Bratislava,
Slovakia
Report
the Meeting of the IUVSTA-Surface
Science Divisional Committee on
Sunday 22 March 1998 at 08:30-09:30 at
Hotel Tatra 1)
IUVSTA Workshops: The 18th IUVSTA workshop on "Diffusion
and growth in ultra thin surface films" was held in Australia,
November 1997. It was reported to have been very successful. A written
report follows. The 19th
IUVSTA workshop on "Surface chemistry on the nanoscopic scale",
The Netherlands, September, 1997 was reported to have been very successful.
A written report follows. A proposal
to have a workshop on "Gettering Materials:Principles and Uses"
was received with great interest. Organisers are M. Sancrotti and L.Westerberg.
Supporting divisions will be Surface Science, Vacuum Metallurgy, and
Vacuum Science. The Surface Science endorses this workshop provided
the Surface Science part of the workshop is discussed in more detail
and expanded. The workshop on "Dynamical phenomena related to electrons
at surfaces", to be held in 2000 in Japan in the next triennium
was again endorsed. Further reports on some of these workshops can be
found at the IUVSTA-WWW site. 2)
IUVSTA Sponsorship was granted the "Vibrations at Surfaces"
using the new procedure. It was again pointed out that SSDC
members should actively try to interest more meetings in IUVSTA sponsorship.
The chairman will write to the organiser of the ICSFS-9 to ask if better
coordination of that meeting with the IUVSTA supported meetings can
be achieved. IUVSTA sponsorship was encouraged for the First Vacuum
and Surface Science Conference of Asia and Australia (VASSCAA-1). It
was noted that the proposed date does not clash with ECOSS-18 in Vienna,
Austria on September 21-24, 1999. The SSDC supports it that this meeting
will be taken up as a general IUVSTA meeting. 3)
A final report by Prof. Poelsema on ECOSS17 was summarised.
The final report follows this report. The status
of the ICSS-10 at Birmingham was found to be excellent. Abstracts for
544 contributed papers have been received for the SS programme. This
means that the Surface Science programme is considerably bigger than
at ECOSS-17 (460) and ICSS-9 and ICSS-8. The programme will be built
next week, and can be found at the site: http://www.iop.org/IOP/Confs/IVC/.
The proposal for the Proceedings of IVC15 as provided by the AVS was
endorsed. It was recommended to give space for a one page extended abstract
(not refereed) in the virtual proceedings, maintaining the proposed
links. 4)
The statutes for the SSD as circulated recently were endorsed. 5)
Concerning the next SSDC the chairman noted that he will write
to the members of the new electoral college, that he strongly recommends
them to vote for the current vice-chair, Prof. Weaver, as chair to ensure
continuity. The vote for the new vice-chair should result in the chair
for the triennium starting in 2001. 6)
The next SSDC meeting will be held at IVC-14/ICSS-10, preferably
not during a Surface Science session. 7)
The chairman asked if the electronic communication was an efficient
way of distributing information in the Committee. It was concluded that
this was the case. No information is sent to members of the electoral
college, because no requests for information have been received at the
beginning of this triennium. Aart
W. Kleyn,chair SSDC 21 March/11 August 1998 |