Scientific Director Ugo Valbusa
Scientific Secretary
Massimo Sancrotti
The
STD discussed and approved the following workshops, which have been held during
this triennium. Some of them have been funded and they will be held in the
beginning of the next triennium (initials indicate sponsoring Divisions). Each
workshop received 10,000 CHF.
25th IUVSTA Workshop Gas-Surface Interactions: Electronic Structure, Dynamics and Reactivity, Leibnitz, Austria, September 1999 (SS and ASS);
26th IUVSTA Workshop Surface Holography and Other Direct Methods, August 2000, Hong Kong, China (SS);
27th IUVSTA Workshop Dynamical Phenomena Related with Electrons at Surfaces, January 2001, Kushiro, Japan, (SS);
28th IUVSTA Workshop Ion Beam Techniques for the Analysis of Composition and Structure with Atomic Layer Resolution, June 2000, Cosener’s House, Abingdon, Oxford, (SS, ASS);
29th IUVSTA Workshop Selective and Functional Film Deposition Technologies for ULSI, November 2000, Mie, Japan (EM);
30th IUVSTA Workshop Scanning Probe Spectroscopy, July 2000, Hamburg, Germany (NS);
31st IUVSTA Workshop Nanoparticles, July 2001, Stratford-on-Avon, England (NS);
32nd IUVSTA Workshop on Gas-Surface Interaction, September 2000, St-Petersburg, Russia (SS, VS);
33rd IUVSTA Workshop Diamond and Diamond-like Carbon: Science and Applications, November 2001, Aguas de Lindoia, Sao Paulo State, Brazil (EM);
34th
IUVSTA Workshop XPS: From Spectra to Results-Towards an Expert System, April
2002, Saint-Malo, France (ASS).
The STD worked to
prepare guidelines for IUVSTA Schools. During this triennium the 4th IUVSTA
School on "Quantum Devices and Nanostructures" was held in July 1999
in Cortona, Italy, sponsored by EM and NS Divisions.
The Highlight Seminars meeting, devoted to highlights the scientific achievements obtained in the areas covered by the IUVSTA Divisions, was held on Friday, March 31st 2000 in Namur in conjunction with the ECM 85. Topics and speakers are hereafter reported.
John T. Grant, Research Institute, University of Dayton, USA Databases and Dataprocessing for X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
R.B. Jackman, U.K. The Emergence of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
R. Wiesendanger, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany. Magnetic Nanostructures probed by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling
J. Caughman, RF/Plasma Technology Section, Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A. Recent Progress in the Applications of Plasma Science and Technology
AkioYoshimori, Okayama University of Science, Japan Surface Science-Structures, Dynamics and Microscopies with Atomic Resolution
Jan Verhoeven, FOM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Layer Growth at Nano-scale
Allan Matthews, The Research Center in Surface Engineering, University of Hull, U.K. Developments in Vacuum-deposited Tribological Coatings
F. Mazzolini,
Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. Emerging Applications of Vacuum Technology
A template was
prepared by M.Sancrotti, L.Westerberg and John Grant in order to make Division
web pages uniform and conformal. The template was circulated among the
Divisions.
The STD was
continously informed about the progresses in the organization of the IVC-15 by
the Congress Chairman (B.Rogers) and by the Chairmen of the Divisions
The Secretary of STD, Prof Sancrotti, prepared the nominations for the Divisional members for the next triennium.