The first Symposium on Laser Physics took place from August 29 to September 5, 1971, on the campus of University of Isfahan, with the support and cooperation of Sharif University of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.1
Ali Javan was director of the symposium, which was sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Fundamental and applied laser physics; proceedings of the Esfahan Symposium, August 29 to September 5, 1971, Edited by Michael S. Feld, Ali Javan and Norman A. Kurnit, HathiTrust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000663354 ↩