The first Multiphoton Processes Gordon conference was held in 1982 at Colby Sawyer College. The first chair was Georgia Fisanick (Bell Labs) and Mel Robins (Bell Labs) was vice-chair. The photograph is the conference picture from that first meeting. See if you can identify some colleagues or even yourself.

The 2002 conference celebrates the 20^th anniversary of this very successful series. At its inception the aim of the conference was to bring together researchers working on fundamental aspects of multiphoton processes in atomic and small molecular systems with those interested in applications to systems of chemical and physical interest. It represented a melting pot of ideas from the physics and chemistry community. This year meeting continues this tradition that were established by those early organizers and participants.

Here is a chronological list of the past chairs:

1982    Georgia Fisanick (Bell Labs)

1984    Steve Colson (Yale)

1986    Pat Dehmer (Argonne Nat’t Lab)

1988    Phil Johnson (SUNY Stony Brook)

1990    Peter Lambropoulos (USC)

1992    Tom Baer (North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

1994    Bob Compton (U Tennessee)

1996    Ed Grant (Purdue)

1998    Ken Kulander (LLNL)

2000    John Hepburn (Waterloo)

> Special thanks to Prof. Phil Johnson (Stony Brook) for supplying the photograph and some history.