30^th Rare Earth Research Conference

The 30^th Rare Earth Research Conference (RERC30) is scheduled for Sunday, June 15 through Thursday, June 19, 2025. The conference will be held in suburban Chicago at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois (U.S.).

View the RERC30 Conference Program.

The Rare Earth Research Conference, encompasses topics at the forefront of research with the rare earth and actinide elements, including:

• Biological and Bioinorganic Chemistry
• f-Element Materials for Quantum Information
• Lanthanide and Actinide Coordination Chemistry
• Lanthanide and Actinide Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
• Luminescence and Luminescent Materials
• Molecular Magnetism
• Separations and Critical Materials
• Solid State Chemistry and Physics
• Theory Computation and Spectroscopy

2025 Frank H. Spedding Award for Research in Rare Earth Science

The 2025 Spedding Award will be presented to Paul C. Canfield of Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory on Sunday, June 15.

Paul C. Canfield, Ph.D., graduated, summa cum laude, with a B.S. in physics from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) in 1983. He received his M.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his Ph.D. in 1990, having researched experimental condensed matter physics. From 1990 to 1993, Dr. Canfield was a postdoctoral researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, working with Drs. Joe Thompson and Zachary Fisk. In 1993, Dr. Canfield joined the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University (Ames). Since then, he has become a senior physicist in at the laboratory a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the university, holding the Robert Allen Wright Professorship. 

Dr. Canfield’s research is centered on the design, discovery, growth and characterization of novel electronic and magnetic materials. He has made key contributions to the fields of superconductivity, heavy fermions, quantum criticality, quasicrystals, spin glasses, local-moment metamagnetism, and metal-to-insulator transitions. Dr. Canfield has helped to educate and train researchers on the rare earths and experimental, new-materials-physics throughout the world, emphasizing the need to tightly couple growth (often in single crystal form) and measurement of new materials. 

Dr. Canfield is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He was awarded the 2011 Department of Energy Lawrence Award for Condensed Matter Physics. In 2014, Dr. Canfield was awarded the APS David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, and was named a Gordon and Betty Moore Materials Synthesis Investigator. In 2015, he received the Humboldt Research Award, and he has been awarded the APS 2017 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials. In 2020 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2023 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Registration

Visit the registration website for conference registration and abstract submission. The site will be updated with details, and also include guidance on lodging and transportation. 

Site access passes to Argonne are required for all conference participants. It is strongly suggested that ALL participants register for site access prior to registering for the conference.

Email Richard Wilson, conference chair, if you have questions or need more information about RERC30.