XV International conference on pulsed lasers and laser applications – AMPL-2021

September 12-17, 2021, Tomsk

Third Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

Arrangements for the XV International Conference on Pulsed Lasers and Laser Applications AMPL-2021 (Atomic and Molecular Pulsed Lasers) are going on. The AMPL Conference held in Tomsk biennially is the greatest scientific forum on this subject in the Commonwealth of Independent States. This year the XV AMPL Conference will last from the 12th to the 17th of September 2021.We invite You to visit Tomsk and speak at the Conference. The Preliminary Program is available on the Conference website. The time indicated in the Program corresponds to the Universal Coordinated Time - UTC (MSK is UTC+3, TSK is UTC+7)

Reports
Online presentations can be duplicated in Russian and contain audio accompaniment if necessary. The PowerPoint tools allow to overlay audio information on presentation slides. Then, it can be converted to PDF format. Presentations with materials of the reports must be uploaded to the Conference website by September 1. For preparing presentations, please, see Instructions.
Please download presentations, posters, and slides in PDF format only. These Conference materials will be in open access and can be read and downloaded from the Conference website by third parties. Please use PPT or PPTX format for presenting in-person oral reports.
Standard software (MS Office XP) and a multimedia projector are provided for oral reports. For the in-person presentation of the poster report, the Authors are provided with a stand with an area of 1 m2 (one sheet of A1 format). Placing a poster presentation on A4 sheets is unacceptable.
For nonresident and foreign Participants presenting poster presentations, the Organizing Committee will organize printing of posters at the request of the Authors. If it nessesary, please, inform the Organizing Committee via e-mail. If you need additional hardware or software, please, inform the Organizing Committee in advance. We will be glad to help you.


Conference proceedings
There is an opportunity to publish articles on the materials presented at the Conference in the special issue of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics journal and the Proceedings of SPIE. For publishing in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics journal, the manuscript has to be sent to the Organizing Committee via email. For this goal, it is necessary to prepare manuscripts in accordance with the rules of these editions and the Conference calendar. For publishing in the Proceedings of SPIE, the manuscript has to be uploaded via a direct link located in the Extra Info Section on the Conference website. Publication in the Proceedings of SPIE is paid and amounts to 6,000 rubles per article.


Registration fee payment
To pay the registration fee for participation in the Conference and publication in the Proceedings of SPIE, please, follow the link Online registration, acceptance of reports and payment for participation. If you encounter difficulties in the payment process, please, contact the Organizing Committee.


Accommodation
The closest hotels to the Conference venue are Rubin and Akademia. Please, book beforehand.


Route
In connection with the renovation work at the Tomsk airport, flights will depart only on Sundays (September 12 and 19). You can choose and purchase tickets on the websites of airlines: Aeroflot, Ural Airlines, S7 Airlines, Pobeda.
The nearest airport (outside Tomsk) is located in Novosibirsk. We recommend you decide on the route and tickets in advance.
If you have purchased tickets, please inform the Organizing Committee about the dates and flight number.


Access to the Institute
The first entrance to the Institute will be carried out on the basis of passport data. The following information has to be provided by foreign Participants to the Organizing Committee by September 1: a scan of the main page of the passport (citizenship, passport number, date of issue, and expiration date), residence address, and indicate the Organization that the Participant represents.


Countering the Spread of COVID-19
A mask is a required condition for being at the Institute. Automatic hand sanitizers are installed at the entrance and near the halls of the Institute.  The halls are equipped with settings for air disinfection. Please, wear a mask, use sanitizer for hands and devices, keep your distance when you are at the Institute. Guests of the Institute will need one of the following documents to enter the Institute for the first time to take part in the mass event:
  • – a certificate of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, obtained at least two weeks, but not earlier than 12 months before the start of the Conference;
  • – a certificate of the passed COVID-19, obtained at least two weeks, but not earlier than 6 months before the start of the Conference;
  • – a certificate of a negative PCR test for the SARS-CoV-2, obtained no earlier than 3 days before the start of the Conference.
To facilitate the procedure for entering the Institute, if you have one of the required certificates, it is recommended to send respective QR codes to the Organizing Committee.
Please, note that if the epidemiological situation worsens, the requirements may be tightened. In this case, the Organizing Committee will inform the Participants within 24 hours from the moment of making the appropriate decision.

We kindly ask you to add the registration or program number of the report in the "Subject" field for all requests to the Organizing Committee via e-mail.
Looking forward to seeing you in Tomsk among the participants of the AMPL-2021 Conference!