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The inaugural PECS conference, held in Laguna Beach, USA and organised by Eli Yablonovitch, was called WECS - Workshop on Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, Design, Synthesis, and Applications.
Photonic and electromagnetic crystals have fascinated - and confounded! - researchers over many years. It is this intense interest which in the January of 1999 drew together those studying in the nascient field to organise the very first of the PECS conferences.
past PECS meetings...
| PECS-I: January 6-8, 1999 Laguna Beach, USA |
Convenors: Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Axel Scherer |
| PECS-II: March 8–10, 2000, Sendai, Japan |
Co-convenors: Shojiro Kawakami, Tohoku University, Japan K. Inoue, Hokkaido University, Japan |
| PECS-III: June 9-14, 2001, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK |
Convenor: Thomas Krauss, University of St Andrews, Scotland |
| PECS-IV: October 28 - 31, 2002, Los Angeles, USA |
Convenor: Shawn Lin, Sandia National Laboratories |
| PECS-V: March 7-11, 2004, Kyoto Japan |
Convenor: Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan |
| PECS-VI: June 19-24, 2005, Aghia Pelaghia, Crete, Greece |
Convenor: Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University, USA |
| PECS-VII: April 8-11, 2007, Monterey, California, USA |
Convenors: Xiang Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, USA and David R. Smith, Duke University, USA |
| PECS-VIII: April 5-9, 2009 Sydney, Australia |
Convenor: Ben Eggleton, CUDOS, The University of Sydney |