We are pleased to announce that partial travel support is available for students and postdoctoral researchers interested in attending and presenting at our upcoming meeting. Full travel support will be provided to successful undergraduate applicants. The travel grant will include the cost of registration and accommodations from July 15-19, 2024 (4 nights). If awarded, eligibility is contingent on giving an oral or poster presentation during the meeting. Applications are submitted through the same form as abstract submission.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Submit an abstract and application for the student/postdoc travel grant using the link below before May 6, 2024 May 17, 2024 at 5 PM Pacific Daylight Time.
   
   
2. Ask your advisor/supervisor to e-mail a brief justification and individual recommendation for support to: Prof. Howard Milchberg (milch@umd.edu) and Dr. Chandra Breanne Curry (ccurry@slac.stanford.edu) before May 13, 2024 May 24, 2024.

PRESENTER AND CO-AUTHORS

The first author serves as the primary presenting author and is expected to participate in the in-person meeting. Each first author may submit one oral abstract and one poster presentation. All co-authors should receive a copy of the abstract beforehand and be given the chance to offer feedback.

PRESENTATION TYPES

• Contributed Oral (10 min + 2 min questions)
• Poster Presentation

Please indicate your preferred presentation type when submitting your abstract. The Program Committee will assign abstracts to presentation types and sessions based on scientific merit, broader impacts, and topic. Our mission is to foster community cohesion and strive to provide visibility opportunities for students and early-career researchers; therefore, we will continue with the format without parallel sessions. This means that many submissions will be assigned to our extensive poster session. Last year, the poster session was a highlight of our meeting, featuring over 110 posters and over 10 exhibitors. Note that we strongly encourage participation in our poster session by attendees at all career levels.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

Abstracts on any topic relevant to the broad research areas of LaserNetUS will be considered. At submission, authors will indicate whether the presentation is a research product or an awarded LaserNetUS experiment. Inline with our mission to develop the workforce of the future, the organizing committee will consider the career level of the presenting author when assigning the presentation type.

We particularly encourage posters on technical capabilities, diagnostic and detector development, characterization, and calibration, as well as new experimental or analytical techniques.

FORMATTING GUIDELINES 

Abstracts should adhere to the following formatting guidelines:

• Submit in PDF format using our template
  
  
• Less than 1300 characters (about 250 words)
  
  
• Select keywords from the APS Physics PhySH - Physics Subject Headings
  
  
• Final abstract should be contained within ONE PAGE
  

Here are some helpful Tips for Writing a Title and Abstract from the American Physical Society.

Abstracts should be submitted using the button below which will redirect to a Stanford-hosted SmartSheet form.