Organizers

• International Society for Opt. Engineering (SPIE) and its Russian Chapter
• Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland
• General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
• Center of Laser Technology and Material Science at GPI, Moscow, Russia

   Key Topics

High-Power Material Processing
Material processing with lasers with high average power. Scientific reports on laser welding, laser cutting, laser polishing, hardening with lasers, etc.

Novel Laser Sources for Material Processing
Lasers for material processing. High-average power lasers or pulsed lasers with high peak power.

Beam Control and Diagnostics
Novel methods to control and to improve laser beams. Improvements of laser beam quality and custom-mode generation (such as super-Gaussian beams). Novel developments on beam diagnostics, beam delivery and pattern generation.

Interaction and Process Diagnostics
Scientific developments on diagnostics of the laser–matter interaction. Monitoring and controlling of laser machining processes.

Laser Micromachining
Laser material processing with high precision: microstructuring, microhole drilling, sintering, thin film deposition, etc.

Conference Chair

Alexander M. Prokhorov, Russia

Program Committee Co-chairs

Heinz P. Weber, Switzerland
Vitaly I. Konov, Russia

Organizing Committee Co-chairs

Vladimir I. Pustovoy, Russia
Willy A.R. Lüthy, Switzerland

Local Organising Committee

Thomas Graf, Switzerland
Valerio Romano, Switzerland

International Program Committee

Viktor Apollonov, Russia
Michel Autric, France
Dieter Bäuerle, Austria
Alexey Bonch-Bruevich, Russia
Douglas Chrisey, USA
Olinda Conde, Poland
Dan C. Dumitras, Romania
Aldo Ferrari, Italy
Costas Fotakis, Greece
David B. Geohegan, USA
Anna Giardini, Italy
Frans Harren, Netherlands
James Horwitz, USA

Pavel Kashkarov, Russia
Lucien D. Laude, Belgium
Chantal Leborgne, France
Mikhail Libenson, Russia
Armando Luches, Italy
Vladislav Panchenko, Russia
Alessio Perrone, Italy
René.P. Salathe, Switzerland
Markus Siegrist, Switzerland
Michael Stuke, Germany
Ivan Shcherbakov, Russia
Vadim Veiko, Russia