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Some Divisions are also responsible
for organising, together with a host
nation, the technical programs of
those conferences which are part of an
IUVSTA conference series. Currently the
Surface Science Division is responsible
for the International Conference on
Solid Surfaces (ICSS), which is held
concurrently with the triennial IVC. This
Division is also responsible for the
European Conference on Surface
Science (ECOSS) series (together with
the European Physical Society) and
for the Vacuum and Surface Science
Conference of Asia and Australia
(VASSCA) series. TheThin Film Division
is responsible for the International
Conference on Thin Films (ICTF)
series. The Vacuum Science Division is
responsible for the European Vacuum
Conference (EVC) series. The origins of
these conference series are as follows.
As discussed above, the ICSS had its
origin at the 5
th
International Vacuum
Congress (IVC) in Boston in 1971 when
it was organised by the Surface Science
Division of the AVS. This conference was
so successful that it has been continued
as a series. The IUVSTA’s Surface Science
Division now has the responsibility, together
with the host nation, for organising the
conference every three years in conjunction
with the IVC. In fact the ICSS represents
the Surface Science component of the IVC
and is comprised of the Surface Science
papers presented at the combined IVC
and ICSS meetings. The number of these
papers usually represents a substantial part
of the total number of papers presented at
the combined meeting, thus justifying the
decision to continue to acknowledge the
ICSS as an independent conference.
The ECOSS conference series was
established in Brest in 1975 by D. Degras
(F), G. Ertl (D), C. Todd (GB) and A. van
Oostrom (NL). The first four conferences
were held in their four countries in:
Amsterdam (1978), Cambridge (1979),
Cannes (1980) and Münster (1981) with
the third being held in conjunction with
IVC-8 and ICSS-4. Since ECOSS-2 this
conference series has been organised by
the Surface Science Division of IUVSTA
and the Surface and Interface Section
of the European Physical Society. The
conferences are held annually, except
(apart from 1980) in years in when the
triennial IVC/ICSS is held in Europe. Thirty
two of these conferences have now been
held with ECOSS-33 taking place in
Szeged, Hungary in 2017. They are listed
in Table V.
The Vacuum and Surface Science
Conference of Asia and Australia (VASSCAA)
was accepted as a conference series to
be co-organised by the Surface Science
Division, at ECM-90 in March 2002. The
series was initiated by an International
Steering Committee, chaired by Professor
A. Yoshimori (J) and comprised of
representatives of the vacuum societies of
Australia, China, India, Japan and Korea.
It was organised to create a significant
conference on vacuum, surfaces and related
sciences, techniques and applications
located in the Asia region and thus more
accessible to researchers in that area than
the traditional conferences in Europe and the
USA. The International Steering Committee
of VASSCAA, as of 2016, is comprised of
91
scientific conferences
including 32 ECOSS,
20 IVC, 17 ICTF, 14 EVC,
8VASSCAA congresses