Chairs

General chair

Co-chairs

Honorary Chair

Organized by:

Committees

International Advisory Committee

Chairperson

Koji Sugioka (RIKEN, JAPAN)

Members

Alan Arai (IMRA America, Inc., USA)
Ralf Eckhard Beyer (Fraunhofer IWS, Germany)
Chung-Wei Cheng (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)
Remy Fabbro (CLFA-Cooperation Laser Franco-Allemande, France)
Burkhard Fechner (Coherent GmbH, Germany)
Costas Fotakis (F.O.R.T.H.-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece)
Kenshi Fukumitsu (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan)
Costas Grigoropoulos (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Takashi Ishide (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd ., Japan)
Takahisa Jitsuno (Osaka University, Japan)
Teruyoshi Kadoya (Precitec, Japan)
Jeong-Han Kim (KITECH-Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, South Korea)
Akikazu Kitagawa (Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Japan)
Vitali Konov (GPI- General Physics Institute, Russia)
Dietmar Kracht (LZH- Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany)
Masao Kubo (Panasonic Electric Works, Ltd ., Japan)
Sylvain Lazare (Universite de Bordeaux 1, France)
Jyoti Mazumder (The University of Michigan, USA)
Kiyokazu Mori (NISSAN, Japan)
Sumio Nakahara (Kansai University, Japan)
Hitoshi Nishimura (Panasonic Welding Systems Co ., Ltd ., Japan)
Tatsuo Okada (Kyushu University, Japan)
Moriaki Ono （JFE Techno-Research Corporation, Japan）
Rajesh S. Patel (Spectra Physics, USA)
Reinhart Poprawe (Fraunhofer ILT, Germany)
Stan Ream (EWI, USA)
Shozui Takeno (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
Frank Vollertsen (BIAS- Bremer Institut fuer angewandte Strahltechnik, Germany)
Ken Watkins (University of Liverpool, UK)
Xianfan Xu (Purdue University, USA)
Kozo Yasuda (Konan University, Japan)

LPM2013 Program Committee

Chairperson

Hiroyuki Niino (AIST-National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan)

Members

Craig B. Arnold (Princeton University, USA)
Ya Cheng (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China)
Sung-Hak Cho (Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, South Korea)
Friedrich H. Dausinger (University of Stuttgart, Institut fur Strahlwerkzeuge, IFSW, Germany)
Jan J. Dubowski (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Arnold Gillner (Fraunhofer ILT, Germany)
Henry Helvajian (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
Guido Hennig (Daetwyler Graphics AG, Switzerland)
Peter R. Herman (University of Toronto, Canada)
Minghui Hong (Data Storage Institute, Singapore)
Jurgen Ihlemann (Laser Laboratory Goettingen, Germany)
Yoshiro Ito (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Saulius Juodkazis (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Tetsuya Makimura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shoji Maruo (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Scott A. Mathews (The Catholic University of America, USA)
Michel Meunier (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
Yoshiki Nakata (Osaka University, Japan)
Etsuji Ohmura (Osaka University, Japan)
Yasuhiro Okamoto (Okayama University, Japan)
Masayuki Okoshi (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Toshihiko Ooie (METI, AIST, Japan)
Andreas Ostendorf (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Alberto Pique (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Juergen Reif (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
Pere Serra (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Javier Solis (Instituto de Optica, Spain)
Jurgen Stampfl (TU Wien (University of Vienna), Austria)
Razvan Stoian (Universite Jean Monnet, France)
Stelios Tzortzakis (F.O.R.T.H.-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece)
Vadim P. Veiko (St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Russia)
Bert Huis in 't Veld (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Kunihiko Washio (Paradigm Laser Research Ltd., Japan)
Wataru Watanabe (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

HPL2013 Program Committee

Chairperson

Seiji Katayama (Osaka University, JWRI, Japan)

Members

Akio Hirose (Osaka University, Japan)
Berndt Brenner (Fraunhofer Institute Material and Beam Technology, Germany)
Francis Briand (AIR LIQUIDE / CTAS, France)
Alexander Kaplan (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden)
Aravinda Kar (University of Central Florida, USA)
Jong Do Kim (Korea Maritime University, South Korea)
Veli P. Kujanpaa (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Muneharu Kutsuna (ALTREC Co., Ltd., Japan)
Kazuhisa Mikame (Maeda Industry Co.,Ltd., Japan)
Wang Jingbo (Panasonic Welding Systems Co ., Ltd., Japan)
Yixiong Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Hiroto Yamaoka (IHI Corporation, Japan)
Masanori Yasuyama (Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Japan)

Steering Committee

Chairperson

Yoshiro Ito (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)

Members

Yasutaka Hanada (Hirosaki University, Japan)
Yoshio Hayasaki (Utsunomiya University, Japan)
Hitoshi Hiraga (Tsubame Sanjo Regional Industries Promotion Center, Japan)
Yoichiro Hosokawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Masahito Katto (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
Yousuke Kawahito (Osaka University, Japan)
Tetsuya Makimura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Shigeki Matsuo (The University of Tokushima, Japan)
Yukio Miyashita (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Masami Mizutani (Osaka University, Japan)
Yasuaki Naito (Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Japan)
Susumu Nakamura (Nagaoka College of Technology, Japan)
Yoshiki Nakata (Osaka University, Japan)
Aiko Narazaki (AIST, Japan)
Hiroaki Nishiyama (Yamagata University, Japan)
Etsuji Ohmura (Osaka University, Japan)
Yasuhiro Okamoto (Okayama University, Japan)
Masayuki Okoshi (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Toshihiko Ooie　(AIST, Japan)
Yasuyuki Ozeki (Osaka University, Japan)
Rie Tanabe (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Motomichi Yamamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Yosuke Yamazaki (Osaka University, Japan)