SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

showing the increasing acknowledgement

of the multi-field nature of the research

being presented at these congresses. The

Proceedings of the congress were again

published in 4 volumes, using regular

archival journals as follows: SS in Surface

Science; ASS and EMP in Applied Surface

Science; TF and NS in Thin Solid Films; and

VS, VM and PST in Vacuum. Full registration

included two volumes of the Proceedings of

the registrant’s choice and cost 55,000 yen

(or 44,000 yen for early registration). Student

and one-day registrations were 24,000 and

15,000 yen, respectively and did not

include any volumes of the Proceedings.

This congress was held in conjunction

with the International Exhibition of Vacuum

Equipment which is a very well established

exhibition held annually in Japan and

organised by the Japan Vacuum Industry

Association. This was a very large and

comprehensive exhibition which attracted

many regular attendees in addition to

the congress delegates. With generous

support from the exhibition organisers, the

Vacuum Society of Japan was able to make

a donation of 5,000,000 yen (SFr 54,823) to

the IUVSTA. A very significant outcome from

this congress was that it brought the IVC/

ICSS triennial meeting to the attention of a

wide range of Japanese researchers and

resulted in over 300 Japanese attending the

following IUVSTA congress in Birmingham

in 1998.

The 14

International Vacuum Congress

and 10

International Conference on

Solid Surfaces were held in Birmingham,

UK, during the period from 31 August

to 4 September 1998. A feature of this

congress was that two further, well

established, meetings were incorporated

into the congress by combining them with

the programs being developed by two

of the IUVSTA Divisions. These were the

International Conference on Nanometer

Science and Technology (NANO-5) and the

International Conference onQuantitative

Surface Analysis (QSA-10). NANO-5 was

combined with the component of the

meeting run by the Nanometer Structures

Division and QSA-10 was combined

with the activities of the Applied Surface

Science Division. As usual, ICSS-10 was

the Surface Science Division’s component

of the meeting. The Congress was held

at the International Convention Centre in

Birmingham. It was hosted by the British

Vacuum Council (BVC) and co-organised by

the BVC and The Institute of Physics (IoP).

The latter also acted as the professional

congress management company. The Chair

of the Organising Committee was Professor

D. P. Woodruff and the Chair of the Program

Committee was Professor R. H. Williams.

There was a total of 1219 registrations,

including 826 full registrations, 107 one-

day registrations and 286 students. There

were 47 countries represented among the

participants. The largest number came

from Japan (321), then from the UK (236),

Germany (115), USA (60), France (52),

Netherlands (44), Italy (43), and Sweden

(39), with the number from each of the

other 39 countries being less than 30 each.

The total number of presentations was

1383 including 3 plenary and 69 invited

papers. Of the presentations 629 were oral

presentations and 754 were posters. In the

following breakdown of presentations by

Divisions the many joint sessions have been

apportioned to individual Divisions, leading

to apparent fractional numbers of papers:

184 ASS, 162.5 EMP, 175.5 NS, 45.5 PST,

527 SS, 163 TF, 33 VM and 92.5 VS. The

Proceedings were published in 4 volumes,

using regular archival journals as follows: SS

(ICSS-10) in Surface Science; ASS (QSA-

10) and NS (NANO-5) in Applied Surface

Science; TF and EMP in Thin Solid Films;

and PST, VM and VS in Vacuum. There were

81 exhibitors at the Equipment Exhibition

which occupied about 1800 square meters.

Full registration, which included one volume

(registrant’s choice) of the Proceedings,

cost GBP 330 (Pounds Sterling). Other

registration costs were: GBP 130 for one-

day registration, GBP 190 for students and

GBP 80 for accompanying persons. At the

conclusion of the congress the organisers

made a donation of GBP 25,000 (SFr

65,738) to the IUVSTA.