About EP2DS/MSS conferences > History

Conference History

Joint Conference

The two series of conferences have served as the stages for finding and exploring important novel concepts in physics and technologies such as superlattices, the Wigner lattice, the quantum Hall effects, quantum wires and dots, spintronics, the BECs of complex particles, graphene physics and devices, and topological phases.

The first “joining” of the two conferences occurred in 1985 for EP2DS-6 and MSS-2 in Kyoto, Japan. Tsuneya Ando (Chair of EP2DS) and Hiroyuki Sakaki (that of MSS) decided to hold the two conferences in parallel at the same location. The participants could freely come and go between the two. This form was reenacted in Nara, Japan, in 1991, again in Nara, 2003, and has been followed from then on.

The joint conference series is now established as a major event in the research fields of modulated semiconductors and low-dimensional electron systems.

EP2DS History

EP2DS (International Conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems; it started as EP”Quasi-“2DS) made its successful start on 24-28 August, 1975 at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. In the early time, the scopes are limited mainly to two dimensional systems, such as electrons at surfaces, interfaces, or layered materials. But with expansion of participants’ interest into yet lower dimensions, the conference now also covers zero and one dimensional systems.

*: Jointly held with MSS

Round    Year          Venue Country                     Chairperson

1            1975          Brown University (USA)       John Quinn and Phillip Stiles

2            1977          Berchtesgaden (Germany)   Gerhard Dorda

3            1979          Lake Yamanaka (Japan)      Shinji Kawaji

4            1981          New London (USA)              Frank Stern

5            1983          Oxford (UK)                          Robin Nicholas

*6           1985          Kyoto (Japan)                       Tsuneya Ando

7            1987          Santa Fe (USA)                    John Worlock

8            1989          Grenoble (France)                Jan Kees Maan

*9           1991          Nara (Japan)                        Motohiko Saitoh

10          1993          New Port (USA)                    Bruce McCombe

11          1995          Nottingham (UK)                   Laurence Eaves

12          1997          Tokyo (Japan)                       Susumu Komiyama

13          1999          Ottawa (Canada)                  Pawel Hawrylak

14          2001          Praha (Czech)                      Pavel Streda

*15         2003          Nara (Japan)                        Yasuhiro Iye

*16         2005          Albuquerque (USA)              Jerry Simmons

*17         2007          Genova (Italy)                      Vittorio Pellegrini

*18         2009          Kobe (Japan)                       Seigo Tarucha

*19         2011          Tallahassee (USA)               Lloyd Engel, Dmitry Smirnov (Conference Chairs)

*20         2013         Wrocłow (Poland)                 Jacek Kossut

*21         2015         Sendai (Japan)                     Shingo Katsumoto

*22         2017         Pennsylvania (USA)             Jainendra Jain

*23         2020         Cancelled

*24         2021         Toyama (Japan)                    Koji Muraki and Masaaki Tanaka (Conference Chairs)

 MSS History

MSS (International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures) was started as “Metastable and Modulated Semiconductor Structures (MMSS)” on 6-10 December 1982, in Pasadena, California, USA. The conference received its present name in 1985 and since then, it has been regularly organized in every 2 years. The purpose of MSS is to provide an international forum on the latest progress in the field of physics, formation, processing, and device applications of modulated structures.

*: Jointly held with EP2DS

Round    Year          Venue Country                     Chairperson

1            1982          Pasadena (USA)                  Anupam Madhukar and Frank Grunthaner

*2           1985          Kyoto (Japan)                       Hiroyuki Sakaki

3            1987          Montpellier (France)             Michel Voos

4            1989          Ann Arbor (USA)                   Leroy Chang

*5           1991          Nara (Japan)                        Satoshi Hiyamizu

6            1993          Garmisch Partenkirchen (Germany) Gerhard Abstreiter

7            1995          Madrid (Spain)                      Carlos Tejedor

8            1997          Santa Barbara (USA)            Pierre Petroff

9            1999          Fukuoka (Japan)                   Yasuhiro Shiraki

10          2001          Linz (Austria)                         Günther Bauer

*11         2003          Nara (Japan)                        Yasuhiro Iye

*12         2005          Albuquerque (USA)              Jerry Simmons

*13         2007          Genova (Italy)                      Vittorio Pellegrini

*14         2009          Kobe (Japan)                       Seigo Tarucha

*15         2011          Tallahassee (USA)               Lloyd Engel, Dmitry Smirnov (Conference Chairs)

*16         2013         Wrocłow (Poland)                 Jacek Kossut

*17         2015         Sendai (Japan)                     Shingo Katsumoto

*18         2017         Pennsylvania (USA)             Jainendra Jain

*19         2020         Cancelled

*20         2021         Toyama (Japan)                    Koji Muraki and Masaaki Tanaka (Conference Chairs)