Previous meetings in this series were held in Garching, Germany (1997), Lisbon, Portugal (1999), Padova, Italy (2001), San Diego, United States of America (2003), Budapest, Hungary (2005), Inuyama, Japan (2007), Aix-en-Provence, France (2009), San Francisco, United States of America (2011), Hefei, China (2013), Ahmedabad, India (2015), Greifswald, Germany (2017), Daejeon, Korea (2019).