General:

LALS 2018 to be hold in Israel will aim to provide a unique gathering forum in which scientists from different disciplines of life sciences such as biomedical optics and imaging, laser spectroscopy, laser therapy and bio-photonic sensing can get together in order to establish a platform of collaboration, to exchange ideas as well as to learn about the challenges involved in laser applications in life sciences. The meeting will involve a fruitful scientific program for formal and informal interactions between the participants, as well as industrial exhibition and a touring program in Israel.

Venue:
Israel is a land of many contrasts and a remarkable variety of landscapes and people; a young country only 70 years old, in a land with thousands of years of human history and heritage. A land in which within 2 driving hours one may pass from the solid reddish rocks of the desert of Judea to the forests and waterfalls of the northern mountains. Pass through the ancient 4000 years old city of Jerusalem to the modern skyscrapers of Tel-Aviv. Despite of its relatively small number of population, Israel has proven itself as a high tech core, playing an important and emerging role as a worldwide engineering training center, such that many large companies have established their R&D centers in Israel (as Intel, HP Indigo - Scitex, GE healthcare, IBM, etc.). Israel has thousands of high tech startup companies as well as large and established world leading technological firms in fields of electronics and software, optics, imaging, space technology, home land security, healthcare, etc. (e.g. ELOP-Elbit, IAI and TEVA).Israel has a very strong and well-known academic base, with emphasis on Natural Sciences and Engineering, among which the most prominent schools are the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheba, and last not least the Weizmann Institute of Science. As such, and in strong collaboration with the industry, many international conferences are hold regularly in Israel. The venue of the conference will be the faculty of engineering at Bar Ilan University campus in Ramat-Gan (see Fig. 1). 

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