IDEAS: the first quarter century

Abstract

This year marks the silver anniversary of IDEAS. It has been an exciting quarter century to shepherd this meeting through good times and not so good ones. We have survived Ebola, MERS and SARS. Whereas the others were local, the COVID pandemic, which still rages, has forced us to move to an on-line version, but thanks to the participants and the dedicated program committee we have continued. This paper is a photographic journey through the years of IDEAS. Unfortunately we have not been able to have the images of all participants over the quarter century oi IDEAS. This is just a sampling of some of the fond moments during the social gatherings of the IDEAS family.