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Welcome to the 2021 HPLA

International High Power Laser Ablation Symposium

HPLA 2021 Goes Virtual

The High Power Laser Ablation Conference will go virtual and will be held April 13 – 15th 2021. There are many exciting presentations that need to be given and heard and we look forward to your participation!

International virtual events are tricky due to time differences, but we have developed a schedule to accommodate the largest number of live oral presentations and posters as possible. Pre-recorded presentations will be played for those that are unable to present live. All of the conference presentations - both oral and poster - will be available on demand to attendees after the event so you can view the program at your leisure if you are not able to attend all of the virtual events as they happen. Additionally, there will be many opportunities throughout the event to interact directly with speakers, posters, and other attendees. The 2021 virtual High Power Laser Ablation Symposium (HPLA) will feature:

Three days of dynamic presentations with over 70 talks including 6 Keynote Presentations
Question and answer sessions after presentations
A panel discussion on "The Business Side" of High Power Beam Applications
Networking roundtables
Chat rooms
Side meetings & direct messaging with other attendees

Though we will not get to enjoy each other’s company in-person or all the beauty that Santa Fe has to offer this year, registration fees for attendees will be cut in half which is an added bonus. But most importantly, the critical technology discussions will continue along with ample opportunities to interact with your HPLA colleagues.

We look forward to “seeing” you online in April!

About the Symposium

Since 1998, the International High Power Laser Ablation Symposia have provided a unique forum for exchange of ideas on the physics and application of high power laser-materials interaction, including advances in relevant high power laser sources and problems of beam propagation and detection, in a collegial atmosphere. This will be our thirteenth meeting. The HPLA series is one of the first scientific conferences to be organized around a broad physical phenomenon (laser ablation and its applications) rather than one narrow technology. HPLA treats advances in all related aspects from basic physics to applications.

Since 2002, the International Symposia on Beamed Energy Propulsion have brought together organizations and individuals interested in developing beamed-energy propulsion vehicles, engines, schemes and concepts into space transportation systems of the future. BEP includes microwave sources as well as lasers as drivers. These meetings offer an exceptional opportunity for researchers in the BEP field to present the current results of their studies.

Past keynote speakers for HPLA and BEP have included luminaries such as Prof. Gérard Mourou, Prof. Charles Townes, Prof. Yuri Raizer, Prof. Arthur Kantrowitz, Prof. Oleg Krokhin, Dr. Raymond Kidder, and Prof. Sadao Nakai.

We strive to provide a collegial atmosphere in which a wide array of specialists who might not otherwise meet can talk and learn from each other.

- Dr. Claude Phipps, HPLA Chair

Comments From Previous Attendees

“We enjoyed the high scientific level of presentations, and we liked the hard discussions after the presentations. You have done your work very successfully. We believe that attendees are of the same opinion.”

“I met colleagues known previously only from the scientific literature. The conference served to make new connections and to exchange ideas and establish new collaborations.”

“It is one of the best conferences that attracts a broad research community from the huge field of laser ablation and applications.”

“I learned a lot from this conference and that is the best outcome. I will return home with new ideas and with new energy to make these ideas true. Warm atmosphere of the conference supplied me with new power and added optimism.”