Vacuum News

The MacRobert Award. ‘Prestel’ 5 December 1979, a publication from Post Office Central Headquarters, 23 Howland Street, London Wl P 6HQ UK.

Pennant (The BOC group newspaper) No 49, September 1979 and No 50, October 1979.

Culham Laboratory Annual Report 1978. UKAEA Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX1 4 3D6, UK.

International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA), News Bulletin, No 73.

Kratos Newsletter, Surface Science Issue 2, Kratos Ltd. Barton Dock Road, Urmston, Manchester M31 2LD. UK.

Vat News. Vol 10, No 2, June 1979, the bulletin of the Indian Vacuum Society.

La Termotecnica, Vol 33, No 7, July 1979, No 8, August 1979, Journal of Engineering Physics (in Russian), Vol 37, Nos 3, 4 and No 9, September 1979 and No 10, October 1979. 5 (1979).

Conferencesandgroupactivities Applied surface analysis The 2nd Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis will be held 1 l-l 3 June 1980 at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Topics will include, but are not limited to, corrosion and oxidation, adhesion and composites, electronic devices, energy conversion, thin films, thermionic emission, catalysis, and measurement techniques. The symposium will consist of both invited and contributed papers. The proceedings will be published in a special issue of Applications of Surface Science. The symposium will be preceded by a one-day short course ‘Techniques for Surface Analysis’ on 10 June 1980.

Any further information can be ootained from either of the following :

Dr J T Grant, University of Dayton, Research Institute, Dayton, OH 45469, USA

Dr T W Haas, AFML/MBM. Wright-Patterson AF8, OH 45433, USA.

Forthcoming conferences arranged by the Institute of Physics Low Energy Ion Beams-2, 14-l 7 April 1980 at the University of Bath.

Optics ‘80, 1 O-l 2 September 1980 at UMIST.

Further information from The Meetings Officer, The Institute of Physics, 47 Belgrave Square, London SW1 X 80X, UK.

EUROCHEM 80 already has 25% more to see An important milestone in the development of EUROCHEM 80, the Second International Chemical b Process Engineering Show and Conference next 23-27 July, came this week with the announcement that the original stand allocation in the giant Hall 5 at the National Exhibition Centre is now heavily over-subscribed. To accommodate additional exhibitor pressure, still rising as the event draws closer, extra floorspace has been negotiated in Hall 4- immediately nearly 30% allocated, Eight months ahead, EUROCHEM 80 is 25% bigger than its 1977 predecessor with over 16,000 m2 fully booked compared with the previous 13,000. Over 25% is taken by overseas suppliers determined to expand into UK markets. Prominent among foreign stands at EUROCHEM for the second time are Demag, Sulzer, KSB, Amafilter and Argus. Newcomers from overseas include Voest Alpine, Kennemer Van Tongeren, Uddeholm, Buhler Miag and Euroform. There is also a big joint venture of Dutch suppliers. As it is continental exhibiting practice for top directors and owners to serve at the major international trade fairs, EUROCHEM 80 is a unique opportunity to make personal contact with some of the world’s most powerful suppliers to the chemical and processing industries, ranging from

petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals through plastics, foodstuffs, fertilizers, textiles, metal finishing, steel and paper-making to gas, water and electricity supplies. On average, returning exhibitors are taking stands 20% larger, such is the confidence they now feel in the world-class event. Among them are APV, Alfa Laval, Corning, Worthington Simpson and Petrocarbon Developments. British newcomers among the 350 exhibitors to date include Robert Jenkins, NEl. BSC Stainless, Gray Tool and Thomas Broadbent. The concurrent conference provides a major boost to EUROCHEM’s international ambitions with the news that the event is now endorsed by EFCE, the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. Details of the extensive programme of half-day sessions will be announced in the New Year.

IXth International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum 16-l 9 September 1980, Conference Centre ‘De Koningshof’, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Details from Mrs Hanneke Hop, Holec Switchgear Group, Research Department, PO Box 23, 7550 AA Hengelo, The Netherlands.

34th Annual Frequency Control Symposium 28-30 May 1980, Marriot Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Details from Dept of the Army, US Army Electronics Research and Development Command, DELET-MF, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703, USA.

New dates for British Hospitals and Medical Exhibition New dates have been announced for Britain’s major international health-care exhibition, the British Hospitals and Medical Exhibition, which is to be held at Olympia, London at the beginning of June 1980. Because of the likely attendance of a large number of overseas visitors, the exhibition will open a day earlier than originally planned and now runs from Monday, 2nd June to Friday, 6th June 1980. According to the exhibition’s organizers, Fairs and Exhibitions Limited, over 80% of all available space in the Grand and West Halls at Olympia has already been sold. Exhibitors include all the major manufacturers and suppliers of hospital equipment companies. Overseas participants include individual company and group stands from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy and the USA.

The British Hospitals and Medical Exhibition is Britain’s longest established exhibition for those involved in hospital and health-care. It is sponsored by the Institute of Health Service Administrators and supported by the DHSS and all the main trade, professional and employee organizations in the field. The 1980 Exhibition will

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