The school was a continuation of the traditional and highly successful series of summer schools held every three years in the Czech Republic. The school brought together 136 people (17 speakers, 94 participants and 25 company representatives) from 19 countries (Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, The Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA).
The school was supported by International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA), Czech Vacuum Society and Czech Physical Society and a group of the Czech academic research institutes and universities.
CD-ROM proceedings of the school, containing the presentations from the school, posters, list of contacts to the lecturers, participants and participating industry etc was prepared and distributed to the school participants.
For more details see About the school.
We would like to thank the speakers, participants, sponsors and everybody else involved for the successful school.
On behalf of the school organizers
Antonín Fejfar (school co-chair)
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Tomáš Šikola (school co-chair)
Institute of Physical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Brno University of Technology, Technická 2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic
And
Aliaksei Vetushka (school webmaster)
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Cukrovarnická 10, 162 53 Prague 6, Czech Republic
