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