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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the town council under the authority of a royal charter from King James VI in 1582 and officially opened in 1583, it is one of Scotland’s four ancient universities and the sixth-oldest university in continuous operation in the English-speaking world.
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A Shaped Magnetic Pulse Could Slash the Energy of Storing a Bit

Physicists in Edinburgh borrowed optimal control theory, the maths of fuel-efficient trajectories, to sculpt magnetic pulses that flip a bit in a few trillionths of a second while spending, in simulation, up to a hundredth of the usual energy.

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