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Wednesday April 13th
Informal Get-together: Westin's Pinzimini Bar, 7-9pm
All workshop hotel guests and any other available attendees are encouraged to join workshop organizer Stephen Hill and others in the Westin’s Pinzimini bar for an impromptu pre-workshop meet up.

Workshop Location
Westin Conference Room: Hemmingway 1 & 2 (Second Floor)

Thursday April 14th
07:30-08:30 Breakfast
08:30-08:50 Introduction: Krastan Blagoev, NSF
                                     Stephen Hill, NHMFL-FSU
                                     John Singleton, LANL
                                     Greg Boebinger, Director, NHMFL-FSU

08:50-12:30 Session 1: Chair, Stephen Hill, NHMFL-FSU

                    8:50 Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois
"Protein-solvent dynamics: current and future THz experiments"

                    9:15 David Leitner, University of Nevada
“Saccharides and proteins in solution: Computational studies of the molecular dynamics underlying THz spectra"

                    9:40 Glenn Edwards, Duke University
"Potential Biological Applications of THz/IR"

                  10:05 Further discussion: Discussion Leader, Andrea Markelz, SUNY Buffalo

 10:20-10:50 Break

                 10:50 Andrea Markelz, SUNY Buffalo

"Over view of measurements on liquids and biomolecules using THz TDS"


                 11:15 David Plusquellic, NIST
"State-resolved THz Spectroscopy: Phase Coherent Broadband Methods for High Sensitivity at Sub-us Scan Speeds"

                 11:40 Peter Weightman, University of Liverpool, Physics
"Are there terahertz solutions to problems in understanding the physics of life"

                 12:05 Further discussion: Leader, Andrea Markelz, SUNY Buffalo


12:30-14:00 Working lunch


14:00-16:00 Session 2: Chair, Johan van Tol, NHMFL EPR
  
               14:00 Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
"Probing correlated electrons in the THz at high magnetic fields and intensities"

                 14:25 Natalia Drichko, Johns Hopkins University
"Interplay of Charge Order and Superconductivity in BEDT-TTF-based Materials with ¼-filled Conductance Band"

                14:50 David Tanner, University of Florida
"Photons, magnetic fields, Cooper pairs, and quasparticles: The use of synchrotron sources to study pairbreaking in superconductors"

                15:15 Dmitry Smirnov, NHMFL-FSU
“Prospects of broadband IR spectroscopy with split-helix magnet"

                15:35 Further discussion: Leader, Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University

16:00-17:00 Break/refreshments

17:00-18:30 Session 3: Chair, David Tanner, University of Florida

                17:00 Nick Polfer, University of Florida
"Far infrared spectroscopy of mass-selected complexes pertaining to catalysis, astrochemistry and biochemistry"

                17:25 Wim van der Zande, Radboud University Nijmegen, Holland
"Three Short Aspects: Non-linear THz excitation, THz as a low frequency source and Serendipity"

               17:50 Robert Peale, University of Central Florida
"Anecdotes from THz science and about THz sources"

               18:05 Further discussion: Leader, Nick Polfer, University of Florida


18:30-19:30 Further discussion and report planning
20:00 Group dinner at Tandoori Nights Indian Restaurant


Friday April 15th
07:00-08:00 Breakfast

8:00-9:50 Session 4: Chair, Dmitry Smirnov, NHMFL-FSU

               8:00 Jack Freed, Cornell University
"High Frequency ESR: Biophysical Applications and Challenges"


               8:25 Mark Sherwin, UC Santa Barbara
“Free-Electron Laser-Based Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance at 240 GHZ and Beyond"

               8:45 Johan van Tol, NHML-FSU
"Electrical and Optical detection of Coherent Spin Excitations at High Field"

               9:05 Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee
"Light-induced, lattice-driven magnetic phase transitions in molecular solids"

               9:30 Further discussion: Leader, Mark Sherwin, UC Santa Barbara

9:50-10:20 Break

10:20-12:30 Session 5: Chair, Janice Musfeldt, University of Tennessee

             10:20 Rick Averitt, Boston University
"A perspective on the potential of dynamic high-field excitation experiments on correlated electron materials"

             10:45 Junichiro Kono, Rice University
"Time-Domain Terahertz Magneto-Spectroscopy of Low-Dimensional Electron Plasmas"

              11:10 Antoinette Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex Materials: Probing to Control"


             11:35 Larry Carr, Brookhaven National Lab
"Time-Resolved Studies of Materials using Accelerator-based THz Sources at the NSLS"
             12:00 Mark Sherwin, UC Santa Barbara (short talk)
"Ultra-strong coupling of short and quasi-cw THz pulses with semiconductor nanostructures"

             12:10 Short discussion: Leader, Rick Averitt, BU

12:30-13:30 Working lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 6: Larry Carr, Brookhaven National Lab, Chair

              13:30 Charlie Schmuttenmaer, Yale University
"THz-TDS studies of low frequency modes in organic molecular crystals and time-resolved THz studies of electron injection on dye-sensitized metal oxide nanomaterials"

            13:55 Carol Hirschmugl, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Rapid and Contact-less Broadband IR WIde-field Imaging with Multiple Synchrotron Beams"

            14:20 Gwyn Williams, Jlab
"Low frequency electronic and vibrational dynamical coupling"

           14:45 Further discussion: Leader, Charlie Schmuttenmaer, Yale


15:00 Wrap-up and start of report writing







"Over view of measurements on liquids and biomolecules using THz TDS"

"Potential Biological Applications of THz/IR"