SURFACE CANADA '95
The XVth Canadian Conference on Surface Science
Special Symposium: 25 Years of Progress in Surface Science
The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Tel: 519/888-4567 ext 5826 Fax: 519/746-0435 E-mail: Tong@UWaterloo.CA
LATEST NEWS
May 5, 1995
We have recently received the following announcement from one of our
Exhibitors... "Digital Instruments and Systems for Research Corp. are
pleased to extend an open invitation to Surface Canada'95 attendees to
come and see Digital Instrument's world class AFM NanoScope IIIa multimode
Microscope. Participants are encouraged to bring their samples (up to
15 mm in dia.) to be run on the NanoScope. Due to the expected
interest in the NanoScope IIIa, we strongly recommend interested
individuals with samples to contact Art or Mark Priebe at 1-800-565-8068
or Fax 613-832-4102 prior to the beginning of the Conference. -- Art
Priebe, Systems for Research"
April 20, 1995
At this time, we are pleased to report that Surface Canada '95 is going to
be one of the largest Surface Canada meetings in recent past. We
have over 150 participants, with 74 contributed papers (posters) and 42
talks. To accommodate the large turnout, we have to run two parallel
sessions for the Hot Topics (where this year's Hobson prize winners will
be selected). In addition to the long list of impressive invited speakers
from both Canada and overseas, we also have three plenary talks (instead
of the nominal one in past Surface Canada meetings), which will be given
by Dr. Charles Duke (Xerox), Professor Gabor Somorjai (Berkeley), and Dr.
Franz Himpsel (IBM). The main event of this year's meeting is of course
the Special Symposium to celebrate the 25th birthday of Progress in
Surface Science. My colleague and editor of this important journal,
Professor Syd Davison, will chair this session and indeed an exceptional
list of speakers has been arranged.
The Final Announcement and Program has been mailed out to all
the registrants. I wish to take this opportunity to remind those who
submitted "faxed" copies of the abstracts to send us the "good"
camera-ready copies as soon as possible. The faxed copies are not of
sufficient quality for reproduction purposes. We have also included in
the mailing package an order form for Commemorative T-shirt, which
will not be available anywhere else. We are fortunate enough to be given
the permission to use Peter Aliknak's Devil Fishes artwork as the
conference logo. Syd will explain why we choose this particular artwork
as the logo during the conference.
In summary, I look forward to meeting all of you soon. If you have any
question, please don't hesitate to contact me.
March 19, 1995
A short note to remind you to send in your abstracts. We wish to keep a
"firm" deadline for the abstracts, which are due on March 24, 1995.
This will give us about two weeks to configure the program and mail it out
to the participants. Please send in two copies of the one-page
camera-ready abstract. The format for the abstract is given in the second
announcement.
March 7, 1995
If you have not done so already, I wish to remind you to register for the
upcoming Surface Canada meeting, to be held at Waterloo on May 25-27,
1995. We have extended the registration deadline to March 17 and are
still accepting the registration at the " regular" rates. We and the
Division of Surface Science need your support, so please send yourself
and/or your group. I believe the younger members (postdoc's and graduate
students) of our Division will benefit from meeting some of the big men in
Surface Science featured in this meeting.
I look forward to meeting you at Waterloo in May and to learning more about your research area.
Tong Leung
March 7, 1995
Last update: 6-Mar-95, Tong