21st International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy

The Conference will be organized by St. Petersburg State University and held at the hotel “Holliday Inn Moskovskie Vorota” located in the central part of the city. Social events include visits to historical sights of St. Petersburg and its suburbs: Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk and others.

History of IPS Conferences

Organized every 2 years since 1974, the IPS conference series has a long and successful history. The first meeting in Boston attracted 175 delegates, which has grown to 400 – 600 attendees in recent years. An account of IPS’s earlier years is given by Prof. James R. Bolton in a 1995 historical perspective of IPS.

IPS 0 (1974) Boston, Massachusetts

IPS 1 (1976) London, Ontario, Canada

IPS 2 (1978) Cambridge, UK

IPS 3 (1980) Boulder, Colorado

IPS 4 (1982) Jerusalem, Israel

IPS 5 (1984) Osaka, Japan

IPS 6 (1986) Paris, France

IPS 7 (1988) Evanston, Illinois

IPS 8 (1990) Palermo, Italy

IPS 9 (1992) Beijing, China

IPS 10 (1994) Interlaken, Switzerland

IPS 11 (1996) Bangalore, India

IPS 12 (1998) Berlin, Germany

IPS 13 (2000) Aspen, Colorado

IPS 14 (2002) Sapporo, Japan

IPS 15 (2004) Paris, France

IPS 16 (2006) Uppsala, Sweden

IPS 17 (2008) Sydney, Australia

IPS 18 (2010) Seoul, Korea

IPS 19 (2012) Pasadena, USA

IPS 20 (2014) Berlin, Germany

IPS 21 (2016) St.Petersburg, Russia