"Current and future efforts in measuring far-from-equilibrium properties using single shot THz spectroscopy" Prof. Ben Ofori-Okai, SLAC

Abstract
In this talk, I will present the use of single-shot terahertz spectroscopy to probe strongly coupled matter. Terahertz spectroscopy has been used in many scientific areas because of its sensitivity to fundamental degrees of freedom that uniquely characterize a system. I will first discuss the appeal and utility of the single-shot terahertz technique as a method for studying irreversible phase transformations. I will then show demonstrative examples where single-shot THz  spectroscopy was used to study far from equilibrium matter. Finally, I will discuss potential future applications.  

Bio 
Prof. Ben Ofori-Okai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University. He received his PhD from MIT working with Keith Nelson and was a postdoc and Panofsky Fellow at SLAC in the High Energy Density Sciences  Division under Siegfried Glenzer. Ben's research interests involve developing newly developed THz spectroscopic tools and combine them with other diagnostics to investigate extreme states of matter as well as  complex materials driven far from equilibrium.