8th Venice International School on Lasers in Materials Science (SLIMS)

July 14-20, 2024, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy

A brief description of lectures can be found under this link
Information on Student Presentations can be found under this link

SLIMS-2024 PROGRAM
Sunday, July 14
16.00-20.00:Registration

Monday, July 15
07:30:Breakfast
08.45-09.15:Opening Ceremony
SESSION 1
Chair: Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
09.15-10.00:Lecture 1: Laser physics for materials scientists
Lecturer: Juergen Reif, BTU Cottbus, Germany
10.15-11.00:Lecture 2: Modeling of laser-matter interaction: Linking theory and experiment
Lecturer: Nadezhda Bulgakova, HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics CAS, Czech Republic
11.15-12.10:Oral presentations by students I (10 presentations)
Alia Ashraf, Ahmad Reshad Bakhtari, Mulugeta Gebrekiros Berhe, Lasse Bienkowski, Grigorios Boulogiannis, Carlos Buendia, Chaobo Chen, Guilherme Concas, Mehdi Fawaz, Niladri Ganguly
Chair: Thomas Lippert, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
12.25:Lunch
14.30-15.30:Oral presentations by students II (12 presentations)
Kristýna Gazdová, Oana Gherasim, Tobias Held, Lorenté Hugo, Shotaro Kawano, Wataru Kimura, Brett Kuwik, Evdokia Kyriakou, Lynda Lounis, Mania Majumder, Aram Melkonyan, Rupeng Miao
Chair: Jörg Hermann, French National Research Centre CNRS, France
SESSION 2
Chair: Wolfgang Kautek, University of Vienna, Austria
15.45-16.30:Lecture 3: Laser ablation synthesis of nanoparticles for laser additive manufacturing
Lecturer: Bilal Gökce, University of Wuppertal, Germany
16.45-17.30:Lecture 4: Ultrafast laser 3D micro and nanoprocessing
Lecturer: Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
17.45-19.00:Classroom 1 (for Lectures 1-4; in two locations, for lectures 1-2 and 3-4)
19.30:Dinner

Tuesday, July 16
07:30:Breakfast
SESSION 3
Chair: Gediminas Račiukaitis, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania
09.00-9.45:Lecture 5: Laser-induced non-thermal processes
Lecturer: Wolfgang Kautek, University of Vienna, Austria
10.00-10.45:Lecture 6: Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of oxide materials: Fundamental aspects
Lecturer: Thomas Lippert, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
11.00-12.00:Oral presentations by students III (12 presentations)
Hanan Mir, Anna Münzer, Vita Petrikaitė, Achu Purushothaman, Tania Ribeiro, Enzo Rolando, Romain Scarabelli, Nicolas Thomae, Kernius Vilkevičius, Chamari Weththasingha, Yuan Xu, Amani Yassine
Chair: Juergen Reif, BTU Cottbus, Germany
12.15:Lunch
SESSION 4
Chair: Nadezhda Bulgakova, HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics CAS, Czech Republic
14.00-14.45:Lecture 7: Laser-induced thermal processes: From thermoelastic response to melting, vaporization, and phase explosion
Lecturer: Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia, USA
15.00-15.45:Lecture 8: Understanding and tailoring laser ablation processes with in situ diagnostics for thin film and nanostructure growth
Lecturer: David Geohegan, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA
16.00-17.30:Classroom 2 (for Lectures 5-8; in two locations, for lectures 5-6 and 7-8)
19.30:Dinner

Wednesday, July 17
07:30:Breakfast
SESSION 5
Chair: Maria Dinescu, INFLPR, Romania
09.00-09.45:Lecture 9: Ultrashort pulse lasers: From research to real applications
Lecturer: Gediminas Račiukaitis, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania
10.00-10.45:Lecture 10: Controlled laser synthesis of nanoparticle arrays with an application to therapeutic drug monitoring
Lecturer: Paolo Ossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
11.00-12.30:Poster Session I
12.45:Lunch
SESSION 6
Chair: Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia, USA
14.30-15.15:Lecture 11: High-order harmonic generation: a spectroscopic tool on the attosecond and angstrom scale
Lecturer: Salvatore Stagira, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
15.30-17.00:Classroom 3 (for Lectures 9-11)
17.30-18.30:Socializing at the bar
19.30:Dinner

Thursday, July 18
07:30:Breakfast
SESSION 7
Chair: Bilal Gökce, University of Wuppertal, Germany
09.00-09.45:Lecture 12: Direct energy deposition additive manufacturing: Computational fluid dynamics modeling and experimental verification
Lecturer: Ion Mihailescu, INFLPR, Romania
10.00-11.30:Poster Session II
11.30-12.30:Lecturers Meeting
12.30:Lunch
Afternoon:Proposed tour at Biennale Venezia – Arte; vaporetto to Venice leaves at 14.50; to come back to S. Servolo for dinner take the vaporetto at 19.10
19.30:Dinner

Friday, July 19
07:30:Breakfast
SESSION 8
Chair: Salvatore Stagira, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
09.00-09.45:Lecture 13: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
Lecturer: Jörg Hermann, French National Research Centre CNRS, France
10.00-10.45:Lecture 14: Lasers in soft material processing: Laser direct writing via multi photon absorption and laser induced forward transfer
Lecturer: Maria Dinescu, INFLPR, Romania
11.00-11.45:Lecture 15: Matrix-assisted laser-based analysis and deposition techniques
Lecturer: Anna Paola Caricato, University of Salento, Italy
12.00:Lunch
14.00-14.45:Lecture 16: Laser versus ion-induced sputtering processes in solids and production of new materials of interest for energy and the environment fields
Lecturer: Antonio Miotello, University of Trento, Italy
19.30:Dinner

Saturday, July 20
07:30:Breakfast
08.45-10.30:Classroom 4 (for Lectures 12-16) and Plenary Discussion
10.45-11.30:Questionnaire compilation by students
10.45-11.30:Lecturers meeting
11.45-12.30:R. Kelly Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks
12.45:Lunch