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Welcome to the 2010 International High-Power Laser Ablation Conference!

The HPLA series addresses all aspects of the interaction of lasers with condensed matter, from fundamental theory and simulations to material processing. Groundbreaking physics is discussed for its own sake, but we also devote some sessions, as appropriate, to recent advances in laser physics which are of use in applications.  In the past, these have ranged from femtosecond material processing to space propulsion.

At the 2010 conference, we plan to have an update on the status of NIF, the National Ignition Facility.  Our overall goal is to bring together leading specialists in laser-materials interaction physics and laser science in a collegial atmosphere with all-plenary sessions. The range of topics is diverse, but the focus within each is on fundamental results.  Therefore, attendees can expect to learn about the very latest results at a depth usually reserved for specialist conferences, but in a broader range tied together by the physical phenomenon of high power laser ablation.  Because there is only time in our four-day format for a representative sample of forefront oral papers, the majority of papers are presented at our evening poster sessions, which have become a focus for the exchange of new ideas.

  
 

Abstracts received after October 8, 2009, if accepted, will be automatically placed in the poster session.  No additional oral presentations can be considered because the agenda is full.

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Make the most of your trip to Santa Fe! Check out the Santa Fe section
of the lodging & travel page for more information.

 

Lead Corporate Sponsor:

Proposed topics:

  • Laser-matter Interaction Physics and Simulations

  • Simulations

  • Short-pulse Laser-matter Interactions I

  • Short-pulse Laser-matter Interactions II

  • Near-field Effects

  • Nano-processing and Engineering of Materials

  • Biomedical Applications

  • Laser Ablation Propulsion

  • Advances in oxygen-iodine lasers

  • Optically-pumped Lasers

  • Advances in promising new laser technologies (diode, alkali, etc.)

  • PLD, MAPLE and Processing of Advanced Materials

  • High Power Lasers Application and Diagnostics

  • Applications: Laser Space Debris Mitigation and Planetary Defense

Symposium Chair:

Dr. Claude R. Phipps
Managing Partner
Photonic Associates, LLC
Santa Fe (USA)

Important Conference Facts:

  • The conference language will be English.

  • This will be our eighth meeting.

Our attendees are forefront specialists in the basic physics of laser-materials interactions, high-power lasers, materials science, femtosecond lasers and effects, beam propagation, beam forming, diagnostics and detection. 

Past keynote speakers have included luminaries such as Prof. Charles Townes, Prof. Yuri Raizer, Prof. Arthur Kantrowitz, Prof. Oleg Krokhin, Dr. Raymond Kidder, and Prof. Sadao Nakai.

Previous symposia were held in Santa Fe (1998), Osaka (1999), and in Santa Fe or Taos, New Mexico on even-numbered years subsequently from 2000 to 2008.

Papers will be published on a proceedings DVD and distributed at the Conference to those ordering the Proceedings in advance.

 

On behalf of the entire Program Committee, we look forward to seeing you in beautiful, historic Santa Fe in April 2010. 

Program Committee:

Sergei Anisimov
L. D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics (Russia)

Victor Apollonov
General Physics Institute (Russia)

Michel Autric
Université de la Méditerranée (France)

Dieter Bäuerle
Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)

Willy Bohn
BohnLaser Consult Stuttgart (Germany)

Boris Chichkov
Laser Zentrum Hannover (Germany)

Gordon Hager
Air Force Research Laboratory (USA)

Richard Haglund
Vanderbilt University (USA)

Victor Hasson
Trex Enterprises (USA)

Andrei Ionin
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute (Russia

Michael Lander
General Dynamics Information Technology (USA)

Thomas Lippert
Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland)

Boris Luk’yanchuk
Data Storage Institute ASTAR (Singapore)

Max Michaelis
University of Natal, Durban (South Africa)

Minoru Obara
Keio University (Japan)

Dennis Paisley
Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

Bärbel Rethfeld
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten
University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)

Takashi Yabe
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

 
 

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