| Location | Year | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Diego, CA | Feb. 1986 | UC San Diego - D.A. Mendis & E.C. Whipple | |
| 2 | Tallahassee, FL | Feb. 1987 | Florida State - Mihaly Horanyi | |
| 3 | Lawrence, Kansas | Oct. 1988 | Univ. Kansas - T. Armstrong | |
| 4 | Iowa City, IA | Sep. 1990 | Univ. Iowa - Chris Goertz | |
| 5 | Huntsville, AL | Mar. 1993 | Univ. Alabama at Huntsville - G. Wilson | |
| 6 | San Diego, CA | Mar. 1995 | UC San Diego - D. A. Mendis and V. W. Chow | |
| 7 | Boulder, CO | Apr. 1998 | Univ. Colorado - Mihaly Horanyi & Scott Robertson & Bob Walch | |
| 8 | Santa Fe, NM | Apr. 2000 | LANL - Michael Murillo & Dan Winske | |
| 9 | Iowa City, IA | May 2001 | Univ. Iowa - Amitava Bhattacharjee & John Goree & Robert Merlino | |
| 10 | St. Thomas, VI | Jun. 2003 | Auburn Univ. - Edward Thomas | |
| 11 | Williamsburg, VA | Jun. 2006 | Virginia Tech and NRL - Wayne Scales and William Amatucci | |
| 12 | Boulder, CO | May 2009 | Univ. Colorado - Scott Robertson and Zoltan Sternovsky | |
| 13 | Waco, TX | May 2012 | Baylor Univ. - Truell Hyde, Lorin Matthews, and Victor Land | |
| 14 | Auburn, AL | May 2015 | Auburn Univ. - Uwe Konopka and Edward Thomas | |
| 15 | Baltimore, MD | May 2018 | Univ. Maryland and LANL - Carlos A. Romero-Talamás and Zhehui Wang |