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23-25 April ‘13, Yokohama, Japan 22-24 April ‘14, Yokohama, Japan 27-30 April ‘15, Argonne, IL, USA, Japan

18-20 May 2016, Yokohama, Japan

18-20 May 2016, Yokohama, Japan

A Humble/but Serious Invitation to Romania!

5th7

Magurele, Bucharest, April 2017

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• WHERE?

EUROPEEUROPE

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EUROPEEUROPEBy plane …

1:35 h from Vienna

1:55 h from Munich

2:50 h from Paris

3:15 h from London

3:15 h from Moscow

~11:00 h from New York

~13:00 h from Japan

ROMANIAROMANIA

• ROMANIA BY PLANE

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• WHERE IN ROMANIA?

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• The Host Institution:

National Institute for Laser, Plasma andRadiation Physics (INFLPR),Magurele, Ilfov, Bucharest 077125

• Date?April (25-27), 2017

Henri CoandaAirport

• MEETING VENUE

- INFLPR: Conference facilities for cca. 100 participants.

or:- Hotel NOVOTEL (http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-5558-novotel-bucharest-city-centre/index.shtml)

in Bucharest:Conference facility forcca. 300 participants.

Also: RIN GRAND Hotel in Bucharest:Conference facilities for up to 500 participants.

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NO!

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• WHY IN ROMANIA?

• PROJECT: -- LASIGLASIG--TWIN 691688, 2016TWIN 691688, 2016--2018 2018 --• Title: LASER IGNITION - A TWINNING COLLABORATION FOR FRONTIER RESEARCH IN ECO-FRIENDLY FUEL-SAVING COMBUSTION

• Financing: EUROPEAN UNION, Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme• Grant amount: 1.066.122 EUR (www.lasig.eu; http://ecs.inflpr.ro/Proiect%20LASIG-TWIN%20691688.html)

• PARTNERS and CONFERENCE ORGANIZERSCONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

- INFLPR, Magurele, Bucharest, ROMANIA;- UBT: UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH, Bayreuth, GERMANY / Prof. Dr. Dieter BRÜGGEMANN / Dr. Sebastian LORENZ;

- UL: THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM / Prof. Dr. Geoffrey DEARDEN;

- CNRS: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENFIFIQUE, Châtenay-Malabry, FRANCE / Prof. Dr. Laurent ZIMMER;

- IOF: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, Jena, GERMANY / Dr. Erik BECKERT.

• LIC’17 organization is an OBJECTIVE of this project, partial financing (34.500 EUR included!).• Other sponsors: INFLPR, Renault Technology Roumanie, ….!• Scientific organizations from Romania: The Romanian Academy, The Romanian Society of Physics, Bucharest University, …

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• Anticipated participation fee: 150-200 EUR!• Expected number of participants: more than 100 persons! (Germany, Austria, France, UK, Russia,

Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Japan, USA, China)

LIC 2017 in Romania brings the chance to introduce LASER IGNITIONLASER IGNITION to the whole new field of renowned laser experts from the Eastern EuropeanEastern European region! !

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TARGET ATTENDANCE and MEASURES to deliver the NUMBER of ATTENDANTARGET ATTENDANCE and MEASURES to deliver the NUMBER of ATTENDANTSTS

• The conference will deal mainly with laser ignition:- Laser development and laser technology;- Diagnostics, or- Laser ignition in automotive industry, stationary industrial gas engines, aerospace use etc.

but additional subjects could be addressed, especially from:• CETAL (1-PW laser) facility of INFLPR (http://cetal.inflpr.ro/);• Plasma Physics and Nuclear Physics Laboratory of INFLPR (http://www.inflpr.ro/en/node/36);• Low Temperature Plasma Laboratory of INFLPR (http://www.inflpr.ro/en/node/34);• Advanced Technologies in Thin Films Laboratory (http://gap.inflpr.ro/)

or the new:• Extreme Light (ELI-NP) Infrastructure (two 10-PW lasers: http://www.eli-np.ro/index.php; https://eli-laser.eu/)

as well as from several Romanian universities with departmentsrelated to the automotive industry:

• “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, The Scientific Research and Continuous TrainingCenter for Sustainable Automotive Technologies;

• University of Pitesti, Faculty of Mechanics and Technology or• “Transilvania” University of Brasov, Mechanical Engineering Faculty.

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• Few other aspects

• Henri Coanda Airport, BucharestEasy access by plane from all main cities of Europe

Flying time (1:35 h from Vienna; 1:55 h from Munich; 2:50 h from Paris; 3:15 h from London)

• By the way: • HENRI COANDARomanian inventor, aerodynamicsaerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coanda-1910described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the THE WORRLDTHE WORRLD’’S FIRST JETS FIRST JET. He invented a great numberof devices and discovered the Coanda effectCoanda effect of fluid dynamics.

Coanda-1910 airplane 1912 Bristol-Coanda monoplane

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• BUCHAREST: 1859-1946: THE LITTLE PARIS

Size: city: 228 km2; metropolitan area: 1.521 km2

Inhabited since: 500 BCFirst documentation: 1.459 ACPopulation: ~1.9 mil. people

- Good hotels (50-100 EUR/per night)

- Attractive museums

and places!

The Romanian Athenaeum

The People/Parliament House

The Arch of Triumph

The Romanian Village MuseumMarriot Hotel

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- Friendly and good-looking people

- Tasty (おいしいですおいしいですおいしいです

おいしいです) food … and wine … and beer

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• … and … we have CARS

• 1908-1912: MARTA Factory, Westinghouse (USA) from Le Havre, France: 120 cars!

• 1912 - 1916; Austro-Daimler: 650 cars!

• 1921: Aurel Persu: The first aerodynamic car with wheelsembedded in the body: 120.000 km!

○ Aerodynamic coefficient: 0.22 (like a modern Ferrari!!!)

Aurel Persu graduated from the Higher Technical Schoolin Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1913 as VALEDICTORIAN.

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.·.• 1957: IMS & ARO (4××××4)!• 1968: DACIA (Renault!);

1998: 2.000.000 cars!• 1976: OLTCIT (Citroen)!• 1994: DAEWOO!

• 1998: RENAULT; 2007: 3.000.000 cars!

• 2008: FORD!

DACIA

OLTCIT

IMSCIELO

FORD

MARTA

AUSTRO-DAIMLER

AUREL PERSU

LOGAN DUSTER

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• THE FIRST LASER IGNITION EXPERIMENTS (summer 1976)J. Douglas Dale, Peter R. Smy, R. Monty Clements, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

- 1977: Spring meeting of the Combustion Institute/Canadian section;- SAE paper 780329, “Laser Ignited Internal Combustion Engine -

an Experimental Study”, Trans. SAE, 1539-1548, 1978.

• We hope these are reasons for you to come to Romania in 2017!

• … and … we have a little experience in laser ignition

• INFLPR&Renault Technology Roumanie:

2014 - Ignition by lasers of an automobile

engine!

• After 2000:• Bosh Company, Germany;• Austria (Vienna University of Technology; CTR Carinthian Tech Research AG);• Liverpool University, UK;• Argonne Laboratory, IL, USA …

………

• IMS & DENSO Co., Japan ⇒⇒⇒⇒ One-beam laser spark⇒⇒⇒⇒ Multiple-beam laser spark

⇒⇒⇒⇒ JAPAN:

FIRST CAR IGNITED BY LASER SPARKS: reported in 2013!FIRST CAR IGNITED BY LASER SPARKS: reported in 2013!

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WHEN?WHEN?

OPIC 2017: 19 OPIC 2017: 19 –– 22 April 2017; Yokohama, Japan22 April 2017; Yokohama, Japan

2323--27 April: NO!27 April: NO!

CLEO 2017: 14 CLEO 2017: 14 –– 19 May 2017; San Jose, California, USA19 May 2017; San Jose, California, USA

25 (Sunday) 25 (Sunday) –– 29 (Thursday) June 2017, Munich, Germany29 (Thursday) June 2017, Munich, Germany

LICLIC’’17: 20 (Wednesday) 17: 20 (Wednesday) –– 23 (Friday) June 2017, Bucharest, Romania23 (Friday) June 2017, Bucharest, Romania

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LICLIC’’17:17:2020--23 June 2017, Bucharest, Romania:23 June 2017, Bucharest, Romania:

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU!WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU!

我々は待っています！我々は待っています！我々は待っています！我々は待っています！我々は待っています！我々は待っています！我々は待っています！我々は待っています！

Thank you for your consideration!Thank you for your consideration!