Surface Science Division Report for ECM-85

As activities of SS Division after ECM-84, we have following items,

We had a Divisional Meeting on Sept. 21, 1999 during ECOSS-18 in Vienna, Austria. Its agenda were SSDC Report, Division report for ECM-83 and -84, Plans for IVC-15, ICSS-11, Report on ECOSS-18, Future ECOSS meetings, Report on VASSCAA-1 and other business. Details can be seen in the minutes <link> also in the same website.

2) Reports on IUVSTA workshops related with SSD (details can be seen in workshops of IUVSTA website http://iuvsta.vacuum.org/iuvsta/)
25th Gas-surface interactions, Leibnitz, Austria, September 26-29, 1999 was successfully organized by A. Winkler.
26th Surface holography and other direct methods, Hong Kong, China, August 15-18, 2000 by S. Y. Tong.
27th Dynamical phenomena related with electrons at surfaces, Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan,January 28-31,2001, by Y. Murata.
28th Ion beam techniques for the analysis of composition and structure with atomic layer resolution, Oxford, UK, June 26-30, 2000, by J. O'Connor.
32nd Gas-surface interactions, St Petersburg, September25-29, 2000, by A. K. Rebrov. This workshop has been approved in the STD meeting associated with ECM-85 as 32nd IUVSTA workshop.

3) Statute of SSD, which had been approved in the previous SSDC, was approved on December 1, 1999 by all the SSD colleges.

4) IPC (International Program Committee) of SS for IVC-15, ICSS-11 was determined in a different manner from that of the previous IVC, ICSS.

5) ECOSS-18 was successfully held from September from September 21 to 24, 1999 in Vienna, Austria. ECOSS-19 will be held from September 5 to 8, 2000 in Madrid, Spain and ECOSS-20 will be in 2001 in Krakow, Poland.

Akio Yoshimori and John Weaver
Cochairs of SSDC

Divisions