Corinne D’Ambrosio

Since 1990 the AVS has been conducting the Science Educator’s Workshop, held in conjunction with the Na-tional AVS Symposium. The two-day workshop focuses on low-pressure experi-ments and modeling for mid-dle and high school teachers, and provides each teacher with a vacuum system for use at their school in con-ducting similar experiments. This year the workshop was held at the Long Beach Con-

Science Educator’s Workshop at AVS 60 in Long Beach

Happy Holidays from the SCCAVS HOLIDAY 2013

Special points of

interest:

• Tour at UCLA’s Toka-mak Reactor & Large Area Plasma Device

• Science Educator’s Workshop at AVS 60 in Long Beach, CA

• Expo and Short Course Annoucement for Octo-ber 1, 2014 at UCLA

Contact Us:

Corinne D’Ambrosio,

Chair

corinne@sccavs.org

Jeffrey Lince, Treasurer

jeff@sccavs.org

Jim Garner, Secretary

jim@sccavs.org

Members at Large:

Dan Coursen

Greg Mills

Gene Monnin

Fred Praudisch

Rick Seboldt

Richard Stamberg

General Inquiries:

info@sccavs.org

vention Center and nine local teachers were awarded scholarships to attend, spon-sored by the Southern Cali-fornia Chapter of the AVS. Teachers represented the Los Angeles Unified School District, Long Beach Unified School District, Orange Uni-fied School District, local private and Charter Schools like Green Dot, Windward, and Oak Knoll, as well as Fullerton Unified School District and Apple Valley Unified School District. The attendees also had the

opportunity to tour the coating facility at Coatings By Sandberg in Orange, a local optical coating business specializing in dichroic glass (www.cbs-dichroic.com). The next workshop will be held November 10-11, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland dur-ing the AVS 61st Interna-tional Symposium and Equip-ment Exhibition. Interested teachers should submit an application online at www.avs.org. Deadline is September 30, 2014.

Clockwise from top left: Tour at CBS Dichroic, Kelly Meade (LBUSD) et al conducting experiment, SEW Classroom at Long Beach Convention Center, Jessica Chan (Oak Knoll) et al working on SEW experiment

Thank you to our sponsors:

Mailing Address: Southern California Chapter AVS

616 Hartford Avenue Huntington Beach, CA 92648

info@sccavs.org

Dinner & Tour of the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA Photo Credits: Gene Monnin and Richard Stamberg

On Tuesday, October 8th, Dr. Walter Gekelman, American Physical Society Fellow and Professor in

the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA, gave a tour and presentation to almost 40 mem-

bers of the greater SCCAVS community. The talk addressed the state of plasma science, its achieve-

ments, challenges, and objectives, as well as vacuum design and engineering challenges faced by the

UCLA Basic Plasma Research Center team in developing one of the world’s foremost plasma physics

labs. With plasma technology being crucial to 15% of the US economy, Dr. Gekelman stressed the

importance of plasma science for the vacuum community in fields like semiconductors, thin films,

metallurgy, medicine, and surface modification, just to name a few. In addition to the tour of the To-

kamak Reactor and Large Area Plasma Device, he offered an amazing Technicolor computer visualiza-

tion he pioneered for finding complex 3D plasma structures hidden in large data sets. The over-

whelming feeling after the talk and tour was one of reinvigorated belief in the importance of plasma

fusion reactors in creating a limitless clean energy source to address current and future challenges for

the world’s ever growing demand.

The SCCAVS thanks Dr. Gekelman, Zoltan Lucky, and the team at UCLA for the opportunity!

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

CHAPTER OF THE AVS : THE SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY OF

MATERIALS, INTERFACES, AND

PROCESSING

Local Chapter Activities

We’re on the web!

www.sccavs.org

Upcoming Events

NCCAVS 35th Annual Equipment Exhibition

February 20, 2014 Holiday Inn San Jose 1350 N. First Street

San Jose, CA 11AM-7PM

The Conference on the Physics & Chemistry of Surfaces & Interfaces

(PSCI-41) Santa Fe, New Mexico January 12-16, 2014

www.PSCIconference.org

Clockwise from top left: Viewing the plasma in the Tokamak Reactor, 3D computer visualization of complex plasma structures, side view of Large Area Plasma Device, front view of LAPD

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CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK AND

TWITTER!!!

https://www.facebook.com/Sccavs

https://twitter.com/SCCAVS

If you are not already an AVS member, take advantage of special anniversary rates and benefits in honor of the AVS 60th Anniversary! 2013 dues (now through De-cember 31st, 2013) for both new and renewing members will be just $60. Membership Benefits Include:

• Career Services

• Networking

• JVST A & B Publications

• Physics Today Subsription

• Technical Meetings

FEATURED WEBPAGE

Visit http://www.sccavs.org/Newsletters.htm for the Southern California Chapter of the American Vacuum Society’s newsletter archive. This archive of e-newsletters dates back to November 2008 and

includes many highlights such as the 2012 Expo and Short Course, trips to Mount Wilson Observato-

ry and UCLA, and talks on the Mars Rover!

We’re on the web!

www.sccavs.org

Upcoming Events and Chapter Announcements

SCCAVS Annual Equipment Exhibition & Short Course Program

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 UCLA Covel Commons, Los Angeles, CA

SAVE THE DATE! On October

1, 2014 the SCCAVS will host

its annual Equipment Exhibi-

$on, Short Course Program,

and Student Poster Session at

UCLA’s Covel Commons.

Located in the heart of

UCLA’s Sunset Village, the

2014 SCCAVS Expo will be

held in the Grand Horizon

Ballroom, with lunch on the

adjoining Terrace featuring a

spectacular panoramic view

of the campus. The Short

Course Program will be held

in the adjacent North Ridge,

West Coast, and South Bay

rooms. A Student Poster

Session will be held in the

atrium with prizes and recep-

$on to follow.

Exhibitor Registra$on and Short

Course Program Registra$on

will begin in early 2014. To be placed on the EARLY INTEREST LIST for either, please contact Corinne D’Ambrosio at chair@sccavs.org or call (714)

536-2800.

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Images from 2012 SCCAVS Equipment Exhibition held at Covel Commons at UCLA