SUMMARY OF THE IUVSTA WORKSHOP ON WALL CONDITIONING IN LARGE UHV DEVICES

The International Workshop on ''Wall Conditioning in Large UHV Devices '' was held on 27 February-3 March at Chavannes de Bogis (Switzerland) . The workshop was sponsored by the International Union of Vacuum Scie nce and Technology Associations (IUVSTA) for the purpose of bringing t ogether three communities that are concerned with the most effective m eans of treating (i.e. ''conditioning'') materials for use in high per formance ultra high vacuum systems. Practitioners from the field of ac celerators, fusion devices, the new gravity wave observatories and sem iconductor process equipment attended the workshop. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.