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History
In former Czechoslovakia, the community of
people working in the field of vacuum science,
technology and applications was represented in
IUVSTA, from1965, by the Czechoslovak National
Committee for Vacuum Science, Technique and
Applications. Two decades later, the Working
Group Vacuum Technology was founded in the
frame of the Czechoslovak Society for Science
and Technology. This Working Group organised
summer schools and seminars in vacuum
science and technology. Štefan Bederka was the
Slovak representative to this group.
After the splitting of Czechoslovakia into two
separate countries, the Czech Republic and
Slovak Republic, the Slovak Vacuum Society
(SVS) was established on April 5, 1993. Most of
the Slovakian members of the Working Group
Vacuum Technology became members of SVS.
The first president was elected, and Štefan
Bederka took this task. From the very beginning,
excellent professional contacts have existed
between the newly established Czech and
Slovak Vacuum Societies. Actually, both of the
National Vacuum Societies were created in close
co-operation between Slovakian and Czech
colleagues. Collaboration from the previous
period continues smoothly.
The Executive Council of IUVSTA held in Bled,
Slovenia recommended to incorporate the Slovak
Vacuum Society into IUVSTA. At the General
Meeting held on the occasion of the International
Vacuum Congress in Yokohama, Japan in
September 1995, the Slovak Vacuum Society
was formally accepted as a member of IUVSTA.
Since that time the SVS has been represented on
the Executive Council of IUVSTA by a Councillor
and Alternate Councillor. The SVS also nominates
a representative to each of the IUVSTA Scientific
Divisions. In 1998, the SVS hosted an Executive
Council Meeting of the IUVSTA in Bratislava, as
noted below. One should mention here Štefan
Luby and Robert Redhammer as SVS presidents.
For IUVSTA activities also Marian Vesely and
Andrej Vincze should be mentioned. The last one
mentioned is IUVSTA Scientific Secretary in this
triennium. The Secretary of SVS was and still is
Viera Dubravcova.
The membership in SVS is individual or collective.
Collective members are Universities and Institutes
of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and industrial
companies. At present, SVS has 52 individual
members. Between General Meetings, the
activities of SVS are steered by the Committee
elected for three years. The scientific structure of
SVS follows the divisional structure of IUVSTA.
Events Organised by SVS
The most notable meetings hosted by the SVS
since its foundation in 1993 have been:
• The 3rdBratislava Days on Molecular Beam
Epitaxy, May 16-17, 1996.
• The “Summer School of Vacuum Physics”,
June 16-19, 1997, held in Modra, and
organised jointly with the Czech Vacuum
Society (CVS).
• The “80thExecutive Committee Meeting
of IUVSTA”, and a Seminar on “Thin Film
Nucleation, Growth and Analysis”, March
20-24, 1998, both held in Bratislava.
• A “School of Vacuum Technology”, June 1-4,
1998, held in Ziarska Valley, and organised
jointly with CVS.
• A “School of Vacuum Technology”, May 24-27,
1999, held in Bystrianska Valley, and organised
jointly with CVS.
• A “Summer School of Vacuum Technology
2000”, May 15-18, 2000, held in the Sumava
Mountains, and organised jointly with CVS.
• SVS overtook organisation of ICTF12 and
hosted it in Bratislava on September 1-6, 2002.
• The ECM 91 was also organised by SVS in
Smolenice near Bratislava on September
12-15, 2002.
• The JVC 13 held in Strbske Pleso, High Tatras
was organised by SVS on June 20-25, 2010.
• ECM 114 on September 28-30, 2012 together
with IUVSTA Highlight Seminars focused
THE SLOVAK VACUUM SOCIETY
Slovenská vákuová spolocnost (SVS)
Robert Redhammer, Andrej Vincze, Viera Dubravcova
and Marian Vesely