The North American Workshop on Laser Ablation (NAWLA) will be held June 5-9, 2023 in McKenna Hall Conference Center at the University of Notre Dame.

NAWLA is a biennial meeting held in odd years with the mission to facilitate laser ablation knowledge transfer and promote community among North American laser ablation users. The workshop format includes invited plenary oral presentations, contributed oral and poster presentations, moderated discussions, and group workshop activities. Plenary presentations review the state-of-the-art on particular topics, identify key issues in the topic that might yield the most useful research results for the future, and provide a framework for discussions at the workshop. Workshop activities are intended to facilitate knowledge transfer among diverse users with a variety of analytical experience.

Topical areas covered in the workshop include:

Foundations & Fundamentals

• Laser-matter interaction
• Standardization
• Isotope ratio analysis
• Particle formation & transport phenomena

Instrumentation

• New developments
• Data processing
• Imaging

Applications

• Earth Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• Material Sciences​
• ​Forensics
• Industrial

Registration

Registration fees- March 1 - May 19, 2023:

• Professional/regular: $399
• Student: $299

Onsite registration fee: $449

For complete program details and to register, please visit the workshop website at: https://nawla2023.nd.edu/.

Questions?

Please contact Antonio Simonetti, Conference Chair and associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, at 574-631-6710 or Antonio.Simonetti.3@nd.edu.