Professor Jacek Furdyna, the Aurora and Thomas Marquez Chair, was invited to the Organizing Committee of the “56th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials” held in Scottsdale, Arizona, October 30–November 3, 2011. He took part in organizing the sessions on Magnetic Semiconductors at that conference, and chaired the Session on Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Oxides on November 3.
Professor Furdyna was also invited to present, jointly with Professor Xinyu Liu, an Invited Talk at the “International Workshop on II-VI and III-V Semiconductor Materials and their Integration” held at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, November 8-9, 2011. The title of the Invited Talk was “Integration of GaSb and ZnTe by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.”