11th IUVSTA School on Lasers in Materials Science - SLIMS
8-15 July 2012, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy

SLIMS-2012 PROGRAM
Sunday, July 8
14.00-20.00:Registration (San Servolo Conference Centre)

Monday, July 9
07:30:Breakfast
09.00-09.30:Opening Ceremony
09.45-10.45:Fundamentals I: Types of lasers and laser optics
Lecturer: Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt University, USA
11.15-12.15:Fundamentals II: Material response to laser energy deposition (non-thermal processes)
Lecturer: Wolfgang Kautek, University of Vienna, Austria
12.20:Lunch
13.50-14.40:Atomic/molecular level simulations of laser-matter interactions
Lecturer: Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia, USA
15.00-16.10:Oral presentations by students I (13 presentations, 5 min. each)
16.30-17.20:Classroom 1
17.30-18.50:Poster Session I
19.00:Dinner

Tuesday, July 10
07:30:Breakfast
09.00-10.00:Fundamentals III: Material response to laser energy deposition (thermal and hyperthermal processes)
Lecturer: Juergen Reif, BTU Cottbus, Germany
10.30-11.30:Fundamentals IV: Plasma plume dynamics
Lecturer: Chantal Boulmer-Leborgne, University of Orleans, France
12.00:Lunch
13.40-14.30:Ultra-short pulse nanostructuring of glasses
Lecturer: Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
14.50-16.00:Oral presentations by students II (13 presentations, 5 min. each)
16.20-17.10:Classroom 2
17.20-18.40:Poster Session II
19.00:Dinner

Wednesday, July 11
07:30:Breakfast
09.00-09.50:Continuum models of fs laser ablation
Lecturer: Nadezhda Bulgakova, Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Russia
10.10-11.00:Laser nanostructuring of soft matter
Lecturer: Marta Castillejo, Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC, Spain
11.20-12.10:Mechanisms of plasma-mediated laser interactions with biological tissue, and their use in laser surgery of cells and tissues
Lecturer: Alfred Vogel, Institute of Biomedical Optics, University of Lübeck, Germany
12.15:Lunch
Afternoon:Free
19.00:Dinner

Thursday, July 12
07:30:Breakfast
09.00-11.00:Oral presentations by students III (20 presentations, 5 min. each)
11.10-12.00:Laser interactions for the synthesis and diagnostics of carbon nanomaterials
Lecturer: David Geohegan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
12.15:Lunch
14.30-15.20:Multifunctional oxides obtained by PLD: application to ferroelectrics, ferromagnetics, multiferroic and photovoltaics
Lecturer: Maria Dinescu, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
15.40-16.30:MALDI and MAPLE: theory and experiment
Lecturer: Anna Paola Caricato, University of Salento, Italy
16.50-18.40:Poster Session III
19.30:Dinner

Friday, July 13
07:30:Breakfast
09.00-09.50:Industrial applications of laser-materials processing
Lecturer: Peter Schaaf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
10.10-11.00:Organic and/or inorganic nanostructured layers for applications in biocide, drug delivery, biomimetic or biosensing coatings
Lecturer: Ion Mihailescu, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics, Romania
11.20-12.10:Laser versus ion induced sputtering
Lecturer: Antonio Miotello, University of Trento, Italy
12.15:Lunch
14.00-14.50:Isolated attosecond pulses for atomic and molecular physics
Lecturer: Mauro Nisoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
15.20:Guided tour at an Exhibition in Venice
vaporetto to Venice leaves at 15.20
to come back to S. Servolo for dinner take vaporetto either at 18.45 or at 19.15
19.00:Dinner

Saturday, July 14
07:30:Breakfast
09.10-09.50:Nucleation and growth of nanoparticles
Lecturer: Paolo Ossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
10.10-11.10:Round Table on "PLD: overview of the current state, future directions and challenges"
Discussion leader: Maria Dinescu, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
11.20-12.30:R. Kelly Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks
12.30:Lunch