Background Information
The first PASCOS symposium was conceived at Northeastern University where the first two of these symposia were held in 1990 and 1991. Since then the PASCOS symposium has been held at many other leading institutions:

• Northeastern University (1990,1991)
• University of California, Berkeley (1992)
• Syracuse University (1994)
• Johns Hopkins University (1995)
• Northeastern University (1998)
• University of California, Davis (1999)
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2001)
• Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai (2003)
• Northeastern University (2004)
• Gyeongju, Korea (2005)
• Ohio State University (2006)
• Imperial College (2007)