History of SPP

The International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP) is a biennial independent and non-profit conference series widely regarded as the premier series in the field of plasmonics (see e.g. recent editorials in Nature Photonics: SPP6, SPP7, SPP8).

Previous venues of the conference series include:

• Obernai, France (SPP0 in 2001)
• Granada, Spain (SPP1 in 2003)
• Graz, Austria (SPP2, 2005)
• Dijon, France (SPP3, 2007)
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SPP4, 2009)
• Busan, South Korea (SPP5, 2011)
• Ottawa, Canada (SPP6, 2013)
• Jerusalem, Israel (SPP7, 2015)
• Taipei, Taiwan (SPP8, 2017)

Special issues reporting results from SPP conferences:

• SPP6 special issue in Optics Express (eds. Berini, Bouhelier, García de Abajo & Park)
• SPP7 special issue in Optics Express (eds. Levy, Berini, Maier & Mortensen)
• SPP8 special issue to appear in ACS Photonics (eds. Kawata, Sun, Tsai & Zayats)
• SPP9 special issue to appear in Nanophotonics (eds. Mortensen et al.)