The detailed program will be announced after abstract submission closes. Poster sessions are scheduled in the evenings of Days 1 and 2. The overall schedule is planned as follows (tentative):
Monday
Afternoon Opening & oral sessions
Evening Poster session
Tuesday・Japan National Holiday
All day Oral sessions
Late PM Poster sessions
Evening Banquet at Okayama Castle SOCIAL
Wednesday
Morning Oral sessions & closing
Afternoon Tour to Okayama Observatory
OPTIONAL
The following invited speakers are planned, covering the latest technologies from millimeter waves to terahertz waves across a wide range of fields (to be confirmed). As a special feature of this year's workshop, invited talks from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments — Simons Observatory and LiteBIRD — are planned to promote technical exchange between the millimeter/submillimeter receiver and CMB communities.
Sheng-Cai Shi — Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Recent developments in millimeter/submillimeter-wave technologies at PMO
Hiroshi Matsuo — Advanced Technology Center, NAOJ
Terahertz bolometer detectors and photon-counting interferometry
Masayoshi Tonouchi — Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University
Terahertz radiation upon femtosecond laser illumination
Yu Tokizane —Institute of Post LED Photonics, Tokushima University
Terahertz wireless communication system
Satoru Takakura — School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Speaker on the Simons Observatory ground-based CMB experiment TBD
Frederick Takayuki MATSUDA — JAXA
Speaker on the LiteBIRD CMB satellite mission TBD