History

The EMN Meetings grew out of a small workshop series that began in 2008 at a traditional villa in Orlando, Florida. Over the next three years, six additional successful workshops were organized on various focus topics in materials science, and grouped under the title of “Villa Conference” in honor of the original 2008 Orlando meeting. The Villa Conference series has grown rapidly beyond the traditional villa setting, continuing to attract highly-quality contributions from members of the international scientific and engineering communities.  In 2012 the first Conference with a broader theme of Energy, Materials and Nanotechnology was held. The EMN Meetings now include four annual gatherings: EMN Fall, EMN Spring, EMN West, and EMN East.

List of Past Conferences:

• 2008, Orlando USA
  Villa and Virtual Conferences on Interaction Among Nanostructures, February 3 – 7
  Villa Conference on Complex Oxide Heterostructures, November 2 – 6
• 2009, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands
  Villa Conference on Interaction among Nanostructures (VCIAN), September 6 – 11
  Villa Conference on Complex Oxide Heterostructures, September 13 – 18
• 2010, Santorini Greece
  Villa Conference on Complex Oxide Heterostructures, June 14 – 18
  Villa Conference on Interaction among Nanostructures (VCIAN), June 21 – 25
• 2011, Las Vegas USA
  Villa Conferences on Energy, Materials and Nanotechnology (EMN), April 21 – 25
• 2012
  EMN Open Access Week, October 22 – 26, Chengdu China
  EMN Fall, November 29 – December 2, Las Vegas USA
• 2013
  EMN West, January 7 – 10,  Houston USA
  EMN Spring, April 8 – 11, Orlando USA
  EMN East, September 7 – 10, Beijing China
  EMN Fall, December 7 – 10, Orlando, USA