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Two decades later a Working Group “Vacuum

Technology” was created within the Czecho-

slovak Society for Science and Technology.

This Working Group registered members

interested in vacuum science and technology

and began to organise summer schools and

seminars.

After splitting of Czechoslovakia into two

independent countries the Czech and Slovak

Vacuum Societies were created. Czech Vacuum

Society (ČVS) was founded on the 29 April 1993.

The chairman of the preparatory committee and

the first President of ČVS, serving then till 2004,

was Pavel Hedbávný. The majority of members

of the Working Group Vacuum Technology

became members of the Czech Vacuum Society.

From the very beginning excellent working

contacts were created between the Czech and

Slovak Vacuum Societies. ČVS continued in

activities as seminars and summer schools on

vacuum science and technology and also began

to organise and co-organise further events as

PRAGOVAC and international conferences.

IUVSTA General Meeting GM 12 in Yokohama in

1995 accepted the ČVS application to join the

Union. The scientific structure of ČVS follows

the divisional structure of IUVSTA. In 2004 Karel

Mašek became the President of ČVS and he

leads Czech Vacuum Society till now.

The main activities of the Czech VacuumSociety are:

Summer Schools on Vacuum Science and

Technology Summer Schools are organised

once a year from 1987 in different regions of

Czech Republic and Slovakia. ČVS organised

Summer Schools together with Slovak

Vacuum Society in years 1997, 1998, 1999,

2004, 2007, 2017 in Slovakia. Each summer

school is devoted to a selected part of

vacuum science – usually with some practical

applications. Summer Schools have different

levels from training courses to high level lecture

series. In the last 30 years broad variety of

vacuum topics was presented.

For example the Summer Schools held in

years 2013-2017 are summarized below:

- Preparation and characterization of thin

films at low pressure, Topoľčianky (Western

Slovakia), 2017, May 29-June 1

- Low pressure plasma processes and

technology II, Bořetice (Southern Moravia),

2016, May 29-June 1

- Low pressure plasma processes and

technology I, Úštěk (Northern Bohemia),

2015, June 1-4

- Modern surface analytical methods, Česko-

moravská vysočina (Bohemian-Moravian

Highlands), 2014, May 26-29

- UHV/XHV in research and advanced industrial

technologies, Horní Bečva in Beskydy

Mountains (Northern Moravia), 2013,

May 27-30

PRAGOVAC – an exhibition with a seminar,

taking place every year in November from the

year 1992.

PRAGOVAC as a meeting of users and

producers of the vacuum instrumentation

has become very popular in the Czech

vacuum community. Usually about twenty

companies and hundred participants take

part. The jubilee 25

th

PRAGOVAC in 2016

was held in the historical building of the

Charles University in Prague in the presence

of the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics

and Physics Jan Kratochvíl, IUVSTA President

Elect Anouk Galtayries, IUVSTA Secretary

Since 1965 the Czechoslovak vacuum community was represented in IUVSTA by the

Czechoslovak National Committee on Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications,

supervised by Academy of Sciences, however no Czechoslovak Vacuum Society existed.

CZECH VACUUM SOCIETY

Česká Vakuová Společnost (ČVS)

P. Hedbávný, Z. Hůlek

www.vakspol.cz