Previous XAFS Conferences

The series of XAFS Conferences until 2000 (XAFS11, Akoh) has a tradition over about two decades while more recent tradition is once per three decades. It is also a tradition that in the EC meeting during the conference period, the future conference in six years is selected by voting after presentations by organizers. Since six years ahead is difficult to foresee, criticism focused on the selection of conference sites. During the conference period of XAFS16, the EC felt that the proposal guideline and deadline information have not been specified enough to allow fully community input and postponed the site selection by one year. The deadline for proposals to host XAFS16 is Sept. 1, 2-10. See proposal guidelines available by Oct. 1, 2009.

XAFS1 1981 Daresbury (UK)
XAFS2 1982 Frascatti (Italy)
XAFS3 1984 Stanford (USA)
XAFS4 1986 Fontevraud (France)
XAFS5 1988 Seattle (USA)
XAFS6 1990 York (UK)
XAFS7 1992 Kobe (Japan)
XAFS8 1994 Berlin (Germany)
XAFS9 1996 Grenoble (France)
XAFS10 1998 Chicago (USA)
XAFS11 2000 Akoh (Japan)
XAFS12 2003 Malmo (Sweden)
XAFS13 2006 Stanford (USA)
XAFS14 2009 Camerino (Italy)
XAFS15 2012 Beijing (China)
XAFS16 2015 TBD

Previous conference locations are indicated in the world-wide map and blowup of Europe. Three conferences were held in NA, eight in Europe and three in Asia.