Greetings!  Please remember that the ABSTRACT DEADLINE  for COLA'97 - The
Fourth International Conference on Laser Ablation - is  APRIL
15, 1997.  The housing forms are being printed, and will be sent to you
soon (they are due back on MAY 15, 1997).

Abstracts should arrive by mail to R. Russo at the address below on or
before April 15, 1997.

Richard E. Russo
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MS 70-193A
Berkeley, CA 94720

Instructions for the format of the abstracts are on the back of the print
brochure, and are also available on the website
(http://www.ornl.gov/~cola).   They are summarized below:


HOW TO PREPARE AN ABSTRACT FOR COLA'97 - THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON LASER ABLATION

Abstracts should be prepared on a single page (8.5" x 11") of paper with 1"
margins all around. All text (10 to 12-point type) and figures (if any)
should fit within these margins. Title should be in all-caps or bold, and
centered. Names, affiliations, mailing and E-mail addresses should follow
(centered) with the presenting author underlined.   The body should be
single-spaced with a blank line between paragraphs (left or
full-justified). New paragraphs should be indented. The abstracts should be
mailed to R. Russo at the above address and should arrive on or before
APRIL 15, 1997.

Please send one 'clean' copy for direct inclusion into our abstract book.
One additional copy should be marked with your preference of "POSTER" or
"ORAL" presentation for our sorting procedure.  On this copy, please
indicate the E-mail address to which notification should be made as to the
results of the acceptance and poster/oral decisions.  Also, please indicate
which TOPIC AREA (see below) is most appropriate for your paper. The
abstracts are meant to provide a good preview of the work to be presented
at the conference, while the original results will be published in the
conference Proceedings.

TOPIC AREAS

Desorption Mechanisms & Laser Surface Interactions
Mechanisms & Diagnostics of Pulsed Laser Deposition
Modeling and Computer Simulation of Laser-Induced Desorption and Ablation
Laser Plasma and Gas Dynamic Effects
Analytical Spectroscopy Based on Laser Ablation
Biomedical Ablation: Mechanisms and Applications (Corneal, Tissue, Dental)
MALDI (Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization)
X-Ray Generation and Novel Photon Sources using Laser Plasmas
Film Synthesis by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD): New and
Artificially-Structured Materials
Cluster and Nanoparticle Formation and Deposition
Laser-Induced Surface Modification
Laser Etching and Cleaning
Lithography and Micromachining
High-Power Laser Cutting
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from the co-chairs of COLA'97
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Dr. David B. Geohegan  <[log in to unmask]>
MS-6056,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6056
Phone: 423-576-5097   FAX: 423-576-3676

Dr. Richard E. Russo  <[log in to unmask]>
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MS 70-193A
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510-486-4258   FAX: 510-486-7303

Prof. Richard F. Haglund, Jr.  <[log in to unmask]>
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Phone: 615-322-2828   FAX: 615-343-7263

Prof. Kouichi Murakami  <[log in to unmask]>
Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba Academic City
Ibaraki 305, Japan
Phone: 81 298 53 5272   FAX: 81 298 55 7440
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see you in Monterey!
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