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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