An international symposium on the Jahn-Teller effect is held approximately every two years. These symposia cover general theories relating to the Jahn-Teller effect, as well as.experimental and theoretical aspects of the Jahn-Teller effect and vibronic coupling in a wide range of systems. These have included molecular systems (such as fullerenes, hydrocarbons and other molecules / clusters containing main group and transition elements), impurity systems and various solid-state systems.
The International Steering Committee for these symposia is:
Isaac Bersuker (Austin, USA) bersuker@cm.utexas.edu web
Arnout Ceulemans (Leuven, Belgium) Arnout.Ceulemans@chem.kuleuven.ac.be web
Claude Daul (Freibourg, Switzerland) claude.daul@unifr.ch
Wolfgang Ernst (Graz, Austria) wolfgang.ernst@tugraz.at
Pablo García-Fernández (Santander, Spain) garciapa@unican.es
Vladimir Hiznyakov (Tartu, Estonia) hizh@eeter.fi.tartu.ee
Michael Kaplan (Boston, USA) mkaplan@simmons.edu
† Daniel Khomskii (Koeln, Germany) khomskii@ph2.uni-koeln.de † (memorial site)
Hiroyasu Koizumi (Tsukuba, Japan) koizumi.hiroyasu.fn@u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Horst Köppel (Heidelberg, Germany) horst.koeppel@urz.uni-hd.de
Jin Jun Liu (Louisville, USA) j.liu@louisville.edu
Susanta Mahapatra (Hyderabad, India) susanta.mahapatra@uohyd.ac.in web
Spiridoula Matsika (Philadelphia, USA) smatsika@temple.edu web
Terry Miller (Ohio, USA) tamiller@chemistry.ohio-state.edu web
Victor Polinger (Seatle, USA) polinv@uw.edu
Tohru Sato (Kyoto, Japan) tsato@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Boris Tsukerblat (Beer-Sheva, Israel) tsuker@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
† John Stanton (Gainesville, USA) johnstanton@chem.ufl.edu † (memorial site)
Tao Zeng (Toronto, Canada) tzeng@yorku.ca
The previous symposia were held:
1976 Bad Honnef (Germany)
1977 Leoni
1978 Trento (Italy)
1979 Chantilly (France)
1980 Oxford (UK)
1981 Nijmegen (Netherlands)
1983 Liblice (Czech Republic)
1985 Marburg (Germany)
1987 Nottingham (UK)
1989 Kishinev (Moldova)
1992 Ovronnaz (Swizerland)
1994 Tartu (Estonia)
1996 Berlin (Germany)
1998 Erice (Italy)
2000 Boston (USA)
2002 Leuven (Belgium)
2004 Beijing (China)
2006 Trieste (Italy)
2008 Heidelberg (Germany)
2010 Fribourg (Swizerland)
2012 Tsukuba (Japan)
2014 Graz (Austria)
2016 Tartu (Estonia)
2018 Santander (Spain)
2023 Toronto (Canada)
2025 Louisville (USA) - Toronto (Canada)
Proceedings have been published in a variety of locations, with the most recent being
York: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2769 (2024)
Santander: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1148 (2018)
Tartu: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 833 (2017)
Tsukuba: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 428 (2013)
Graz: Novel aspects of the Jahn-Teller effect in molecular and solid-state systems Chemical Physics, 460 (2015) [Content]
Fribourg: Vibronic Interactions and the Jahn-Teller Effect, as part of the Springer Series Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, 2012, Volume 23 ()
Heidelberg: The Jahn-Teller effect: Fundamentals and Implications for Physics and Chemistry, as part of the Springer Series in Chemical Physics vol 97 (2009) [Köppel, Horst; Yarkony, David R.; Barentzen, Heinz (Eds.)].
Trieste: Journal of Molecular Structure Vol 838, Ed. I Bersuker, N Manini, E Tosatti and EE Vogel (Elsevier, 2007)
Leuven: Advances in Quantum Chemistry - Manifestations of Vibronic Coupling in Chemistry and Physics Vol 44, Ed. JR Sabin and EJ Braendas (Elsevier, 2003)
Boston: Vibronic Interactions: Jahn-Teller Effect in Crystals and Molecules, Ed. MD Kaplan and GO Zimmerman, NATO Science Series II Vol 39 (Kluwer, 2001)