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selective laser melting along with assurance protocols. Te following session will feature Warwick


Downing, chief executive of Rapid Advanced Manufacturing, with thoughts on how to grow the metal AM industry. Downing established Rapid Advanced


Manufacturing (RAM3D) in 2013 with a group of like-minded shareholders to grow the commercial opportunities created by the growth of the metal 3D printing sector. In the final session, Mohsen Seifi from the


American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International, will discuss the standardisation of AM. Seifi is the director of


Global Additive Manufacturing programmes at ASTM International. Previously, he was a doctoral researcher in the department of materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Aſter the final session, there will be a reception


on the show floor in conjunction with LME at 4pm. Since LAM attendees are welcome to participate fully in LME, there are also many more talks, tutorials and classes available. LME 2018 will take place on 28-29 March at


the Schaumburg Convention Centre. Keynote addresses will be made by Dr Geoff Shannon, from Amada Miyachi, discussing lasers for medical device manufacturing, and Henrikki


Pantsar, from Trumpf, who will speak about lasers in heavy manufacturing. Tere will also be tutorials on current trends in laser micromachining, and laser welding techniques and applications. Te show will have an ask-the-experts booth, as well as a programme of laser 101 talks providing basic information on many aspects of laser technology. Te topics will cover laser sources, beam delivery systems, laser safety, laser marking, laser cleaning, laser cutting, laser welding, laser cladding and optics.l


For more information and to register for either event, visit www.lia.org/lam and www.laserevent.org.


News from ICALEO 2017 By Jim Naugle, marketing director at LIA


Hotel in October. Te Arthur L Schawlow Award – named aſter 1981 Nobel Prize Laureate Arthur Schawlow and founding father of LIA – was bestowed upon Dr Paul Seiler. At the ceremony, which Seiler was unable to attend, Rüdiger Brockmann, from Trumpf, in Germany, stepped in to present his work, recognising Seiler as the father of industrial solid state lasers in Germany, and accrediting him with having a significant impact on the growth of users including Philips and Osram. ‘Paul combined his mechanics and


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engineering expertise with his passion for lasers to pioneer laser systems for diamond die drilling, fine welding of watch flat spiral springs, welding cathode components for television and invention of the laser light cable,’ Brockmann said. Now called fibre optics, Seiler initiated and


drove rapid expansion of solid-state lasers into high volume manufacturing applications. Dr Seiler joins the world-renowned list of recipients, including Arthur Schawlow, Arthur Guenther and Teodor Hänsch. New to the awards programme was the Peter


M Baker Leadership Award, established in 2016. Te award is given annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in an organisation or a company that has significantly benefited the world laser community or has led to major global impacts in the advancement of laser


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From left: LIA president Paul Denney, Professor Dr Reinhart Poprawe, LIA past president Lin Li and LIA’s executive director Nat Quick


science, technology, engineering or applications. Te recipient was Professor Dr Reinhart


Poprawe, director of the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, Germany, who was recognised for his outstanding leadership in the international laser community. ‘Tere is no question that Professor Poprawe


richly deserves this award. In our world of lasers, he is a leader on the grand scale, technical, organisational, political and social,’ Baker said. ‘He is a fine gentleman, courteous, thoughtful, generous and funny. I consider it an honour to be his friend.’ Clearly, Professor Poprawe was surprised at


being chosen to receive this prestigious award. In his remarks at the ceremony, he described the


opportunities and challenges of leadership in the 21st century for all organisations. ‘Tere are so many ingredients for a successful


organisation: vision, mission, research and product portfolios, roadmaps, SWOT-analysis and education of the employees.’ Poprawe said. Industry or even better societal use and implementation of our research results is what we do everything for, especially the development of the demanding competencies in the very fundamentals of laser technology and application physics. Te award is from one of the most important laser communities in the world. It is a great honour to receive this award as the first recipient aſter the original, Mr Peter Baker himself.’l


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wo awards were presented during the 36th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO), which was held at the Sheraton Atlanta


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