8th IAPLE Annual Conference & AGM

8th IAPLE Conference – Program Overview

Conference Venue: Conference Room 404, East Building, Ningbo Academician Center, Dongqian Lake, Taogong Road, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China,
tel: 0574-86267125

Conference Accommodation: Park Hyatt Ningbo Hotel, No.188 Dayan Road,
Dongqianhu Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, China

Dates: May 28-29, 2024


Day 1 – 28 May 2024, Conference Room of Ningbo Academician Center

12:00 – 13:30: Lunch at MiniYu Restaurant

Plenary Session 1 – Chair: Professor Minlin Zhong, Tsinghua University, China

15:00 – 15:40: Plenary Keynote Presentation 1: “Laser Fabrication of Micro-nano Structured Surfaces for Wettability Control of Liquid Metal”, presented by Professor Minlin Zhong, Tsinghua University, China, Former President of the Laser Institute of America (LIA)

15:40 – 16:20: Plenary Keynote Presentation 2: “New Microresonator Sensors Produced by Two-Photon Polymerization”, presented by Professor Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, Chair of the Applied Laser Technology Research Center

16:20 – 17:00: Plenary Keynote Presentation 3: “Ultrafast Laser Precision Manufacturing: from Fundamental Research to Industrial Applications”,presented by Professor Hongbo Sun, Tsinghua University, China, Chair of State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments

17:00 – 17:40: Plenary Keynote Presentation 4: “Progresses of laser Performances Enabling Tailored and Affordable Applications”, presented by Dr. Keming Du, Chairman and CEO of EdgeWave GmbH, Germany

18:00 – 19:30: Dinner at Wonderland Hotel, Ningbo International Conference Center

20:00 – 21:30: IAPLE General Annual Meeting


Day 2 – 29 May 2024 , Conference Room of the Ningbo Academician Center

12:00 – 13:30: Lunch at Qianhu Hotel

Plenary Session 2 – Chair: Professor Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

15:00 – 15:40: Plenary Keynote Presentation 5: “Array based High Throughput Additive Manufacturing of Metals“, presented by Professor William O’Neill, University of Cambridge, UK, Director of the Industrial Photonics Centre at the University of Cambridge

15:40 – 16:20: Plenary Keynote Presentation 6: “Laser Anticorrosion Processing of Metals”, presented by Professor Yongfeng Lu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

16:20 – 17:00: Plenary Keynote Presentation 7: “Laser Synthesis of Single Atom and Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts”, presented by Professor Zhu Liu, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, China

17:00 – 17:40: Plenary Keynote Presentation 8: “Laser Additive Manufacturing of Multiple Materials and Functionally Graded Material Domponents”, presented by Professor Lin Li, The University of Manchester, UK, Former IAPLE President

18:00 – 19:30: Farewell Dinner at Hilton Ningbo Dongqian Lake Hotel