The 2026 International Symposium on Display Holography
Introduction
There seems to be nowhere else in the world for the Valiant Knights of Gabor to assemble to share their experiences other than Lake Forest College, in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA where Dr. Tung Jeong hosted the first ISDH in 1982. Keeping up the mission for the free exchange of ideas to perpetuate the medium, Ed Wesly, Lab Manager and
There seems to be nowhere else in the world for the Valiant Knights of Gabor to assemble to share their experiences other than Lake Forest College, in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA where Dr. Tung Jeong hosted the first ISDH in 1982. Keeping up the mission for the free exchange of ideas to perpetuate the medium, Ed Wesly, Lab Manager and Research Associate for the Holography Workshops in the 1980's and 1990's organized the last two ISDH's at this Campus, with support from the LFC Physics Department. Join us in June of 2026 for ISDH 2026 to meet up with other like-minded practitioners of Wavefront Reconstruction. (TJ in the Lab, holo & photo credit: Ed Wesly
People and Places
This conference is open to all practitioners of wavefront reconstruction, from laboratory recording artists to academic gallerists and all those entrepreneurial in-betweens, from any and all parts of the World. Anyone who pays the conference fee is free to speak and/or show their work. The order of the speakers is determined by the
This conference is open to all practitioners of wavefront reconstruction, from laboratory recording artists to academic gallerists and all those entrepreneurial in-betweens, from any and all parts of the World. Anyone who pays the conference fee is free to speak and/or show their work. The order of the speakers is determined by their order of registration. Everyone who desires to show their works gets a meter by meter bit of wall space in the Pop-Up Holo Gallery.
The conference will be held in the Lillard Science Center on campus, with an auditorium for presentations plus an exhibition hall adjacent to it for the display of holograms.
Daily meals in the College's Dining Hall plus Open Bar at the Social Hours are included as part of the conference fee,
which is $750, payable on-line or on-site. Registration will begin on April 1st, 2026. (Above, ISDH 2025 attendees. Photo Credit: Rob Taylor, Forth Dimension Holography)
Presentations
Save the Date!
All attendees are given the opportunity to describe the who, what, where, when and why of what they do in the field, either through classroom lectures or talks about their work hanging in the Pop-Up Holography Gallery in the Lillard Science Building at Lake Forest College. (Travis Paquin shows off his Space Age Lab in Iron Mountain at ISDH 2025,. Photo Credit: Michael McCain)
Save the Date!
Save the Date!
The 2026 ISDH @ LFC will set up on Sunday, June 21st and Presentations will begin on Monday the 22nd and run through Friday the 27th. (Above, Augie Muth, Michael Crawford, Deven Pandya and Josh Dellay caught in the lab at the Open House at the Home + Studio of E. Wesly in 2025 by Michael McCain)
ISDH 2026 - The Site
The Lecture Hall
The Lecture Hall
The Lecture Hall in the Lillard Science Building boasts a state of the art media center to enable the presenter to project their digital work from their own computer or via a jump drive, as well projecting slides with a Kodak Carousel or an overhead projector.
The Gallery
The Lecture Hall
Every participant can set up their wares on a tabletop or mount them on a 4 by 4 foot black velvet covered styrofoam board in another classroom in the basement of the Lillard Science Center. Everyone gets a single element LED lamp as part of the swag for joining this year's ISDH.
The Dining Hall
The Dining Hall
Included in the conference fee are 3 meals a day at the Gus and Maggie Hart Dining Hall on campus, a 5 minute walk from the Lecture and Gallery rooms in the Lillard Science Center. There is no better way to bond with colleagues than to break bread with them. Except possibly of course toasting each other at the after-dinner Open Bar for
Included in the conference fee are 3 meals a day at the Gus and Maggie Hart Dining Hall on campus, a 5 minute walk from the Lecture and Gallery rooms in the Lillard Science Center. There is no better way to bond with colleagues than to break bread with them. Except possibly of course toasting each other at the after-dinner Open Bar for the Evening Sessions.
The variety of fares at the Dining Hall offers to please even the most discriminating of palates, vegans included. https://www.lakeforest.edu/student-resources/dining
Online Payments
Pay the tuition for the whole conference here.
US $750.
Registration begins April 1st, 2026
Single day options are available, contact info@isdh2026.org