A decade of progress in vacuum technology

The Tenth National Vacuum Symposium, sponsored by the American Vacuum Society, was held on October 16 to 18 in the Statler‐Hilton Hotel in Boston. The technical meeting, completing a decade of such symposia, was attended by fifteen hundred scientists, engineers, and related technical people. An additional eight hundred others visited the technical exhibits. The size of this meeting was a far cry from the first such assemblage at Asbury Park, which was sponsored by the originating Committee on Vacuum Techniques. In the intervening ten years since Asbury Park, this symposium has grown about tenfold in size, and the group has become an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics. The national symposium is the one meeting in which the technology of and phenomena associated with vacuum are brought together, reviewed, and the most recent advances discussed.