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Stockholm, August 13-17, 1984. On both these
occasions, the Swedish Vacuum Society also
hosted Executive Council Meetings of IUVSTA.
ECOSS-12 was organised in Stockholm in
1991 with Nils Mårtensson as general chair.
About 500 scientists attended the conference
representing 30 different countries.
In the early 1990’s our vacuum society was
bidding to host the European VacuumConference
(EVC) and in June 1994 EVC-4, chaired by Lars
Westerberg, and supported by a local organising
committee of Jan-Otto Carlsson, Ulf Karlsson
and Nils Mårtensson, was held in Uppsala for
3 days and continued on a cruise ship back
and forth from Stockholm to Helsinki with all
350 participants. The meeting was held together
with the Swedish Vacuum Meeting (SVM-1),
which was focused on thin films, surface science
and vacuum science. This combination was a
clear success and the meeting has since been
held every third year, in Linköping 1997, chaired
by L. Hultman, and in Göteborg 2000, chaired by
L. Walldén. The acronym SVM is still the same,
but the name has changed to the Swedish
Vacuum and Materials science meeting. We
celebrated the 25-year anniversary of SVS at
the meeting in 1997 in Linköping. Several of the
pioneers came to this meeting.
In 1997 SVS hosted an IUVSTA workshop
on “Outgassing of materials”, co-chaired by
B. Hjörvarsson and L. Westerberg. The Venue
was Gräftåvallen, a ski resort in Midwest Sweden.
High-level vacuum courses were organised in
cooperation with IUVSTA and/or AVS in 1994,
1997 and 2000. We have participated in a
meeting of European vacuum society presidents
organised by the French Vacuum Society and we
have organised a similar meeting in 1997. These
meetings have been very useful when planning
for new activities.
To emphasize the role of Materials Science, the
name of the society in Swedish was changed in
June 2005 from Svenska Vakuumsällskapet to
Förening för Vakuumteknik ochMaterialvetenskap
(FVMV), in English A Society for Vacuum
Technology and Materials Science.
NANO-7 was organised in Malmö in June-July
2002. ECOSS-21 was organised together with
this event in cooperation with Danish scientists.
We organised TATF’2002 in South Sweden in
cooperation with Germany and France. ICTF-13/
ACSIN-8 was arranged in Stockholm in 2005
with over 600 participants – Ulf Karlsson was
general chair and Roger Wäppling was co-chair.
Our society was hosting the IUVSTA IVC-17/
ICSS-13/ICN+T 2007/NC66-6/NSM-22/SVM-4
in Stockholm in 2007 about 2,000 participants
from 58 countries. There were 138 invited
speakers and in total 1784 presentations in
up to 16 parallel sessions. The exhibition had
69 exhibiting companies. Lars Westerberg was
General Chair, and Ulf Karlsson was Program
Chair. Several of the invited speakers have later
received the Nobel Price and or other outstanding
awards. The conference also introduced special
sessions on Free Electron Lasers and other
large-scale research infrastructures, such as
synchrotron radiation sources and neutron
scattering laboratories.
Present situation and future developments.
The Society is now planning for the IVC-21
to be held in Malmö July 1-5 2019 with Per
Omling as General Chair, Lars Samuelson
and Ulf Karlsson as Co-chairs and with Heiner
Linke as Program Chair. The IVC-21 will follow
the tradition of previous IVC conferences with a
broad programme, exhibitions and courses, but
we will put a strong focus on Material Science,
Nanotechnology and Science based on Large
Scale Infrastructures. More information about the
IVC-21 can be found on
The current membership of the Swedish Vacuum
Society is approximately 170 and 5 supporting
companies. One member of the BoD is appointed
by the supporting companies. The editor of the
news bulletin and the vacuum course director are
coopted to the Board of Directors if they are not
already members in another capacity.
Acknowledgement.
The author wants to thank Lars Johansson and
Ulf Karlsson for valuable comments.
16th IUVSTA workshop on outgassing. Excursion over the
mountain by snow scooter. (Photo L. Westerberg)
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