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The Surfaces and Interfaces Section Committee has recently met on the occa­ sion of the big vacuum and surface jam­ boree in Cannes. This latter congress, which unified the International Vacuum Congress (IVC), the International Con­ ference on Solid Surfaces (ICSS), and the European Conference on Solid Surfaces (ECOSS), will certainly remain in the memories of the participants. Cannes was beautiful as usual, but in spite of a written agreement dated 1977, the conference with 1500 participants could not be held in the "Palais des Festivals" (situated convenient­ ly for the beach and close to the city cen­ tre) and at a few days notice, was transfer­ red to an agglomeration of circus tents out­ side the city, in the immediate vicinity of the local airport. The organizers did their best to remedy the situation, for example by offering a free bar, which was a real relief at temperatures above 30° C, in the "exhibition tents", and by providing an ex­ tra lunch tent. For some of us, it was an ex­ citing experience to see celebrities of science enjoying their lunch from the asphalt ground of a public parking lot. In the lecture tents, where the unusual acoustics allowed us to listen to two lec­ tures simultaneously, we were not surpris­ ed to see participants wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Circus — Non Merci". In spite of the adverse circumstances, the scientific and technical standard of the conference remained at a high level, but at the Surface and Interface Section Commit­ tee the question was raised as to whether the combination of ECOSS and the Vacuum Congress is desirable in the future. Remember that IVC and ICSS are sponsored by IUVSTA, the International Union of Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications. ECOSS, on the other hand, originated historically from annual national surface science meetings held in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and is cooperatively sponsored by IUVSTA and the EPS Surfaces and In­ terfaces Section. While ICSS emphasizes a three-yearly evaluation of the progress in the field, ECOSS concentrates on recent results and current research. For ECOSS participants, the marriage with the big vacuum congress had some unpleasant consequences such as very early submis­ sion deadlines, high cost, and a change in the proceedings series. With these points in mind, the Committee passed a resolution not to combine ECOSS with the next IVC/ ICSS to be held in Madrid in 1983. As it was felt undesirable to have two suprana­ tional surface science meetings in Europe in 1983, the Committee recommended that no ECOSS be held in that year and to restart the series by ECOSS 6 in the spring of 1984. Another topic discussed during the Committee meeting was the organization and sponsoring of Europhysics summer schools and study meetings. In 1981 a time-slot for a summer school was offered to the Section in the "Ettore Majorana" Centre in Erice, Sicily. A tentative pro­ gramme for such a school was forwarded to the Centre earlier and accepted. The Committee was very happy to find two ex­ perienced scientists who agreed to direct the course, namely G. Benedek, Milan and U. Valbusa, Genoa. The summer school has the provisional title "Dynamics of GasSurface Interactions" and will take place in the first two weeks of July 1981. It will cover a wide range of experimental and theoretical aspects of the gas-surface in­ teraction, with an emphasis on dynamical problems in the scattering process, presen­ ted by scientists of international reputa­ tion. For further information, please con­ tact one of the course directors :

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