Dear IUVSTA Colleagues,

Issue #172 was divided in two parts because of the considerable length and number of the submitted documents and articles. The current part 1 includes the report by the Secretary General on the ECM 121 as well as important calls, with deadlines, for activities to be completed in 2016. Part 2, containing the remainder of the submitted articles, will follow shortly.

http://iuvsta.org/iuvsta2/assets/docs/bulletin/news_bulletin_172_part1.pdf

The contents of Part 1 is as follows:
Executive Council Meeting 121, Hotel Holiday Inn Express, Morgan Hill, CA, USA ………….….… 2

A PREVIEW TO THE YEAR 2016 – ECM 122, IVC 20, and GM 19 ……………………………………………. 4

CANDIDATES FOR IUVSTA PRIZES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ………………………..…………..…. 5

CANDIDATES FOR IUVSTA PRESIDENT ELECT ……………………………………………………….…….……….… 6

NOMINATION OF DELEGATES TO GM 19 ………………………………………………………………………………. 7

NOMINATION OF COUNCILLORS, ALTERNATES, AND DIVISIONAL REPRESENTATIVES ……..….… 7

BIDS FOR IVC 22 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 8

Part 2 of IUVSTA News Bulletin Issue 172 with the following Contents

http://iuvsta.org/iuvsta2/assets/docs/bulletin/news_bulletin_172_part2v2.pdf

Scientific Director Comments for the News Bulletin  …………….……………………………….………….….… 2

Executive Council Meeting 122, INL, Braga, Portugal  …………………………………………….………………. 3

14th IUVSTA School on Nano-Optics; from Principles to Basic Research and Applications     …….. 4

20th International Vacuum Congress, Busan Korea …………………………………………….………….……… 5

European Conference on Surface Science …………………………… …………………………….…..……….….… 8

Joint ICMCTF-SVC workshop STRESS 2016 ……………………………………………………………….…..….…. 9

Activity Report for the VASSCAA-7 ………………………………………….………………………………….…….…. 10

78th IUVSTA workshop, October 5 to 9, 2015 in Braga, Portugal      …………………………………….…… 12

Report on Pakistan Vacuum Society event    ……………………………………………………………..……………. 13

Brazilian Vacuum Society event    ……………………..…………………………………………………………………… 15

AVS 62 Summary …………………………………………..……………………………………………………………..…….. 16

IUVSTA News Bulletin Issue 172, Part 1&2