3rd EOS Topical Meeting on Terahertz Science & Technology (TST 2012)

Location: Kaiserstejnsky Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 17 June 2012 – 20 June 2012

General Chairs: 
Petr Kužel – Institute of Physics of the ASCR / Czech Republic
Peter Uhd Jepsen – Technical University of Denmark / Denmark

Program Committee: 
Richard Averitt – Boston University / United States
Jean-Louis Coutaz – Université de Savoie / France
Guilhem Gallot – Ecole Polytechnique / FR
Rupert Huber – Universität Konstanz / Germany
Michael Johnston – University of Oxford / United Kingdom
Martin Koch – Philipps-Universitaet Marburg / Germany
Chiko Otani – Riken Sendai / Japan
Paul C.M. Planken – Delft University of Technology / Netherlands
Masayoshi Tonouchi – Osaka University / Japan
Alessandro Tredicucci – NEST, CNR-NANO / Italy
Karl Unterrainer – Technische Universität Wien / Austria

Topics

Emission of THz radiation (QCLs, HEMTs, FELs, synchrotrons, nonlinear optics etc.)
Detection of THz radiation (quantum dots, single photon detectors, time-gated, HEMTs etc.)
THz integrated optics, waveguiding, plasmonics, metamaterials, photonic crystals
Interaction of THz radiation with matter (dielectrics, semiconductors, nanostructured materials, liquid-state dynamics, chemistry, biology, ultrafast spectroscopy etc.)
Nonlinear phenomena induced by THz radiation
THz far-field and near-field imaging, THz microscopy and microspectroscopy
Remote sensing of gases and chemical / biological agents
THz applications (security, telecom, remote detection etc.)

Keynote Speaker

Xi-Cheng Zhang, University of Rochester (US)

Masterclass Speakers

Edmund H. Linfield, University of Leeds (GB)
Keith A. Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

Invited Speakers

Dave Cooke, McGill University (CA)
Kodo Kawase, Nagoya University (JP)
Junichiro Kono, Rice University (US)
Oleg Mitrofanov, University College London (GB)
Hynek Nemec, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ)
Alexej Pashkin, University of Konstanz (DE)
Marco Rahm, Technical University of Kaiserslautern (DE)
Giacomo Scalari, ETH Zurich (CH)
Miriam Vitiello, National Research Council (IT)

Venue
Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is a most valuable historical city reserve. In 1992, the historical core of the city covering 866 hectares was listed in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Register. Prague represents a unique collection of historical monuments dominated by the Prague Castle which towers high above the city (www.praguewelcome.cz).
TST 2012 will take place at Kaiserstejnsky Palace which is located in the Prague Lesser Town and has been hosting events for more than three centuries.

Its total reconstruction began under the architects Zden?k Pokorný and Jaroslav B?lský in 1977, and it was registered a UNESCO heritage site in 1981. Restitution procedures were completed and the palace returned to its original owners in 1997.

For more information see

http://www.myeos.org/events/tst2012

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