11^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LASER ABLATION

November 13-19, 2011

Playa del Carmen México (International Airport: Cancún)

Announcement #1

We have received 327 abstracts which together with invited talks makes over 340 contributions for COLA2011! We are in the process of sending the corresponding notification letters which some of you have already received we expect to finish in the next few days. For those of you who have been asked to load the abtract in pdf version the procedure in easy chair is as follows:

Please log in to your EasyChair account. Choose the Paper+PaperID option in the top menu.

Look for the options found in the upper right corner (update information, update authors, submit a new version).

Choose "Submit a new version". Finally, upload the new file you wish to submit.

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

11^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LASER ABLATION

November 13-19, 2011

Playa del Carmen México (International Airport: Cancun)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

To all participants,

Urgent ! We need your abstracts in PDF format as soon as possible, see procedure here.

Reduced fee: Reduced fee due date has been extended to September 30, 2011

Late submissions: COLA 2011 is now accepting late submissions. Notice that late submissions will be allocated as poster presentations, since in the tradition of COLA, we have again managed to avoid parallel sessions. All contributing papers will be eligible for publication in the corresponding special issue of Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing (Springer)following the standard refereeing procedure of the journal.

To upload your ABSTRACT,  you have to register HERE.

Select abstract submission only. Send PDF format please.

The late submissions site is open until September 30, 2011.

COLA 2011 will focus both on the fundamentals of laser - materials interactions and their forefront applications in pulsed laser deposition, ablation, analytical methods, industrial processes, biology, materials, and micro/nano processing.

Deadlines (still subject to small changes):

Abstracts: The electronic submission will be open from February 28 to May 20, 2011

Acceptance of abstract: Communication on the acceptance will be sent electronically no later than June 30, 2011

Conference registration: Conference Registration will open June 17, 2011.

Reduced fee: Reduced fee will apply for registrations confirmed until September 16, 2011

Chairs: E. Haro-Poniatowski (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, México)

W. Hess (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory USA)

H. Niino (Photonics Research Institute, Tsukuba Japan)

A. Zergioti (National Technical University of Athens Greece)