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British Vacuum Council
The British Vacuum Council (BVC) is the link between scientists and engineers within the UK and the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA). The Council supports education activities that develop the understanding of Vacuum engineering, vacuum science, technology and its applications. It is strongly engaged in coordinating, sponsoring and promoting conferences, meetings, seminars and courses in these fields. The Council encourages professional excellence by awarding two prizes each year for outstanding work. About The British Vacuum Council is a registered charity which represents internationally the interests of scientists and engineers who are members of professional and learned societies in fields related to vacuum. These societies can become members of the Council and are known as "institutional members". Currently, there are two members: the Institute of Physics and the UK Surface Analysis Forum. The Members of the Council comprise Offi ...
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International Union For Vacuum Science, Technique And Applications
The International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications (IUVSTA) is a union of 35 science and technology national member societies that supports collaboration in vacuum science, technique and applications. Founded in 1958, IUVSTA is an interdisciplinary union which represents several thousands of physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers and technologists who are active in basic and applied research, development, manufacturing, sales and education. IUVSTA finances advanced scientific workshops, international schools and technical courses, worldwide. The main purposes of the IUVSTA are to organize and sponsor international conferences and educational activities, as well as to facilitate research and technological developments in the field of vacuum science and its applications. History The history and structure of the Union are described in two articles in scientific journals. Membership IUVSTA is a Union (or federation) of National Vacuum Socie ...
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Vacuum Engineering
Vacuum engineering is the field of engineering that deals with the practical use of vacuum in industrial and scientific applications. Vacuum may improve the productivity and performance of processes otherwise carried out at normal air pressure, or may make possible processes that could not be done in the presence of air. Vacuum engineering techniques are widely applied in materials processing such as drying or filtering, chemical processing, application of metal coatings to objects, manufacture of electron devices and incandescent lamps, and in scientific research. Key developments in modern science owe their roots to exploiting vacuum engineering, be it discovering fundamental physics using particle accelerators (one needs to evacuate the space where elementary particles are made to collide), the advanced analytical equipment used to study physical properties of materials or the vacuum chambers within which cryogenic systems are placed to execute operations in solid state Qubits for ...
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Institute Of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physical Society for the UK and Ireland and supports physics in education, research and industry. In addition to this, the IOP provides services to its members including careers advice and professional development and grants the Professional qualifications in the United Kingdom, professional qualification of Chartered Physicist (CPhys), as well as Chartered Engineer (UK), Chartered Engineer (CEng) as a nominated body of the Engineering Council; it also holds its own separate Royal Charter. The IOP's publishing company, IOP Publishing, publishes 85 academic titles. History The Institute of Physics was formed in 1960 from the merger of the Physical Society of London, Physical Society, founded as ...
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Charitable Organisation
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, Religion, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a charitable organization (and of charity) varies between countries and in some instances regions of the country. The Charity regulators, regulation, the tax treatment, and the way in which charity law affects charitable organizations also vary. Charitable organizations may not use any of their funds to profit individual persons or entities. However, some charitable organizations have come under scrutiny for spending a disproportionate amount of their income to pay the salaries of their leadership. Financial figures (e.g. tax refunds, revenue from fundraising, revenue from the sale of goods and services or revenue from investment, and funds held in reserve) are indicators to assess the financial sustainability of a charity, especiall ...
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Charity Commission For England And Wales
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is a non-ministerial government department, non-ministerial department of Government of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Government that regulates Charitable organization, registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities. Its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland are the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. The commission has four sites in London, Taunton, Liverpool and Newport, Wales, Newport. Its website lists the latest annual reports submitted by charities in England and Wales. During the financial year 20222023, the Commission regulated £88billion of charity income and £85billion of charity spend. Charity status Definition To establish a charity, an organisation must first find at least three trustees who will be responsible for the general control and management of the administration of the charity. The organisation ne ...
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BVC John Yarwood Medal
BVC may refer to: Schools *Bassingbourn Village College, a secondary school in Cambridgeshire, England *Bishop Viard College, Kenepuru, Porirua, New Zealand *Bottisham Village College, a secondary school in Cambridgeshire, England * Bow Valley College, a post-secondary institution in Calgary, Alberta, Canada * Bridgetown Vocational College, a secondary school in County Wexford, England Sports *BVC Amsterdam, a Dutch football club *Bay Valley Conference, an athletic conference of the California Community College Athletic Association *Blanchard Valley Conference, a Northwest Ohio High School athletic conference Stock exchanges *Caracas Stock Exchange (), Venezuela *Colombia Stock Exchange () *Bolsa de Valores de Cabo Verde, a stock exchange in Cape Verde *Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (bvc), a stock exchange in Colombia Transport * The IATA-Code for Aristides Pereira International Airport, Boa Vista, Cabo Verde * Bhavnagar Terminus railway station in Gujarat, India Other *Bar ...
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The British Vacuum Council's Junior Prize Medal
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John Pendry
Sir John Brian Pendry, (born 4 July 1943) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into metamaterials and creation of the first practical "Invisibility, Invisibility Cloak". He is a professor of theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College London where he was head of the department of physics (1998–2001) and principal of the faculty of physical sciences (2001–2002). He is an honorary fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, (where he was an undergraduate) and an IEEE fellow. He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience "for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging.", together with Stefan Hell, and Thomas Ebbesen, in 2014. Education Pendry was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), Natural Sciences and a PhD in 1969. Career John Pendry was born in Manch ...
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David King (chemist)
Sir David Anthony King (born 12 August 1939) is a South African-born British chemist, academic, and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG). King first taught at Imperial College, London, the University of East Anglia, and was then Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry (1974–1988) at the University of Liverpool. He held the 1920 Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge from 1988 to 2006, and was Master of Downing College, Cambridge, from 1995 to 2000: he is now emeritus professor. While at Cambridge, he was successively a fellow of St John's College, Downing College, and Queens' College. Moving to the University of Oxford, he was Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment from 2008 to 2012, and a Fellow of University College, Oxford, from 2009 to 2012. He was additionally President of Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy (2008–2011), and Chancellor of the University of Liverpool (2010–2013). Outside of academia, ...
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David E
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Jas Pal Badyal
Jas Pal Singh Badyal (born 1964) is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r .... He has been Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales in the Welsh Government since February 2023. Education Badyal was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), Natural Sciences in 1985 followed by a PhD in 1988 on the surface science of ruthenium-Titanium dioxide, titania heterogeneous catalysts. Career and research Following his PhD, Badyal held a King's College, Cambridge research fellowship and the Cambridge University Oppenheimer Research Fellowship. He was appointed a Lecturer at Durham University in 1989 and was promoted to Professor, Full Professor in ...
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Max Planck Institute Of Plasma Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (, IPP) is a physics institute investigating the physical foundations of a fusion power plant. The IPP is an institute of the Max Planck Society, part of the European Atomic Energy Community, and an associated member of the Helmholtz Association. The IPP has two sites: Garching near Munich (founded 1960) and Greifswald (founded 1994), both in Germany. It owns several large devices, namely the experimental tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (in operation since 1991), the experimental stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (in operation since 2016), a tandem accelerator and a high heat flux test facility (GLADIS) Furthermore it cooperates closely with the ITER, DEMO and JET projects. The International Helmholtz Graduate School for Plasma Physics partners with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Greifswald. Associated partners are the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) in Greifswald and the Leibniz Com ...
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