Welcome to the Laser Processing Research Centre (LPRC) at The Universty of Manchester, United Kingdom.

 

As part of the KE-LAS programme a lunchtime seminar was given to managers from the nuclear industry  on 17 November at the Energus Centre in Workington. Mr Roger Hardacre from the University of Manchester gave a talk on the use of lasers for cleaning and decommissioning and distributed a paper from Professor Lin Li the inventor of the laser based scabbling technique.  Dr Wei Guo gave a talk on the use of lasers for welding, drilling and coating in engineering applications. The third speaker was  Mr Stan Wilford from IPG Photonics who showed the delegates the new technologies emerging from fibre laser systems which allow high power to be delivered remotely in many applications.

 

The seminar was well received and led to many discussions over lunch

 

 

 

 

Invitation to the 37th International MATADOR Conference

It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the 37th International MATADOR Conference to be held in Manchester 25th – 27th July, 2012. The MATADOR Conference was established in 1959, which makes it one of the longest running conferences in the field of manufacturing. It is a truly international conference, which attracts high quality peer reviewed papers and delegates from countries all over the world. The Proceedings of the MATADOR conferences are published and held in libraries worldwide.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of 4 international journals. Deadline for abstract submission is 2nd October, 2011.

Please visit the MATADOR 2012 Conference website for further information.  

CPD Course: An Introduction to Advanced Manufacturing using New Laser Technologies

A programme of four, one-day courses running in the University of Manchester on the following dates:

Day 1 - Tuesday 5th July,

Day 2 - Thursday 22 September,

Day 3 - Thursday 20 October and

Day 4 - Thursday 17 November .

50-nm resolution microsphere nanoscope demostrated March 2011 - Our micro nano team, in collobration with Data Storage Institute and National University of Singapore scientists, has developed world's first 50 nm resolution white light nanoscope. The paper 'Optical virtual imaging at 50-nm lateral resolution with a white light nanoscope' [pdf] was published in Nature Communications on March 1, 2011, which has received very good public interests and media cover, including BBC, ScienceDaily, New York Times, Daily Mail, Independent, Australian BC and a large number of science and engineering websites.