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You are invited to attend the 13^th German-French Workshop on Oxide, Dielectric, and Laser single crystals 2024 (WODIL), organized by CRISTECH and CMDO⁺ CNRS networks, under the aegis of the French Committee for Crystal Growth (CFCC-AFC) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallwachstum und Kristallzüchtung (DGKK, AK Optische Kristalle). This scientific event will take place on September 18^th–19^th, 2024, at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Alpes (MSH-Alpes, Human Sciences House) on the Grenoble Alpes University (UGA) campus, in Saint Martin d’Hères, France.

This workshop brings together scientists and scholars from industry, research labs, and universities to present and discuss the recent advances in the field of oxide, chalcogenide or halide crystals, dielectric materials, laser and non-linear optical crystals, OPOs and solid-state lasers, and related topics (laser spectroscopy, optical index metrology, magneto-optical properties, etc.).

Anyone interested in the workshop’s topics is cordially invited to participate and to present her or his interesting scientific results.

Two young researchers best communication prizes will be awarded by the Wiley Edition company.

We encourage you to submit an abstract for oral communication (15 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion), or for a poster communication at the workshop, by sending a filled two-page document in compliance with the attached template file, which will be included in the abstract book delivered at the workshop, at the following address: Matias.Velazquez@simap.grenoble-inp.fr

We also highly recommend you to attend for free the workshop special dinner at the gastronomic restaurant Per’Gras, at the Fort de la Bastille (470 m) in Grenoble, where you will go up and down by the famous bubble cable cars and have the opportunity to take amazing souvenir photos of the Grenoble area 270° panoramic view.

Registration:

Deadline for attendance and for abstract notification is on August, 25^th, 2024.

Registration fees: FREE

On-line registration: send to this email address Matias.Velazquez@simap.grenoble-inp.fr your GDPR authorization, summary and/or your participation to the workshop (see docx attached files).

Access:

The workshop will take place at MSH-Alpes Andrée Michel amphitheater, 1221 rue des universités, 38400 St-Martin d’Hères, France, on the UGA campus.

By train

Depending on where you come from, one possible stop the Grenoble SNCF railway station, or that of Grenoble Universités Gières. Tramway line B is available from both stops.

By car

Take the highways to Grenoble from:

    Chambéry: A 41 – Chambéry (57 km), Annecy (106 km), Geneva (141 km)

    Lyon: A 48 – Lyon (116 km), Paris (576 km)

    Valence: A 49 – Valence (96 km)

To get to the UGA campus from:

    Grenoble: exit 1 via avenue Gabriel Péri

    Saint-Martin-d’Hères: exit 2 via avenue Gabriel Péri and Champ Roman

    the Rocade Sud (southern ring road): exit 3, Domaine universitaire

By tramway

The MSH-Alpes is located 3 minutes by walk from the « Bibliothèques universitaires » stop of the tramway lines B and C.

Tram B – direction (Grenoble Oxford)®Gières Plaine des sports, coming from Grenoble SNCF railway station (the reverse if you come from Grenoble Universités Gières stop)

Tram C – direction (Seyssins Le Prisme)®Saint-Martin-d’Hères Condillac Universités

Tickets are bought and validated outside tramways. One ticket is valid during one hour, including connexions and backtrip.

From Grenoble SNCF railway station or the bus station (which are contiguous and located downtown Grenoble), take Tram B: Direction Gières Plaine des Sports – get off at Bibliothèques universitaires stop

    One tramway line every 5 minutes

    Trip duration: about 30 minutes

From Grenoble Université Gières SNCF railway station (for people coming by train from Geneva, Annecy and Chambéry), take Tram B: Direction Grenoble Oxford – get off at arrêt Bibliothèques Universitaires stop

    One tramway line every 5 minutes

    Trip duration: about 5-8 minutes

You may also get to the MSH-Alpes – Bibliothèques Universitaires stop by bus lines. Please check the M’TAG website.

By airplane

The most convenient airport is Lyon Saint Exupéry (LYS) from which you will find buses to Grenoble every hour (Flixbus, Blablacar bus, between 6 am and 11 pm, trip duration ~1h10). Get off at the Grenoble bus station stop and then get to the university by tramway line B.

Please save the date and forward this email to your colleagues potentially interested in this event.

For any question, please send an email at: Matias.Velazquez@simap.grenoble-inp.fr

With my best regards,

Matias Velazquez

on behalf of the WODIL steering committee:

– Matthias Bickermann, IKZ Berlin

– Christian Kränkel, IKZ Berlin

– Daniel Rytz, EOT GmbH – Coherent

– Sebastian Schwung, EOT GmbH – Coherent

– Philippe Veber, Crystal Growth Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, West University of Timisoara

– Matias Velazquez, SIMaP Laboratory, CNRS, Grenoble