IR sources, detectors and facility developments
– Synchrotron IR/THz beamlines: upgrades and new stations
– FEL and ERL IR/THz sources and beamlines
– Coherent and Ultrafast IR/THz synchrotron radiation
– IR/THz detectors developments and new technologies
– Stability improvements and wavefront correction strategies for synchrotron IR beams
IR spectro-microscopy and imaging
– Biology and Medicine
– Soft Matter and Material Science
– Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry
– Atmospheric and Astrophysical Applications/ Gas phase
– Geology and Environmental Sciences
– Cultural Heritage and Archaeology
– Multidisciplinary Applications
Nanoscale resolved synchrotron IR analysis
– 2D materials: local chemistry and nano-optics
– Nano-chemistry of heterogeneous thin films
– Bio-medicine in the nano-scale
– Nano-drugs
– IR nano-crystallography
– Ultra-broadband hyperspectral nano-imaging
– Cryogenic IR nanospectroscopy
– THz nanospectroscopy
– Strategies for enhancing nano-IR sensitivity
Special IR Techniques
– Ellipsometry
– Tomography
– Extreme environments
– Time-resolved experiments
– Pump-and-probe/multi-color experiments
– Optical Photo-thermal Infrared Microscopy
Special session: Why all the fuzz about synchrotron IR/THz now?
– The inevitable comparison with novel sources
– Is there room for IR/THz in last generation storage rings?
– Big data processing, complex instrumentation developments, community assistance/training, etc…: the advantages of a large multi-user facility