Welcome to Charlottesville and ISSTT 2009!

Announcement: The ISSTT planning meeting will be held on Tuesday at lunchtime. Members of the Scientific Committee and groups interested in hosting the conference in future years are particularly invited to attend. Since we will be providing lunch in a separate room for this meeting, we need to know who is planning on attending. Please let us know via email by April 7 if you will be attending this planning meeting.

Announcement: Instructions for poster presenters have been posted on the "Abstract and Paper Submission" page.

Announcement: Deadline to reserve hotel room at conference rate has been extended to April 3, 2009 April 10, 2009 April 18, 2009. Please use "Hotel Reservations" link at left to make reservation.

Announcement: Final day to reserve hotel room at conference rate is March 29, 2009. Please use "Hotel Reservations" link at left to make reservation.

Announcement: A Millimetron workshop has been scheduled for Sunday, April 19, in the James Monroe Room of the Omni Hotel from 13:00-17:00.

A preliminary draft of the conference program has been posted. Please go to the Program page using the menu on the left.

The International Symposium on Space THz Technology (ISSTT), begun in 1990, is the premier forum for developers of low-noise sub-millimeter and THz receivers. The ISSTT was previously held in Charlottesville in 1996 and 1999. NRAO, along with Virginia Diodes, Inc., and the University of Virginia, is pleased to sponsor the return of this symposium to Charlottesville in 2009 for its twentieth year.

The technical scope of this conference includes millimeter-wave/terahertz instruments for astrophysics and other applications; heterodyne and direct detectors such as Schottky, SIS, HEB, TES, KID, and bolometers; sources such as frequency multipliers, lasers, and other technologies; optics and measurement techniques; and THz systems and backends.