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The General Chair of the Congress
was Massimo Sancrotti and the Chair
of the Program Committee was Ugo
Valbusa. The congress was marked by
two special features: an International
Workshop on Science, Technology and
Cultural Heritage was held between
29 June and 1 July and a special session
dedicated to technology transfer was
held on 1 July.
The latter, named the STD Initiative on
Technology Transfer, was organised by
Massimo Sancrotti with 8 invited speakers
coming from Italy, Swiss, Germany, USA
and Japan. There was a total of over
1400 attendees, including 5 plenary
speakers and 105 invited speakers. There
were 55 countries represented among the
participants. The largest number came
from Italy, then from Japan, Germany and
France, with the number from each of the
other countries being less than 100 each.
Contributions were presented in 5 plenary,
92 oral (including 25 joints) and 4 poster
sessions. There were 63 exhibitors at
the Equipment Exhibition, which was
coordinated by Joris Cinquetti. At the
conclusion of the congress the organisers
made a donation of SFr 60,000 to the
IUVSTA.
As a consequence, the 17
th
International
Vacuum Congress (IVC-17) and 13
th
Inter
national Conference on Solid Surfaces
(ICSS-13) were hosted by the Swedish
Vacuum Society in conjunction with the
International Conference on Nanometer
Science and Technology (ICN+T 2007).
Three local conferences also joined: the
6
th
Nordic Conference on Surface Science
(NCSS-6), the 22
nd
Nordic Semiconductor
Meeting (NSM-22) and the 4
th
Swedish
Meeting on Vacuum and Material Science
(SVM-4). These meetings were held from
2 to 6 July 2007 at Stockholm International
Fairs in Stockholm, Sweden. The General
Chair was Lars Westerberg and the
Chair of the Program Committee was
Ulf Karlson. The non-scientific aspects
of the congress were handled by a
conference organisation company, Congrex
Sweden AB. The congress has close to
2000 participants from 58 countries. The
largest number came from Sweden, then
from Japan and Germany, with the number
from each of the other countries being
less than 80 each. 5 plenary, more than
700 oral (including 138 invited) and over
1000 poster contributions were presented
during the conference. Special sessions
were held on education, fusion plasma,
advanced light sources, nanowires and low-
temperature scanning probe microscopy.
The Proceedings were published in the
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, but
covered only 358 presentations. A large
exhibition of scientific equipment was held
with 69 exhibitors. After the congress the
Swedish Vacuum Society made a donation
of SFr 60,000 to the IUVSTA.
The 18
th
International Vacuum Congress
(IVC-18) and the 14
th
International Confe
rence on Solid Surfaces (ICSS-14) were
hosted for the first time by the Chinese
Vacuum Society at the Beijing International
Convention Centre in Beijing, Popular Repu
blic of China, from 23 to 27 August 2010.
These meetings were held in conjunction
with the International Conference on
Nanometer Science and Technology (ICN+T
2010) and the 5
th
Vacuum and Surface
In 2006, due to a strong overlap
between topics covered by the
International Vacuum Congress
and the International Conference
on Nanometer-Scale Science and
Technology (which merged with
the International Conference on
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and
Spectroscopy to form the Interna
tional Conference on Nanometer
Science and Technology (ICN+T)),
it has been decided to join IVC and
ICN+T when they were scheduled to
be held the same year.