Manfred Thumm
Affiliation: Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology (IHM) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe, Germany
Title of speech: The Gyrotron at 60: historical overview
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Richard Saykally
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Title of speech: Hydrogen bond breaking dynamics in water clusters: Terahertz VRT spectroscopy of the 20 μm out-of-plane libration
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Federico Capasso
Affiliation: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA
Title of speech: The Quantum Cascade Laser Pumped Molecular Laser: A Widely Tunable THz Source
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Xi-Cheng Zhang
Affiliation: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, United States
Title of speech: THz Photonics: A Journey from Scientific Curiosity to Transformative Technology
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George Neil
Affiliation: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, United States
Title of speech: Shared talk on FELs: A Historical Perspective (with Andrea Doria)
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Andrea Doria
Affiliation: Fusion and Nuclear Dept ENEA Frascati, Rome, Italy
Title of speech: Shared talk on FELs: A Historical Perspective (with George Neil)
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Michael von Ortenberg
Affiliation: Institute of Physics Humboldt University of Berlin Berlin, Germany
Title of speech: FIR and Submm spectroscopy
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Alfred Leitenstorfer
Affiliation: Konstanz University
Title of speech:
A Subcycle View on Elementary Phenomena
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Heinz Wilhelm Huebers
Affiliation:
DLR
Title of speech:
THz/FIR astronomy: past and future
Fritz Keilmann
Affiliation: Fakultät für Physik & Center for NanoScience (CeNS) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Title of speech: The Roots of THz Near-Field Microscopy
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Antti Räisänen
Affiliation: MilliLab, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Title of speech: Beginning of mm-wave and THz research in Finland
Antti V. Räisänen is Professor Emeritus at Aalto University, where he served as a Professor of Radio Engineering from 1987 until his retirement in 2018. He received his Doctor of Science (Tech.) in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1981. During his career, Prof. Räisänen supervised 56 doctoral students and authored or co-authored over 500 scientific papers and seven books, including Radio Engineering for Wireless Communication and Sensor Applications (Artech House 2003) and Semiconductor Terahertz Technology: Devices and Systems at Room Temperature Operation (Wiley 2015).
He was a visiting Scientist and Professor with the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory and the University of Massachusetts, University of California, Berkeley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Paris Observatory and University of Paris, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
A Fellow of IEEE and Antenna Measurement Techniques Association, he has received numerous prestigious awards, including two Decorations from the President of Finland: Knight First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2001) and Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland (2017), and an Honorary Doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
In addition to his academic contributions, Prof. Räisänen is a dedicated marathon runner with 185 marathons completed, including winning a silver medal in the Finnish Veterans’ National Championship Marathon in 2020.