Seventy years after the first detection of interstellar magnetic fields, experts met in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, on 10–14 June 2019, to discuss new perspectives on interstellar magnetic fields from small to large scales, from the Milky Way to distant galaxies and from observations to theories and simulations.
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We thank all participants for contributing to the great atmosphere at the conference and for bringing their excellent science to the meeting: we are sorry that we could not mention all of the contributions. The other members of the Science Organizing Committee — K. Ferrière (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenées, France), C. Horellou (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) and C. Pfrommer (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany) — provided invaluable help in organizing the conference and in revising this Meeting Report. We are grateful to Newcastle University and its School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, the Royal Astronomical Society and RadioNet for financial support.
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Fletcher, A., Mao, S.A. New perspectives on galactic magnetism. Nat Astron 3, 965–966 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0922-9
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