-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Invitation to Key-note talk at TIPP2014 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:29:01 +0100 From: Jan Visser janvs@nikhef.nl To: Peter Hommelhoff peter.hommelhoff@physik.uni-erlangen.de
Dear Peter,
We would appreciate it very much if you could come to Amsterdam to give your key-note presentation. Even though, we would like to have as much interaction between yourself and the other participants of the conference for as many days as possible, we do understand that you are very busy and cannot attend the whole period.
However, due to budget limitations, we cannot waive or reduce the conference fee.
We hope you can find time and budget to visit TIPP 2014.
Kind regards,
Jan Visser
on behalf of the local organising committee
On 18-2-2014 23:35, Peter Hommelhoff wrote:
Dear Jan,
Thank you very much. Of course I can fully understand your reservations. I know already that I have to teach on Monday and have to be back on Friday. So if you schedule my talk for either Tuesday, Wednesdy or Thursday, I should be able to stay for at least 2 days.
If that's fine with you, I will be happy to participate and present. Unfortunately, there is nothing more I can do as our semester is still in session in June, which I am very sorry about.
Looking foward to hearing back you,
With kind regards, Peter
Am 18.02.2014 16:06, schrieb Jan Visser:
Dear Peter,
It sounds very interesting! However, we have some reservations with respect to having key-note speakers only present at the conference for just one day. In this way the desired interaction between the participants is not achieved.
I hope you can find some more time in your agenda, otherwise we do have to consider to put you on the back-up list and possibly confirm your talk at a later date and try to find someone who has more time to spend at the conference.
Kind regards,
Jan Visser
On 14/02/14 15:49, Peter Hommelhoff wrote:
Dear Dr. Visser, dear TIPP organizing committee,
Thank you very much for your kind invitation. It will be a pleasure for me to present.
I have to say that I hadn't heard much about the TIPP conference before, but I believe that after consulting the webpage I know why you invited me. It is probably because of our recent results on electron acceleration with laser light at a dielectric structure. I can in fact see that this new technology may enable new science through instrumentation. Let me mention that I like the theme of the conference a lot, as I believe that instrumentation and its development if often undervalued in general science discussions.
I would therefore suggest the tentative title "Laser acceleration of electrons at a dielectric structure -- from novel accelerator technology to ultrafast measurement devices".
I would first introduce the topic, explain the new principle of operation, show experimental results, and give an outlook on the various new possibilties. I would consider this talk to be rather general in nature, mainly introducing dielectric laser acceleration to the TIPP community.
Last, let me mention that since the conference is in the middle of our semester I will, unfortunaly, likely only be able to come for a day or so, in which case I assume that you will kindly not charge the (full) conference fee from me.
Again, thank you very much for inviting me.
With kind regards,
Peter Hommelhoff
PS: Kindly note my new affiliation at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (not Max Planck Institute any longer).
Am 14.02.2014 11:52, schrieb Jan Visser:
Dear Peter Hommelhoff,
The TIPP (Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics) conference will take place in Amsterdam from June 2 to June 6, 2014 (http://www.tipp2014.nl/). The conference topic is technology and instrumentation in particle and astro-particle physics, with links to related fields as part of the broader theme of instrumentation as enabler of Science.
You have been highly recommended to us for a key-note presentation at this conference and we invite you to give a presentation of 30 minutes, including questions.
We are looking for a balanced mix of detailed talks and overview talks. If you accept, we would like to know the preferred subject/focus of your talk, since in order to get a balanced programme we may have to ask some of the key-note speakers to consider their talk to either be more general or more detailed or vice versa.
Unfortunately, we are at the moment not able to cover travel cost or provide conference fees relief. We would very much appreciate your attendance and presentation, looking forward to your response. Please let us know before February 26^th if you accept the invitation and your preference for the focus of your talk.
Kind regards,
Jan Visser On behalf of the local organising committee.