History

Initiated in 1985 by John Stephen Roy Chisholm (1926-2015) of the University of Kent at Canterbury, the International Conference on Clifford Algebras and Their Applications in Mathematical Physics (ICCA) reaches in 2020 its 12th edition, hosted at University of Science and technology of China, Hefei, China, August 3-7, 2020. This series of international conferences, previously organized alternately in Europe and the Americas, aims at bringing together the leading scientists and the young researchers in the field of Clifford algebras and their various applications in mathematics, physics, engineering and other applied sciences. The English mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) is best remembered for his geometric algebras, nowadays better known in mathematics as Clifford algebras, named so in his honor, but he also contributed significantly to other branches of mathematics, especially geometry.

Previous editions of ICCA were organised at:

• 1985: University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
• 1989: Université des Sciences et Techniques, Montpellier, France
• 1993: Ghent University, Belgium
• 1996: Aachen University of Technology, Germany
• 1999: Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico
• 2002: Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, USA
• 2005: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• 2008: IMECC-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
• 2011: Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany
• 2014: University of Tartu, Estonia
• 2017: Ghent University, Belgium