UPoN4 History

The first conference, organized by Laszlo Kish, was held in Szeged, Hungary in 1996 and was mostly devoted to high technology devices. Conference participants recall its warm and productive atmosphere. The total number of talks was 57, the number of attendees was 83 and the Proceedings were published by Singapore Worldwide publishing.

The second one, organized by Derek Abbott, was hosted by Adelaide, Australia in 1999 and focused mainly on mathematical aspects and paradoxes in noise and fluctuation research. The total number of talks was 73, the number of attendees was 74, and the Proceedings were published by AIP. The conference received coverage in Nature (Random fluctuations - Unsolved problems of noise, Nature 401, p.23, Sept. 2, 1999). For more detail about this meeting please see here.

The third one, organized by Sergey Bezrukov, was held in the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda (Washington, DC), and focused mainly on biology, biophysics, and biomedical engineering aspects. The total number of talks was 73, the number of attendees was 106, and the Proceedings were published by AIP. For more detail about this meeting please see here.