Special Thanks from Committee

Message from General Chair and Program Chair

General chair and Program chair would like to thank to all the attendees for the contribution in ISLC Kobe.

ISLC Kobe committee would like to present a view-graph data-book with the support of plenary and anniversary speakers.

All the attendees can download the view-graph and photographs in ISLC Kobe.

Yuichi Tohmori - General Chair Kent Choquette - Program Chair

ISLC Information (General chair & Program chair)

Year Location Country General Chair Program Chair
1967 Las Vegas USA George Smith Jacques Pankove 
1969 Mexico City Mexico Jacques Pankove Art D’Asaro
1972 Boston USA Art D’Asaro Henry Kressel
1974 Atlanta USA Nick Holonyak Art Calawa
1976 Nemunosato Japan Jun-ichi Nishizawa Yasuo Nannichi
1978 San Francisco USA Tom Paoli Chuck Neuse
1980 Brighton England Peter Selway Ben Thomas
1982 Ottawa Canada Jack Dyment Bill Streifer
1984 Rio de Janeiro Brasil Jose Ripper Yasuharu Suematsu
1986 Kanazawa Japan Yasuharu Suematsu Ivan Kaminow
1988 Boston USA Ivan Kaminow Bob Goodfellow
1990 Davos Switzerland Bob Goodfellow Tetsuhiko Ikegami
1992 Takamatsu Japan Tetsuhiko Ikegami Martin Pollack
1994 Maui USA Martin Pollack Chris Harding
1996 Haifa Israel Chris Harding Yasuhiko Arakawa
1998 Nara Japan Yasuhiko Arakawa Thomas Koch
2000 Monterey USA Thomas Koch Karl Ebeling
2002 Garmisch Germany Karl Ebeling Yuzo Yosikuni
2004 Matsue Japan Yuzo Yosikuni Larry Coldren
2006 Hapuna Beach USA Larry Coldren Anders Larsson
2008 Sorrento Italy Anders Larsson Fumio Koyama
2010 Kyoto Japan Fumio Koyama John Connolly
2012 San Diego USA John Connolly Peter Smowton
2014 Mallorca Spain Peter Smowton Yuichi Tohmori
2016 Kobe Japan Yuichi Tohmori Kent D. Choquette

ISLC2016 Participants

By country (17 countries)

  Country Participants
1 Japan 135
2 USA 46
3 Germany 18
4 UK 15
5 Taiwan 13
6 China 8
7 Netherlands 5
8 Hong Kong 4
9 Sweden 4
10 Belgium 3
11 Korea 3
12 Switzerland 3
13 Israel 2
14 Russian Federation 2
15 France 1
16 Hungary 1
17 Spain 1
  total 265

By region

Region Participants
Asia and Australia 164
Europe 55
North America 46

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