Our 47th IRMMW-THz conference in Delft, The Netherlands is now finished. We had over 780 attendees (525+ in person and another 255+ on line). This complicated and first full hybrid event went off without a hitch. The LOC team in Delft pulled off a miracle! Go to the conference website (www.irmmw-thz2022.org) for talks, photos, events and discussions. The papers and presentations will be available until December.
Our next conference (#48) will take place in Montreal, Canada during the week of Sept. 17-22, 2023. The website will go live in January 2023 or earlier, so begin making your plans to attend. The event takes place in the Centre Mont-Royal Conference hall directly across from the campus of McGill University.
***Call for 2024 Button Prize Nominations***
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2024 KJB Award ARE DUE BY April 15, 2023. A nomination form can be downloaded here and from the PRIZES&AWARDS page.
***Call for 2024 Zhenyi Wang Prize Nominations***
NOMINATIONS FOR OUR NEW 2024 Shenggang Liu Education Foundation Zhenyi Wang Award ARE DUE BY April 30, 2023. A nomination form can be downloaded here and from the PRIZES&AWARDS page.
***Call for 2024 Young Scientist Award Nominations***
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2024 YSA Award ARE DUE BY May 15, 2023. A nomination form can be downloaded here and from the PRIZES&AWARDS page.
The request for conference hosting Proposals for 2027 in Asia
Bidding proposals for hosting our 51st conference venue: IRMMW-THz 2026 in the Americas has closed. However, we are now entertaining proposals for 2027 in Asia, conference #52. Please send the one page Hosting Information form to Peter H. Siegel (peter.at.thzglobal.com) before the due date of January 31, 204.
The site for IRMMW-THz 2024 #49 is Perth, Australia with tentative dates of Sept. 1-6, 2024. Professor Vince Wallace is the Local Chair and Professor Withawat Withayachumnankul, EE Dept., Univ. of Adelaide, will be the Technical Program Chair.
The site for IRMMW-THz 2024 #50 is Helsinki, Finland with tentative dates of Aug. 17-22, 2025. Professor Zachary Taylor is the Local Chair and the conference will take place on the campus of Aalto University.
The 2023 Kenneth J Button prize goes to Professor Martin Dressel of Stuttgart University, Germany, “for contributions to the understanding of novel materials by advancing spectroscopic methods in the microwave, terahertz, and infrared spectral ranges”
The 2022 Young Scientist Award is given to Dr. Hassan Arbab, Stony Brook University, USA, “for important breakthroughs in the general area of THz imaging and spectroscopic measurements in the presence of scattering.”
Our 2023 Exceptional Service Award Winner is:
Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang of University of Rochester, USA.
READ ABOUT THE PIONEERS OF THz SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
We have added a new download section that archives a series of more than 30 special series articles covering the careers of many of our active Pioneers of THz Science and Technology (at the very bottom of our ABOUT page)
Some Major PAST YEARS NEWS Items:
IRMMW-THz Society is granted full non-profit status as a US 501c3 charitable organization!
On June 10, 2016 the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves was granted full status as a US 501c3 non-profit charitable organization. Donations are now fully tax deductible. Contact the General Secretary if you wish to make a contribution or donate directly at: http://www.irmmw-thz.org/donate
At our 2016 meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark the IRMMW-THz Society Board voted to institute a Young Scientist Award to recognize outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work by a young scientist who has made innovative contributions and discoveries in the field of infrared, millimeter, and Terahertz waves. The Award consists of a cash prize of $2000 and a certificate of recognition of the research achievements of the award recipient. Nominations are now open. An application form is available on PRIZES and AWARDS page.
IEEE has a new THz journal
IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology targets the entire THz field with high impact papers. The journal received a Journal Citation Report Impact Factor of 4.35 in 2013. The impact factor places it 12th out of 247 journals in EE, 17th of 136 journals in Applied Physics and 5th out of 88 journals in Optics. The Inaugural issue was released in September 2011 and is available on IEEEXplore.http://www.thz.ieee.org.
The International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves has been renamed as:
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (JIMT) in keeping pace with the conference.
IRMMW-THz Society Formed
On May 7, 2009 the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves was officially incorporated. On November 5, 2009 the Society received official status as a mutual benefit non-profit organization operating in the state of California, USA under IRS designation 501c4. The society was formed to give a permanent home to the International Organizing Committee for IRMMW-THz and to formalize the role of the IOC in maintaining the current conference series, hosting the international prize committee for the IRMMW-THz Society Kenneth J. Button Prize, and linking technically with the Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves and the IEEE Journal of Terahertz Science and Technology. The role statement for the society is: “Promoting the worldwide collection, dissemination and exchange of scientific and technical knowledge in the areas and disciplines involving infrared, millimeter, and terahertz waves.” A copy of the latest society By-Laws can be requested from Peter Siegel through the CONTACT page on this web site.