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2009PrefaceDear Reader,You have before you the first annual report of the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI),created on the 1st of January 2009 through the merger of the Laboratoire des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (Grenoble)and the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Pulsés (Toulouse). The LNCMI is a “Unité Propre de Recherche”of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UPR3228) and is part of the French “Très Grands Equipements”.The laboratory is associated with the Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, the Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouseand the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse. Its activities are also supported by the EC FP7 “Largeinfrastructures” program, where it is the coordinator of the EuroMagNET2 Integrating Activity.This report intends to provide a complete overview of the in-house and collaborative scientific and technical activities in2009 of the LNCMI.The 24MW power supply of the Grenoble site, dedicated to the generation of static fields, allows either to operate simultaneouslytwo resistive 10MW magnets or to operate one 24 MW magnet. The highest field generated at the LNCMI-G is35 T in a 34 mm bore diameter. A hybrid magnet, capable of generating 43 T is currently under construction.The 14 MJ capacitor bank generator of the Toulouse site, dedicated to the generation of pulsed fields, allows to generatefields up to 80 T. An installation to generate destructive pulsed fields up to 300 T is nearing its completion.This report and the list of publications show the importance and the interest of results obtained in magnetic fields, eitheron the basis of in-house research or as a result of a close collaboration with several research groups from many differentcountries.In addition, the LNCMI is proud to contribute to the training of young scientists by giving them the opportunity to preparetheir thesis work and/or to participate to European research activities.Finally, a word of thanks to the scientific, technical and administrative staff of the laboratory (altogether 90 people),our post docs and PhD students (almost 30) and the numerous visitors (over 200 this year) for their contributions to theimprovement of the installation and for the quality of their work.Geert RikkenDecember 20091