The ELAFOT series started in August 1982, with the Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano de Fotoquimica (First Latin American Meeting on Photochemistry) organized by Eduardo Lissi and his group at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. The plenary lectures included the following: Atmospheric Photochemistry by Jack Calvert (National Research Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, United States), Biogenerated Excited State Reactions by Giuseppe Cilento (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil), Photogeneration of H2 in Sacrificial and Nonsacrificial Systems by Juan Kiwi (ETH Laussane, Switzerland), Use of Laser Flash Techniques in the Study of Organic Reaction Intermediates by Tito Scaiano (National Research Council, Canada), Photochemical and Structural Studies of Organized Assemblies: Interaction in Micelles, Microemulsions, Vesicles and Monolayers by David Whitten (University of North Carolina, United States), Reversible Photochemistry and its Biological Applications by Greogorio Weber (University of Illinois, United States), and Phytochrome: Photophysical and Photochemical Events of the Plant Pigment by Silvia E. Braslavsky(Max-Planck-Institut fur Strahlenchemie, Germany).
