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research and universities. Chairmen of the
HVS have been E. Winter (1962-1964),
G. Szigeti (1964-1976), J. Antal (1976-1988 ),
P.B. Barna (1988-1991) and J. Gyulai (1991-).
The Councillors of IUVSTA, nominated by HVS:
G. Szigeti (1965-1971), I.P. Valkó (1971-1977),
J. Antal (1977-1980), P.B. Barna (1980-1986),
I. Berecz (1986-1989), L. Guczi (1989-1995),
G. Radnóczi (1995-2001, 2007-2013) and
L. Kövér (2001-2007,2013-). In March 1979 HVS
organized the 36
th
Executive Council Meeting of
the IUVSTA in Budapest and in October 1985
the 51
st
Meeting in Debrecen. ECM-78 was also
organized in Debrecen (1997), in connection
with the 7
th
Joint Vacuum Conference, organized
by the Hungarian, Austrian, Slovenian and
Croatian Vacuum Societies. In September 2008,
ECM-105 was hosted in Budapest by the HVS.
The HVS has taken an active part in the Divisions
of IUVSTA since their development. P.B. Barna
as a member of the former International Thin
Film Committe (ITFC) was one of the initiator to
amalgamate ITFC into IUVSTA founding the Thin
Film Division in 1978. He was the first secretary
of the division in the period 1978-1983. L. Kövér
was elected for the Chair of the Applied Surface
Science Division of IUVSTA in the period 2007-
2013. P.B. Barna took a leading organizational
role on behalf of the IUVSTA in running jointly
sponsored Educational Workshops on Science
and Technology of Thin Films in the International
Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste.
The IUVSTA Prize for Science (2010) was
awarded to Péter B. Barna
“For his outstanding
results in understanding thin film growth
phenomena and structure-property relations in
one and multiphase thin films”.
matter interaction (Fonyód, 1977); on thin film
formation, (Fonyód, 1980) and (Hajdúszoboszló,
1983). Two IUVSTA Technical Training Courses
were held in Debrecen: 6
th
(2006); 10
th
(2009).
The organization of regional joint events has
been initiated by the Austrian Vacuum Society
and the predecessor of VPTA of REPS under
the sponsorship of HVS in 1978. The first
“Austrian-Hungarian Vacuum Days” was held in
1979 in Győr, Hungary, and the second in 1981
in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria. These events
grew to a periodically organized regional Joint
Vacuum Conference (JVC). At JVC-3 in 1985
(Debrecen, Hungary) Yugoslavia was invited to
participate in the organization. Later the Croatian
and Slovenian Vacuum Societies have been the
successors of Yugoslavia and from 2004 the
Czech and Slovak Vacuum Societies joined the
organizers, too. VPTA of REPS and HVS hosted
also the JVC-7 in 1997 (Debrecen) and later the
JVC-12 (in conjunction with the 10
th
European
Vacuum Conference (EVC-10) and the 7
th
Annual
Meeting of the German Vacuum Society
(AMDVG-7)), in 2008 (Balatonalmádi).
International conferences organized by HVS from
the 1950s were among the first ones in the field
also with the aimof aiding themeeting of scientists
from the West and East during the cold war
period: on gas discharges (Balatonvilágos, 1958);
on solid state physics (Balatonfüred, 1959); on
luminescence (Balatonvilágos, 1961); on electron
and vacuum physics (Balatonföldvár, 1962); on
optics and thin films (Budapest, 1963); on thin
films (Budapest, 1965, 1967 and 1975); on
UHV (Esztergom, 1967); on plasma physics
(Balatonvilágos, 1979), on ESCA (Debrecen,
1979).
The 4
th
European Conference on Surface and
Interface Analysis (ECASIA) was held in Budapest
(1991) and the 33
th
European Conference on
Surface Science (ECOSS-33) in Szeged (2017).
As a co-organizer, HVS was involved in the
organization of the 19
th
International Vacuum
Congress (IVC-19), held in conjunction with
the International Conference on Nanoscience
and Technology (ICN+T 2013) and the
15
th
International Conference on Solid Surfaces
(ICSS-15), Paris, France (2013).
Members of the HVS meet regularly at the
scientific meetings jointly organized with the VPTA
of REPS. Scientific presentations, information
about current national and international vacuum
events, industrial and educational progress are
reported and discussed there. In the last decade,
the HVS has continued to represent Hungary in
IUVSTA, in close co-operation with the VPTA of
REPS.
IUVSTA Workshops (W) and Schools (S)
organized by the HVS: (W) – 5
th
on polycrystalline
films (Balatonaliga, 1992); 14
th
on nanoscale
modification (Balatonföldvár, 1996); 22
nd
on XPS
(Hortobágy, 1999); 42
nd
on electron scattering
(Debrecen, 2004); 48
th
on thin films growth
(Budapest, 2006); 55
th
on electron transport
(Siófok, 2008). (S) –on thermodynamical problems
(Mátrafüred, 1971); on collision phenomena
(Fonyód, 1974); on charged particles – condensed
Pr. Péter B. Barna, winner
of the 2010 year IUVSTA
Science Prize
SUMMARY