Speakers

Plenary Speakers

• John Colligon (University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK)

Ions, surfaces and thin films: 55 years of pressure-free study

This is the John Yarwood Memorial lecture which is associated with the 2015 British Vacuum Council Senior Prize awarded to John Colligon "for distinguished research in ion-surface interactions and its application to coatings and novel materials"

• Vincent Baglin (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

The LHC vacuum system: Operation, challenges and upgrades

• Vladimír Matolin (Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)

PVD of advanced nano-catalysts for sustainable energetics

• Alberto Morgante (CNR-IOM, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy)

       Ultrafast charge injection at complex interfaces: organic-organic, organic-inorganic and organic-graphene

• Hans-Peter Steinrück (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany)

In situ studies of surface reactions - from small molecules to liquid organic hydrogen carriers

Invited Speakers

• Eric Daniel Glowacki (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria)

Nature-inspired organic hydrogen-bonded thin films for sustainable and biocompatible electronics

• Wolfgang Werner (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)

Managing low energy electrons (LEE): emission from solids, analytical probes, generation (or avoidance!) for technological applications

• Frank Moerman (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

Hygienic design of vacuum systems for the food industry

• Mile Ivanda (Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)

Development and applications of silicon nanostructuring

• Marin Petrović (Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia)

Epitaxial graphene hybrids - beyond a 2D sheet of carbon

• Jiří Červenka (Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic)

Graphene field-effect transistors as molecule specific probes of molecules

• Jiří Tesař (Czech Metrology Institute, Brno, Czech Republic)

Modern methods of XHV metrology

• Jakub Drnec (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)

From vacuum to fuel cells

• Stefan Wilfert (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany)

Challenges in the development of the vacuum system of the heavy ion synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR

• Volker Rohde (Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany)

        ASDEX Upgrade: vacuum systems at a midsize tokamak experiment

• Wladimir Sabuga (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany)

Industrial standards in the intermediate pressure-to-vacuum range – outline of a European joint research project

• Levente Tapasztó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Energy Research, Budapest, Hungary)

Revealing the atomic and electronic structure of 2D crystals by scanning tunneling microscopy

• Dezső Beke (University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)

Peculiarities of diffusion and solid state reactions on nanoscale in thin films and multilayers

• Aleksander Drenik (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Study of plasma-wall interaction in fusion devices by residual gas analysis

• Matjaž Panjan (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Magnetron sputtering: Why is magnetron plasma organized in dense, periodic regions?

• Jaroslav Bruncko (International Laser Centre, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Pulsed laser deposition of transparent conductive oxides based on ZnO

• Ivo Vavra (Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)

     Nanoporous metallic films for catalysis

• Kilian Marti (Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Bern, Switzerland)

Effect of vacuum-air transfer on new materials used for mass standards

• Corey Stambaugh (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

Bridging the great pressure divide with magnetic suspension: Vacuum-air mass metrology at NIST

• Jack Stone (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA)

Picometers  to pascals: Dimensional measurements and  new photonic pressure standards