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2025 Summer Topical Meeting on Precision Design

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California USA
July 13-16, 2025

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — ASPE Topical Meeting on Precision Design

📅 July 13-16, 2025 | 📍 Berkeley, CA

We invite you to submit short abstracts for this year’sASPE Topical Meeting on Precision Design. (Many of you have already filled out the headcount survey, but this one is the official registration)

How is this different from the ASPE Annual Meeting?

This collaborative, focused Topical Meeting is all about Precision Design — bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government to share in-progress work, swap ideas, and offer constructive feedback in an intimate environment. Unlike the larger, more formal Annual Meeting, this event is designed to feel personal and practical, with lots of space for one-on-one discussions with peers who speak the same technical language.

Register for the Precision Design Topical Meeting HERE (Early bird before July 1, new members must create a “New Member Profile” before registering, apologies for the inconvenience)

Submit short abstract (or easier, 1-2 intro slides of your work) HERE (due May 31)

Session Topics

  • Cost-Effective Precision Design
  • Flexures
  • Precision Design in Additive Manufacturing
  • Precision Design in the Energy Sector
  • Large Scale Precision Design
  • Lithography
  • Medley: Spindles, Optics, Metrology & More

Tutorials

  • (A) Flexure Design – Stuart Smith, Kumar Arumugam
  • (B) Spindles – Byron Knapp
  • (C) Precision Design Principles – Ronnie Fesperman
  • (D) Controls — Lei Zhou
    For more information on the tutorials, check the following LINK!

Fun Stuff

General Schedule

Sun, 7/13 – Tutorials [Morning: (A) or (B)  |  Afternoon: (C) or (D)]

Mon, 7/14 – Technical talks, Poster/Commercial/Social Event, Skates on the Bay banquet

Tue, 7/15 – Technical talks, Informal evening gatherings

Wed, 7/16 – Morning tours of Berkeley Lab

Thanks for your consideration—we better see you there!

ASPE Topical Meeting 2025 schedule

Organizing Committee

Leon Chao
📧leon.chao@nist.gov

Senajith Rekawa
📧sbrekawa@lbl.gov

Mark Kosmowski
📧mark.kosmowski@mks.com

Todd Noste
📧noste1@llnl.gov

Accommodations in Berkeley

ASPE has not reserved a block of rooms at any specific hotel, so you will need to arrange your own accommodations. Below is a list of hotels in Berkeley provided for informational purposes only. ASPE does not endorse any particular hotel. However, some hotels may offer special rates for attendees of LBNL events and meetings if you mention that you are attending a special meeting at LBNL.

On the Berkeley Lab Campus

Downtown Berkeley Hotels on LBL shuttle route.

Other Berkeley Hotels

Transportation

Berkeley is served by 3 major airports: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), San Jose International Airport (SJC) and Oakland International Airport (OAK).

Berkeley Lab is located at 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley CA 94720 and has its own shuttle service that takes people around the site and to downtown Berkeley and to the BART station. Parking spaces are difficult to find on the Berkeley Lab campus, and you will need to prearrange for a parking permit via ASPE. ASPE will disseminate more information about parking permits at a later date.

For a complete listing of all of Berkeley’s transportation options and directions to Berkeley Lab, visit the Berkeley Lab website or the visitberkeley.com website.

Visiting Berkeley

Find out everything you need to know about who to see in Berkeley, what to do in Berkeley, when special events are in Berkeley, where to stay and dine in Berkeley and how to get around in Berkeley at visitberkeley.com