Source: otst2011.itst.ucsb.edu
The International Workshop on Optical Terahertz Science and Technology (OTST) 2011 will be held in Santa Barbara, CA from March 13-17, 2011. The submission window is currently open.
The workshop is consists of one day of tutorials (March 13), three days of conference (March 14-16) and a one day social program (March 17). The deadline for submission of one page abstracts is October 15, 2010. Authors will be notified about acceptance of papers by December 1, 2010. Details regarding the conference can be found at http://otst2011.itst.ucsb.edu/home.html.
Confirmed Speakers:
Banquet Speaker:
David Auston
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Energy Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges for Science and Engineering Research
Plenary Speakers:
Jerome Faist
ETH Zurich
Terahertz Generation in Quantum Cascade Lasers, Circuits, and Antennas: Physics and Applications
Xi-Cheng Zhang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Recent Progress in the Science and Technology of THz Air Photonics
Tutorial Speakers:
Willie Padilla
Boston College
Controlling THz Surface Electromagnetic Waves with Metamaterials
Paul Planken
University of Technology, Delft
The THz Electromagnetic Near-Field
Mark Sherwin
University of California, Santa Barbara
TBA
Invited Speakers:
Richard Averitt
Boston University
Structurally Responsive Metamaterials at Terahertz Frequencies
Mischa Bonn
FOM-Institute AMOLF
THz Studies of Water Dynamics Around Protons and Ions
Andrea Cavalleri
University of Hamburg
Light Induced Superconductivity in Strong THz Fields
Thomas Dekorsy
University of Konstanz
Terahertz Emission from the Lateral Photo-Dember Effect
Kaori Fukunaga
NICT, Tokyo
THz Technology for Analysis of Artworks -Advances and Prospects
Frank Hegmann
University of Alberta
High Power THz Pulses and Nonlinear THz Dynamics
Robert Kaindl
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Ultrafast THz and Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanomaterials
Kodo Kawase
Nagoya University
Nonlinear Optical THz Generation and Real Life Applications
Andrea Markelz
University at Buffalo
Evidence of Correlated Protein Motions in THz Response
Koichiro Tanaka
Kyoto University
Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy in Molecular Crystals