8:45 – 9:00 | Opening

9:00 – 10:30 | Laser Ablation in Liquids (Chair N. Bulgakova)

9:00 – 9:30 | Invited talk
Interplay between plasma luminescence and hydrodynamic effects in underwater LIBS at 0.1 – 50 MPa ambient pressure
Presenter: Alfred Vogel (University of Lübeck, Institute of Biomedical Optics, Lübeck, Germany)

9:30 – 9:50
Laser induced cavitation bubble interaction with bubbles attached to the surface
Presenter: Vid Agrež (Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute for Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

9:50 – 10:10
Comparison between Laser Induced Plasmas in gas and in liquid
Presenter: Alessandro De Giacomo (University of Bari, Italy)

10:10 – 10:30
Generation of defect-rich nanoparticles by short pulse laser ablation and processing in liquid
Presenter: Leonid V. Zhigilei (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)

10:30 – 11:00 | Break

11:00 – 12:30 | Pulsed Laser Ablation (Chair D. Geohegan)

11:00 - 11:30 | Invited talk
Pulsed Laser Deposition: Possible Problems for the Deposition of Energy Materials
Presenter: Thomas Lippert (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, Villigen PSI, Switzerland, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan and Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

11:30 - 11:50
HfNbTaTiZr high-entropy thin films: from alloys to oxides for improved photocatalytic performance
Presenter: Petr Hruška (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)

11:50 - 12:10
Advancements in the growth of Boron based films using ns and fs pulsed laser deposition
Presenter: David Dellasega (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

12:10 - 12:30
Exploring advanced control in high-entropy coatings by tailoring gas phase process during deposition
Presenter: Jan Lancok (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)

12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 | Laser excitation (Chair M. Garcia)

14:30 - 15:00 | Invited talk
Photoionization effects under ultrashort laser processing of materials: Theory vs experiment
Presenter: Nadezhda M. Bulgakova (FZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)

15:00 - 15:20
Femtosecond laser excitation of dielectric materials: Understanding thin-film ablation and looking for THz emission
Presenter: Peter Balling (Aarhus University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus, Denmark)

15:20 - 15:40
Photo-induced ultrafast melting in plasmonic nanoparticles observed via single-pulse time-resolved imaging using XFEL
Presenter: Eunyoung Park (Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang 37673, Korea)

15:40 - 16:00
Pump–probe imaging of GHz surface waves for Young’s modulus measurement
Presenter: Ramon Auer (Munich University of Applied Sciences HM, Bavaria, Germany)

16:00 - 16:30 | Break

16:30 – 18:00 | Ultrafast laser excitation (Chair P. Balling)

16:30 - 17:00 | Invited talk
Deciphering Carrier Dynamics in Polycarbonate Following Excitation with Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Presenter: George D. Tsibidis (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece)

17:00 - 17:20
Two Ways of Arriving at the Same Result: carrier lifetime of a GeSn alloy
Presenter: Martin Aagaard (1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark)

17:20 - 17:40
Experimental and numerical study of ultrashort pulse laser-induced stress waves from picoseconds to nanoseconds
Presenter: Kenta Tokumi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

17:40 - 18:00
Unified theoretical dscription for thermal and nontermal laser induced ultrafast structural modifications in materials
Presenter: Martin E. Garcia (University of Kassel, Theoretical Physics II Department, Kassel, Germany)

18:00 – 20:00 | Poster session (Chairs M. Dell'Aglio, J. Herman,  M. Martino)

The poster size is A0 (70x100 cm). All the necessary materials for posting will be available on site.

1. Effect of metallic nanoparticles size on nanoparticle enhanced Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NELIBS)
Presenter: Lucia Sansaro

2. Tuning emission properties of laser-produced plasmas using beam shaping techniques
Presenter: Girum A. Beyene (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic)

3. Morphology and regularity of high-spatial frequency laser-induced periodic surface structures (HSFL) on titanium materials
Presenter: Heike Voss (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany)

4. ReguΛarity – An open-source software for the quantification of the regularity of periodic surface structures
Presenter: Eric Rahner (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Otto-Schott-Institute of Materials Research (OSIM), Jena, Germany)

5. Bacterial adhesion on ultrashort pulse laser processed surfaces ― more than size matters!
Presenter: Karin Schwibbert (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany)

6. Formation of high-spatial frequency LIPSS on metals probed by fs-time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering
Presenter: Dominik Kaczmarek (Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany)

7. Generation and stabilization of crystal defects in short pulse laser processing of copper
Presenter: Chaobo Chen (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)

8. AgNFs/2D hybrid nanomaterials as multi-wavelength SERS active platforms for sensing applications
Presenter: Luisa D’Urso (Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Italy)

9. Laser synthesis of bimetallic nanoparticles by short and ultrashort lasers
Presenter: Angela De Bonis (Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate, Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy)

10. Effects of pulse duration on laser nanostructuring of crystalline copper
Presenter: Paulius Gečys (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), Vilnius, Lithuania)

11. Raster-scanned formation of vertically grown femtosecond laser-induced columnar structures on Al
Presenter: Taek Yong Hwang (Digital Manufacturing Division, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, (KITECH), Bucheon, South Korea)

12. Anomalous increase in the spectral reflectance of columnar surface structures on Al with femtosecond laser irradiation
Presenter: Taek Yong Hwang (Digital Manufacturing Division, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Bucheon, South Korea)

13. Development of visible light responsive photocatalytic by titanium dioxide with highly oriented gold nanoislands
Presenter: Kei Katayama (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan)

14. Regulation of microbial proliferation via LIPSS prepared by GHz burst mode femtosecond laser
Presenter: Shota Kawabata (RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Saitama, Japan and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan)

15. Importance of second laser pulse duration in transient and selective laser processing
Presenter: Sota Kiriake (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

16. Determining the Activation Energy of Sn-Ti Solid Phase Reaction Using Femtosecond Laser
Presenter: Lebogang Kotsedi (NRF-iThemba LABS, Materials Research Department, Old Faure Road, Eesteriver, Cape Town, South Africa)

17. Si solar cells with nanodot structures formed by Nd:YAG laser pulses at 266 nm
Presenter: Mitsuhiro Kusaba (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka, Japan)

18. Spot Size Control in Shaping Film Thickness Distribution: Nanosecond vs. Femtosecond Laser Ablation
Presenter: Antonella Lorusso (Department of Mathematics and Physics “E. De Giorgi”, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)

19. Plasmon resonance wavelength modification in xerogels co-doped with Fe3O4 /Au core-shell nanoparticles and Ag ions
Presenter: Ryoki Maeno (Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan)

20. Ferrimagnetic high magnetization of metastable ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles dispersed in xerogels induced by femtosecond laser irradiation
Presenter: T. Nagai (Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu Japan)

21. From the surface into the bulk: 3D fs-laser treatments of transparent materials
Presenter: S. Orlando (CNR-ISM, FemtoLAB, U.O.S. Tito Scalo, Italy)

22. SERS detection of chemical contaminants in food and drinking water based on Au decorated, laser induced periodic surface structures elaborated in air and vacuum
Presenter: Achu Purushothaman (Dipartimento di Fisica Ettore Pancini, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy)

23. VUV photon induced photochemical modification of ammonia nitrogen for improvement of fertilizer efficiency
Presenter: Yuji Sato (Joining and Welding Research Institute, The University of Osaka, Japan)

24. Directly observing ultrafast melting kinetics induced by femtosecond laser pulses with extreme lights
Presenter: Changyong Song (Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea and Center for Ultrafast Science on Quantum Matter, Max Planck POSTECH Korea Research Initiative, Pohang, Korea)

25. Development of plasmonic silver nanostructures fabricated by pulsed laser deposition
Presenter: Shuto Tabata (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Japan)

26. Nanostructure and superhydrophobicity of thin films prepared ablating titanium in mixed argon/nitrogen atmospheres
Presenter: Sebastiano Trusso (IPCF-CNR, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Messina, Italy)

27. Tailoring the properties of the electromagnetic modes excited by Mid-IR fs pulses at the interface between Si and SiO2 coatings by adjusting the thickness of the dielectric material
Presenter: George D. Tsibidis (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Crete, Greece)

28. Charge separation effects in laser-induced plasma plumes: Hybrid 𝓵 DSMC-CRM-PIC simulations
Presenter: Alexey N. Volkov (Department of Mechanical Engineering. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA)

29. Molecular Dynamics Study of Cluster Emission, Condensation, and Impact at a Liquid Copper Surface under Conditions of Laser-Induced Vaporization
Presenter: Alexey N. Volkov (Department of Mechanical Engineering. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA)

30. Thermal Loss Reduction in Powertrain Housings by Laser-Induced Oleophobic Surface Textures
Presenter: Masaki Yamaguchi (Shinshu University, Graduate School of Medicine, Science & Technology, Nagano, Japan)

31. Development of Deep Learning Model for Laser Micropatterning Using Spatial Data of Periodic Structures
Presenter: Masaki Yamaguchi (Shinshu University, Graduate School of Medicine, Science & Technology, Nagano, Japan)

32. Tuning Gold Nanoparticle Size via Re-Irradiation of Bromide-Induced Chains
Presenter: Giuseppe Compagnini (University of Catania)

33. FDTD Investigation of Gap-Dependent LSPR in Ag Nanoparticles for Enhanced LIBS Sensitivity
Presenter: Marcello Condorelli (Department of Chemical science, University of Study of Catania)

34. Nanoparticles via Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquid (PLAL) and their application to Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for signal amplification: a ruby case study
Presenter: Filippo Leone

35. LIBS Analysis of Oils: A Spin-Coating Approach for High Sensitivity and Matrix Effect Suppression
Presenter: Milica Vinić