History of the HPLC Symposium
The International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations (HPLC) is an international forum for the scientific discussion of the methods of high performance liquid chromatography in its various forms, along with the complementary separation techniques such as electrophoresis, electrochromatography, field-flow fractionation, supercritical fluid chromatography and hypenated techniques, such as LC/MS and CE/MS. In addition, microfluidics, separations on chips, diagnostic systems, and other leading technologies are also considered.
This conference originated in 1973. Advances in the field of liquid-phase separations are highlighted at each meeting. The meetings alternated between Europe and the United States with even years being in the US.
| Year | Location | Chair(s) |
| 1973 | Interlaken, Switzerland | Willy Simon |
| 1975 | Wilmington, USA | Jack J. Kirkland |
| 1977 | Salzburg, Austria | Joseph F.K. Huber |
| 1979 | Boston, USA | Barry L. Karger |
| 1981 | Avignon, France | Georges Guiochon |
| 1982 | Cherry Hill, USA | Robert Bardford |
| 1983 | Baden-Baden, Germany | Klaus Peter Hupe |
| 1984 | New York City, USA | Csaba Horvath |
| 1985 | Edinburgh, UK | John H. Knox |
| 1986 | San Francisco, USA | Ronald E. Majors |
| 1987 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Hans Poppe |
| 1988 | Washington, USA | Georges Guiochon |
| 1989 | Stockholm, Sweden | Douglas Westerlund |
| 1990 | Boston, USA | Barry L. Karger |
| 1991 | Basel, Switzerland | Fritz Erni |
| 1992 | Baltimore, USA | Fred E. Regnier |
| 1993 | Hamburg, Germany | Klaus K. Unger |
| 1994 | Minneapolis, USA | Larry D. Bowers and Peter W. Carr |
| 1995 | Innsbruck, Austria | Wolfgang Lindner |
| 1996 | San Francisco, USA | William S. Hancock |
| 1997 | Birmingham, UK | Anthony F. Fell |
| 1998 | St. Louis, USA | Daniel W. Armstrong |
| 1999 | Granada, Spain | Emilio Gelpi |
| 2000 | Seattle, USA | Edward S. Yeung |
| 2001 | Maastricht, The Netherland | Hans Poppe and Henk Lingeman |
| 2001 | Kyoto, Japan | Nobuo Tanaka and Shigeru Terabe |
| 2002 | Montreal, Canada | Irving W. Wainer |
| 2003 | Nice, France | Antoine M. Siouffi |
| 2004 | Philadelphia, USA | Mark R. Schure |
| 2005 | Stockholm, Sweden | Douglas Westerlund |
| 2006 | San Francisco, USA | John H. Frenz |
| 2007 | Gent, Belgium | Jacques Crommen and Pat Sandra |
| 2008 | Baltimore, USA | Georges Guiochon and Steven Jacobson |
| 2008 | Kyoto, Japan | Koji Otsuka and Nobuo Tanaka |
| 2009 | Dresden, Germany | Christian Huber |
| 2010 | Boston, USA | Steven A. Cohen |
| 2011 | Budapest, Hungary | Attila Felinger |
| 2011 | Dalian, China | Yukui Zhang and Peter Schoenmakers |
| 2012 | Anaheim, USA | Frantisek Svec |
| 2013 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Peter Schoenmakers |
| 2013 | Hobart, Australia | Paul Haddad |
| 2014 | New Orleans, USA | J. Michael Ramsey |
| 2015 | Geneva, Switzerland | Gérard Hopfgartner |
| 2015 | Beijing, China | Guibin Jiang |
| 2016 | San Francisco, USA | Robert T. Kennedy |