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the 6th International Conference on Solid
Surfaces and the 33rd National Vacuum
Symposium of the American Vacuum
Society were held jointly on 26-31 October
1986 at the Baltimore Convention Center, in
Baltimore, USA. The sponsorship of IUPAP
was obtained for these meetings. The
Chairs of the Organising Committee and the
Program Committee were L. C. Beavis and
T. E. Madey respectively. This congress was
marked by a number of special features.
It was the first at which sessions were
devoted to Applied Surface Science, which
had been organised through the Steering
Committee of the newly formed IUVSTA
Division. It was the first at which joint
sessions were held to highlight the fact that
much research spanned the fields of more
than one Division.
It was also the first IUVSTA congress for
which a computer-based system was
used for indexing, sorting and filing the
abstracts. Various categories of registration
were offered and the attendance
included 1414 full registrations, 150 one-
day registrations, 246 students and
40 companions. In all, 34 countries were
represented. There were 99 plenary and
invited papers, 506 contributed papers and
245 poster presentations.
The breakdown of these by Divisions (see
Table IV for Division identification) was:
102 ASS, 112 EMP, 40 FT, 262 SS, 165 TF,
35 VM, 128 VS and 16 New Products (not
an IUVSTA Division). The Proceedings were
published in the AVS’s own journal, the
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
(JVST). These were free to AVS members,
who receive the journal. To others the cost
was US$ 40 for soft cover and US$ 75 for
hard cover binding. Full fee registration cost
US$ 240 and one-day registration US$ 120.
Students were encouraged with a low
registration fee of US$ 10 and companions
paid US$ 30. An excellent exhibition by
equipment manufacturers was held during the
congress. At the conclusion of the congress,
the AVS made a donation of US$ 25,000 (SFr
43,245 at the then- current conversion rate
to Swiss Francs) to the IUVSTA as forecast
in their original offer to host the meetings but
they then made a further donation of SFr
123,124 to the Union. This had arisen from
an overestimation of the number of pages
to be published in the Proceedings and the
AVS Board voted to share this unexpected
windfall with the IUVSTA. This very generous
additional donation produced a significant
increase in the Reserve Funds of the IUVSTA
with on-going benefit in terms of interest and
investment potential.
RSD-MIATEC conference 2015 - Paris, France
Matthias DREMEL,
ITER Organisation
Espedito VASSALLO
(AIV)
Ivan PETROV
(AVS)
SUMMARY