Name: HEPTech Academia Meets Industry on Industrial Applications of High Energy Lasers
Start: 2015-03-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-03-05T17:00:00+01:00
Location: HiLASE

Wednesday 4 March
- Wed 4 Mar
- Thu 5 Mar
- Registration and Welcome Lunch
- 1
  
  Welcome Address
  
  Speaker: Dr T. Mocek (Scientific Coordinator of HiLASE)
- 2
  
  Opening Remarks
  
  Speaker: Ales Hala (Institute of Physics)
- 3
  
  HEPTech and HiLASE
  
  Speaker: Ian Tracey (HEPTech Coordinator)
- Laser Shock Peening
  - 4
    
    Integrated Modelling/Diagnosis/Testing Methodology in LSP Process Development for the Improvement of Fatigue Life of Metallic Components
    
    Speaker: Prof. Jose Luis Ocana (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
  - 5
    
    Laser Shock Peening Technology Development for Airframe Structures: a South African Initiative
    
    Speaker: Dr Claudia Polese (Johannesburg University)
  - 6
    
    Smart Surface Technology Development for Aerospace, Industrial and Biomedical Systems
    
    Speaker: Dr Mannava S.R. (Cincinnati University)
  - 7
    
    Laser shot-peening for wear protection of laser hardened steam turbine blades
    
    Speaker: Dr Steffen Bonss ((Fraunhofer, Dresden))
- 15:30
  
  Coffee and Networking break
- Laser applications in industry: Successful stories and limitations
  - 8
    
    Laser shock peening: Successful stories and requirements for application in aeronautics
    
    Speaker: Dr Ulrike Heckenberger (Airbus Operations GmbH)
  - 9
    
    Comau Laser Solutions and Trends in Automotive
    
    Speaker: Magnano Nunzio (Comau S.p.A., Italy)
  - 10
    
    Technology Transfer: the impact, adoption and uptake of Laser based Production Processes
    
    Speaker: Louise Jones (KTN)
- Round Table: Laser Shock Peening
- 19:00
  
  Dinner
Thursday 5 March
- Wed 4 Mar
- Thu 5 Mar
- Welcome Coffee and HiLASE Laboratory
- Laser Induced Damage Threshold: State of the Art
  - 11
    
    A new generation of diode pump sources opens the way to high-performance but cost-efficient DPSSL's
    
    Speaker: Ragnar Boedefeld ((Lastronics Jena, Germany))
  - 12
    
    Laser damage resistance of optical components: limitations and improvement of damage threshold.
    
    Speaker: Dr Gallais Laurent (L’Institut Fresnel, Unité Mixte de Recherche)
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 13
    
    Laser damage measurements at HiLASE
    
    Speaker: Dr Jan Vanda (HiLASE)
  - 14
    
    LIDT studies for the design of meter-scale high-reflective coatings for ultra-fast high power laser systems
    
    Speaker: Dr Adrien Hervy (REOSC)
- 12:00
  
  Lunch
- Impact of Research in Industry
  - 15
    
    Influence of one Research centre to local industry
    
    Speaker: Prof. G. Račiukaitis (University of Vilnius)
  - 16
    
    Technology transfer in optics and laser: How to turn photons into gold
    
    Speaker: Dr Arnaud Zoubir (AlphaNov)
- 17
  
  Round Table - Networking and consortiums for Horizon 2020