Dear committee, Thank you for organizing this conference. I had the chance to attend in a previous year when I was working at LightMachinery, before I joined Carleton University, and very much enjoyed it. We are considering submitting a few abstracts and hopefully having one or more of us coming to the conference. Can I please ask you two (likely naive) questions: 1. Contributions to your conference are typically associated with what stage of research: a preliminary stage (proposing a new concept along with simulations or preliminary experimental results) or a more mature stage (results that are essentially ready to be submitted or that have been submitted to a journal)? If we do present a preliminary concept and results, could this impede our ability to submit to a journal later on? 2. Is the conference only in-person or is an online presentation conceivable (assuming one of our abstracts is accepted and attributed a presentation)? I hope to attend but budgets are tight. [If in-person is the only option we will limit ourself to submitting an abstract associated with the student who will likely come.] Thank you very much, Hubert ----------------------- Hubert Jean-Ruel, PhD Assistant Professor, Advanced Photonic Components Laboratory Canada Research Chair in Advanced Photonic Sensing Components and Systems Department of Electronics Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada