Dear colleague

The third edition of the Ultrafast Science and Technology Spain meeting (USTS 2019) will take place at IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, from 6 to 8 November 2019 (http://www.nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/workshops/usts-2019-meeting). The meeting is promoted by the Grupo Especializado de Láseres Ultrarrápidos (GELUR) of the Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF) and follows the two previous meetings organized in Madrid and Salamanca. The main goal of the meeting is to gather and promote the Spanish ultrafast laser community to discuss and disseminate the most recent advances, facilitating synergies among different groups. Senior scientists, postdocs and students working in areas related to ultrafast laser science are invited to participate.

The scope of USTS 2019 is broad and multidisciplinary, covering different topics such as ultrafast laser development, femtosecond laser spectroscopy and microscopy, nonlinear optical phenomena, attosecond science, ultrafast synchrotron and XFEL studies, and in general any ultrafast study related to biology, chemistry and condensed matter. The program will include plenary talks, invited talks and poster presentations. Plenary speakers and half of the invited speakers have already been selected by the scientific committee. These are:

Plenary speakers:

Ursula Keller (ETH Zurich)

Franck Lépine (Université de Lyon) 

Mauro Nisoli (Politecnico di Milano) 

Invited speakers:

Jens Biegert (ICFO)

Johannes Feist (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Maria Teresa Flores (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

Wojciech Gawelda (European XFEL)

Rosario Gonzalez-Férez (Universidad de Granada)

Carlos Hernández (Universidad de Salamanca)

Asier Longarte (Universidad de País Vasco)

Larry Luer (IMDEA Nanoscience)

Cruz Méndez (Centro de Láseres Pulsados)

Dooshaye Moonshiram (IMDEA Nanoscience)

Rebeca de Nalda (CSIC-IQFR)

Elisabet Romero (ICIQ)

The remaining invited speakers will be chosen among the submitted abstracts. We encourage you to submit your best work to ensure a high-level scientific meeting with a large participation of our community. The deadline for abstract submission is September 6 and for early registration September 19.

More details can be found in the USTS 2019 website at http://www.nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/workshops/usts-2019-meeting.

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid in November. 

Fernando Martín,

on behalf of the scientific and local committees of USTS 2019

Local organizing committee:

Cristina Díaz (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Beatriz Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Fernando Martín (IMDEA Nanoscience and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 

Antonio Picón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Ignacio Torres (IMDEA Nanoscience)

Scientific committee:

Luis Bañares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Crina Cojocaru (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Jesús González Vázquez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Fernando Martín (IMDEA Nanoscience and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Alicia Palacios (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Luis Roso (Universidad de Salamanca)