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Science Conference of Asia and Australia
(VASSCAA-5). The General Chair of the
Congress was Jianguo Hou who also acted
as Chair of the Program Committee.
Session topics were organised in 9 sub-
conferences, following the IUVSTA divisional
structure, with an additional sub-conference
dedicated to biointerfaces. The total expected
number of presentations was1477. Of the
presentations 814 were oral communications
(including 5 Plenary, 17 Conference Plenary,
32 Keynote and 125 Invited Speakers) and
663 were posters. 576 communications
were originating from China, 369 from
Europe, 152 from Japan, 78 from USA,
68 from Korea and 234 from the rest of
the world. The conference was successful
in spite of an unexpected number of no-
show. In addition to the scientific program,
there was a very large and comprehensive
exhibition which attracted 139 exhibitors.
After the congress the Chinese Vacuum
Society made a donation of USD 40,000 to
the IUVSTA.
The 19
th
International Vacuum Congress
(IVC-19) and the 15
th
International Confe
rence on Solid Surfaces (ICSS-15) were
held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris,
France, on 9-13 September 2013, again
in conjunction with the International
Conference on Nanoscience and Techno
logy (ICN+T 2013). Four smaller international
meetings were associated: Innovations in
Thin Film Processing and Characterisation
(ITFPC 2013), Magnetron, Ion processing
& Arc Technologies European Conference
(MIATEC 2013), the 19
th
International
Colloquium on Plasma Processes (CIP
2013) and Reactive Sputter Deposition
(RSD 2013).
A feature of this congress was that, for
the first time in the history of IUVSTA,
it was organised by a consortium of
9 European Vacuum Societies from
Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic,
France, Great Britain, Hungary,
Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia. The
General Chair of the Congress was
M-G. Barthés-Labrousse (F) and the
Chair of the Program Committee was
F. Reniers (B).The non-scientific aspects
of the conference and the associated
exhibition were handled by the French
VacuumSociety on behalf of all partners.
IVC-19 - Paris,
France
SUMMARY