Christoph Mittelstädt from BIAS, Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik GmbH, said ICALEO is “one of the best technical conferences I attend all year!”
The Vendor Reception & Tabletop Display hosted a pavilion full of sponsors and vendors where Ken Dzurko, General Manager of SPI Lasers, said “LIA does a great job creating a comfortable, relaxed mood right for exchanging ideas at this one-of-a-kind event that’s really the world’s premier gathering of scientists interested in laser applications.”
Nikolas von Freyhold, Industrial Laser Product Manager from ICALEO sponsor JENOPTIK appreciates the fact that he can reach people who use lasers in both industry and academia at ICALEO. “This is a good place to spread the word about our application lab and interest in demonstrating what our newest femtosecond lasers can do,” he says.
Neil Ball, President of Directed Light, Inc. and newly-honored LIA Fellow, calls ICALEO “bar none, the best networking opportunity and the best opportunity to look forward and see what applications are on the horizon. As a laser professional and exhibitor, there is only one event on my calendar that is a must exhibit every year, and that would be ICALEO. Nowhere on the planet do you have the opportunity to network with the industries’ elite decisions makers.”
LIA Awards Highlights of the year mentioned at the LIA Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon included launching the industry’s first web- based Laser Safety Hazard Analysis system – The EVALUATOR, many education and outreach activities, and reducing student membership rates by 50 percent.
Executive Director Peter Baker was honored as the first recipient of the new LIA Leadership Award, and he received a standing ovation after his look back over more than two decades at the LIA and entertaining talk about life and leadership lessons. Retiring next April, Baker publicized the job opening and encouraged people to apply for Executive Director of the LIA, saying “it is a great job and you couldn’t wish for better bosses. People crave a job that is meaningful, and at LIA we’re saving eyesight, preventing skin damage, and helping create laser technologies, products and services that make the world a better place.”
During the luncheon, the Arthur L. Schawlow Award was presented to Prof. Yongfeng Lu. This is LIA’s highest achievement award, created to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions in laser applications. Named after the Nobel Laureate and founder of LIA, it has been presented since 1982. The 2016 winner, Yongfeng Lu, an LIA Board Member, Past President, Treasurer, Fellow, Lott Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with hundreds of published papers, research projects and products, presented
the Honored Speaker Address, A Small World With Lasers. He took the audience on a journey through the past to witness his 25 years of laser processing and material characterization experience, and to all the countries where his work occurred, summarizing each with a single phrase.
LIA also honored Silke Pflueger and Neil Ball, elevating them to the highest level of membership as LIA Fellows.
By a unanimous decision, the first place ICALEO Poster Award went to Kohei Asano and his colleagues from Osaka University, the Industrial Research Institute of Ishikawa, and Yamazaki Mazak Corporation in Japan for their poster Copper Layer Formation Produced with 100 W Blue Direct Diode Laser System (P110).
The First Place Student Paper Award winner was Christian Hagenlocher from IFSW in Stuttgart, Germany, for his paper Space and Time Resolved Determination of Thermomechanical Deformation Adjacent to the Solidification Zone during Hot Crack Formation in Laser Welding (1202).
The closing plenary session highlighted lasers used in emerging areas with talks on paint stripping, the dairy industry, and a report from Magnus Bengtsson from Coherent, Inc. about the latest trends in the major electronics component market segments.
ICALEO 2016 proceedings are now available for sale online at
www.lia.org/store. Visit
www.icaleo.org for more information on ICAELO 2017, which will be held Oct. 22-26 in Atlanta, GA.
Debbie Sniderman is CEO of VI Ventures, an engineering consulting company.
ICALEO 2016 STUDENT PAPER AWARD WINNERS 1ST
PLACE
Space and Time Resolved Determination of Thermomechanical Deformation Adjacent to the Solidification Zone during Hot Crack Formation in Laser Welding (1202) Christian Hagenlocher, IFSW, Stuttgart, Germany
2ND PLACE
Laser Direct Writing of Multifunctional Micro/nano Devices using Carbon Nanotube-polymer Composites (N210) Ying Liu, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, USA
3RD PLACE
Temperature Feedback Control of Laser Cladding using High Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging (1305) Wim Devesse, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
ICALEO 2016 POSTER AWARD WINNERS 1ST
PLACE
Copper Layer Formation Produced with 100 W Blue Direct Diode Laser System (P110) Kohei Asano, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
2ND PLACE
Development of Visible Ns-pulse Laser in a Pr-doped Double-clad Structured Waterproof Fluoride Glass Fiber using Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirror (P141) Shota Kajikawa, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
3RD PLACE
Novel Process for Butt-joined Plastic- metal Hybrid Compounds (P113) Dennis Arntz, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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