. UCLA Jane Strouse
8) 2000, Oct. Scripps Research Institute Laura Pasternack
9) 2001, May City of Hope
10) 2001, Oct. UCLA Jane Strouse
Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM), Renamed
11) 2002, Jun. Scripps Research Institute Laura Pasternack
12) 2002, Oct. Pomona College Wayne Steinmetz/Dan O’Leary
13) 2003, Jun. Mount Saint Mary's University Deniz Cizmeciyan
14) 2003, Dec. UCLA
15) 2004, Oct. Cal Tech
16) 2006, Feb. UC Irvine Athan J. Shaka
17) 2006, Dec. UC Riverside
18) 2008, Jun. UC Irvine Athan J. Shaka
19) 2009, Dec. UC Riverside
20) 2011, Apr. UC Irvine Melanie Cocco
21) 2011, Nov. University of La Verne Iraj Parchamazad
22) 2014, Apr. UC Riverside Cindy Larive/Len Mueller
23) 2015, Aug. Sanford-Burnham Prebys Francesca Marassi/Pat Jennings
24) 2016, Mar. UCLA Jane Strouse
25) 2017, Apr. USC-Health Science Campus Ansgar Siemer
26) 2018, May UC Irvine Rachel Martin
27) 2019, Dec. UC San Diego Galia Debelouchina
28) 2020, Feb. UC Riverside (zoom) Len Mueller
29) 2021 Zoom Len Mueller/Galia Debelouchina
30) 2022, Sep. UC Santa Barbara Mark Sherwin/Songi Han
31) 2023, Sep. USC Susumu Takahashi
32) 2024, Oct. UCLA Louis Bouchard/Susumu Takahashi
33) 2025, Sep. UC Irvine Melanie Cocco/Susumu Takahashi