Presentation guidelines

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Important dates


Abstracts due 3 May 2023
National Ignition Facility (NIF) Tours - Application Due 15 May 2023
Laser Damage Competition - Samples Due 15 May 2023
Registration opens 20 June 2023
Authors notified and program posts online 26 June 2023
Submission system opens for manuscripts and poster PDFs* 17 July 2023
Poster PDFs due for spie.org preview and publication 23 Aug. 2023
Advance upload deadline for oral presentation slides** 15 Sept. 2023
Manuscripts due 11 Oct. 2023

*Contact author or speaker must register prior to uploading.

**After this date slides must be uploaded onsite at Speaker Check-In

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