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At the national level, AIV has organised and still
organises on a periodic basis courses on vacuum
physics and technology, applied surface science
and engineering and on nondestructive testing.
In addition several courses are held on demand
from industries or research laboratories involved
in vacuum techniques and applications in various
parts of the country. Short courses are also
delivered, on several technological applications, on
plasma physics, thin films, vacuum metallurgy, etc.
Workshops, usually one day-specialised
workshops, are held on request. These mostly
deal with topics such as pure gases handling and
analyses, quality in vacuum technology, vacuum
panels, and others.
At the international level, various congresses and
international workshops have been organised
over the years. This list includes a series of schools
on surface science technique applications
(ISASST I, II, III, and IV), some European
Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS 2,
10, 16, 26), several IUVSTA Workshops and
IUVSTA Summer Schools, the 2
nd
European
Conference on Vacuum (1990) in Trieste, the
2
nd
International Conference on Thin Film
(1972) in Venice and the International Vacuum
Conference 16 held in Venice in June-July 2004.
This Conference represented for AIV the most
important and challenging event in its history.
More than 1,800 scientific delegates attended
the event and more than 100 commercial boots
set up their stands at the joint exhibition. In
order to open the society to new topics and
applications, the society general assembly at the
National Conference in Florence in April 2007
unanimously voted a new statute where, among
other actions, it was ratified the change of the
society name from “
Associazione Italiana del
Vuoto”
into
“Associazione Italiana di Scienza e
Tecnologia”
keeping as root of our scientific and
technological tradition the logo “AIV”, intials of
the former name. Since than, the society opened
its frontiers to new paradigms and disciplines
like biomaterials interfaces, bio-nano science
and technologies and others. The society has
been very active in IUVSTA partecipating to
the activities and supporting the organisation
structure of the Union. It presented two bids for
the IVC organisation: the first in 1998 with the
succesfull candidacy of Venice for the IVC16, the
latter, not succesfull, in 2013 presenting Genova
as the venue for the IVC19.
AIV contributed to IUVSTA several officers: two
Presidents (Ugo Valbusa 2004-2007 and Mariano
Anderle 2013-2016), three Scientific Directors
(Ugo Valbusa 1995-2001, Massimo Sancrotti
2001-2004 and Mariano Anderle 2007-2010)
and two Scientific Secretaries (Ugo Valbusa
1992-1995 and Massimo Sancrotti 1998-2001).
In the last twenty years a relevant number
of responsibilities inside of Scientific Division
Committees and Executive Council Committees
of IUSTA have been assigned to AIV members:
Chair of Congress Planning Committee (Massimo
Sancrotti, Mariano Anderle and Fabio Mazzolini),
Chair of Vacuum Division (Fabio Mazzolini),
vice-Chair of Applied Surface Science Division
(Mariano Anderle), Chair of Thin Film Division
(Alberto Tagliaferro and Francesco Fracassi),
Chair of Long Range Planning Committee
(Mariano Anderle and Ugo Valbusa), Chair of
Biointerfaces Division (Giacomo Ceccone).
AIV First Chairman: Ing. P. della Porta
AIV people
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