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North American Mine Ventilation Symposium is the biggest biennial gathering of mine ventilation professionals in the North American continent. Previous symposia were held at these locations.

Edition	Year	Host	Symposium Chair
1	1982	University of Alabama	Howard L. Hartman, Ph.D.
2	1985	University of Nevada, Reno	Pierre Mousset Jones, Ph.D.
3	1987	Pennsylvania State University	Jan Mutmansky, Ph.D.
4	1989	University of California, Berkeley	Malcolm J. McPherson, Ph.D.
5	1991	West Virginia University	W. J. Wang, Ph.D.
6	1993	University of Utah	Ragula Bhaskar, Ph.D.
7	1995	University of Kentucky	Andrzej Wala, Ph.D.
8	1999	University of Missouri	Jerry Tien, Ph.D.
9	2002	Queens University	Euler DeSouza, Ph.D.
10	2004	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Sukumar Bandopadhyay, Ph.D.
11	2006	The Pennsylvania State University	Jan Mutmansky, Ph.D. Raja V. Ramani, Ph.D.
12	2008	University of Nevada, Reno	Pierre Mousset Jones, Ph.D.
13	2010	Laurentian University	Stephen Hardcastle, Ph.D. Dale McKinnon, Ph.D.
14	2012	University of Utah	Felipe Calizaya, Ph.D. Michael Nelson, Ph.D.
15	2015	Virginia Tech	Emily Sarver, Ph.D.
16	2017	Colorado School of Mines	Jurgen Brune, Ph.D.
17	2019	McGill University	Agus Sasmito, Ph.D.
18	2021	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology	Purushotham Tukkaraja, Ph.D.
19	2023	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology	Purushotham Tukkaraja, Ph.D.