
History
The historical conference celebrates the 50th anniversary in 2025 ! (LS) series started as the Light Sources technology conference, with the 1st LS (LS1) in 1975 in Loughborough, United Kingdom. (LS) used to be held every three years, such as LS7 in Kyoto (1995), LS8 in Greifswald (1998), LS9 in Ithaca (2001), LS10 in Toulouse (2004), LS11 in Shanghai (2007), LS12 in Eindhoven (2010). Since LS13 in Troy (2012), LS has become a series of biennial symposiums, followed by LS14 in Lake Como (2014), LS15 in Kyoto (2016), LS16 in Sheffield (2018), LS17 in Toulouse (2022) and LS18 in Mumbai (2023), LS2024 in Eindhoven (2024).
(LS) migrated towards the main IEEE conference in the field of lighting, combining many disciplines, extending towards systems and applications and also connecting to the field the effects of light, and consequently positions itself as the key opportunity to address Smart Sustainable Lighting.