The International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations (HPLC) is an international forum for the scientific discussion of 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 hyphenated techniques, such as LC/MS, CE/MS and SFC/MS. In addition, microfluidic, nanofluidic and chip separations, diagnostic systems, and other leading technologies are also considered.
This symposium originated in 1973 in Interlaken, Switzerland. Advances in the field of liquid-phase separations are highlighted at each meeting. Meetings alternate between Europe and the United States, and odd years meetings in Europe are accompanied by another meeting in Asia/Australasia region.
| 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 and Wim Kok |
| 2013 | Hobart, Australia | Paul Haddad and Emily Hilder |
| 2014 | New Orleans, USA | J. Michael Ramsey |
| 2015 | Geneva, Switzerland | Gérard Hopfgartner |
| 2015 | Beijing, China | Guibin Jiang |
| 2016 | San Francisco, USA | Robert T. Kennedy |
| Year | Location | Chair(s) |
| 2017 |
Jeju Island, Korea |
Doo Soo Chung |
| 2018 |
Washington, DC, USA |
Norman Dovichi |
| 2019 | Milan, Italy | Alberto Cavazzini and Massimo Morbidelli |
