When Silke Pflueger attended her first ICALEO® in San Diego in the 1990s, she was a bit overwhelmed by having to give a talk about her work.
“The first presentation is scary,” she recalls. But that initial involvement has led Pflueger all the way to serving as congress general chair of ICALEO, the International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics, to be held Oct. 18-22 at the Sheraton Atlanta in the heart of the city. Now she is overseeing a team of conference chairs for the 2015 gathering, including:
- Laser Materials Processing Conference: Christoph Leyens, Fraunhofer IWS
- Laser Microprocessing Conference: Michelle Stock, mlstock consulting
- Nanomanufacturing Conference: Yongfeng Lu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Business Forum & Panel Discussion: Klaus Loeffler, TRUMPF, and Bo Gu, BOS Photonics
“With over 200 presentations and posters on the latest in laser research, strengthened by the peer-review process introduced last year, ICALEO will provide another outstanding opportunity to learn about advances in laser material processing,” Pflueger notes in her welcome message for the ICALEO advance program (available online at www.icaleo.org). Continue reading