List of items to be discussed

- Historical review
- The birth of the Longitudinal Impedance
- The Transverse impedance
- Dissipative equipment. Perturbative techniques
- Impedance of lumped equipment
- Generalization of the impedance concepts
- The Panofsky-Wenzel theorem
- Does the impedance satisfy the physical realizability theorem?
- The birth of the bench measurements
- Nassibian and Sacharer and the stretched wire method
- Potentiality and limits of the stretched wire method
- Above and below the cut-off frequency of the pipes
- The mode matching technique (MM)
- Combined use of analytical an numerical calculations
- Review of the most common CAD
- Alternative bench measurements
- Bench measurements from the highly relativistic beam approach towards low energy beam (slow beam simulation)
- Measurements of transverse impedance (the loop techniques at very low frequencies)
- Two wire vs displaced wire vs wire on image plane technique
- Limits of validity and caveats for the wire method
- Where do we need these days really the cavity perturbation method (for R/Q determination)?
- How about mitigation techniques for too high impedances?
- Loss factor measurements with the wire method
- Real time pulses and synthetic pulses
- Time domain gating
- Advantages and disadvantages of long tapers
- Etc.