New Scientific Possibilities with High Power THz Sources
a workshop to explore theory and experiments exploiting
fourth generation light sources
Programme
Thursday 29
- 12:00 onwardsLunch
- Restaurant
- 13:00Welcome
- Peter Weightman
- Session 1
- Chair: Peter Weightman
- 13:10The High Power THz Programme at Jefferson Lab
- Gwyn Williams
- 13:55Learning New Chemistry and Physics with THz Light
- Charles Schmuttenmaer
- 14:40Scientific possibilities for a THz facility to study vibrationally mediated enzyme action
- Nigel Scrutton
- 15:25New science with powerful THz sources
- Bill Truscott
- 16:00Refreshments
- Session2
- Chair: Martyn Chamberlain
- 16:30Probing Terahertz Dynamics in Devices and Materials with the UCSB Free-electron Lasers: From Semiconductor Quantum Structures to Proteins
- James Allen
- 17:15Controlling Light with Intense Coherent THz Pulses
- Larry Carr
- 17:45Polarisation sensitive terahertz spectroscopy
- Mike Johnston
- 18:15Discussion (including drinks)
- 19:00Close of Day 1
- 19:30Pre-Dinner Drinks – Halton Suite
- 20:00Dinner
Friday 30
- Session 3
- Chair: Larry Carr
- 08:30THz Photonics Using Ambient Air
- Xi-Cheng Zhang
- 09:15A proposed novel multiplexed near field Terahertz microscope
- Harvey Rutt
- 09:45CW THz Spectroscopy of Peptide Nanotubes and Co-solvated Crystals
- David Plusquellic
- 10:30Refreshments
- 10:45Artificial Materials for Terahertz Frequency Use
- Martyn Chamberlain
- 11:15Terahertz research activities at Novosibirsk free electron laser
- Boris Knyazev
- 12:00THz Scanning Near-field Microspectroscopy Employing Coherent Synchrotron Radiation
- Ulrich Schade
- 12:304GLS
- Peter Weightman
- 13:00Lunch
- 13:304GLS Fly-through demonstration (during lunch)
- 14:00Discussion
- Lead by Peter Weightman and Frances Quinn
- 16:00Close of Workshop
