For oral presentations, corporate seminars & presentations:

Hall A:Main Convention Hall (Entrance on the 2nd Floor) Room B: 1st Floor, Conference Room 101 Room C: 1st Floor, Conference Room 102 Room D: 2nd Floor, Conference Room 201A Room E: 2nd Floor, Conference Room 201B

Room F: 2nd Floor, Conference Room 202A Room G: 2nd Floor, Conference Room 202B Room H: 3rd Floor, Conference Room 303 Room I: 3rd Floor, Conference Room 304

For poster sessions, venders’ exhibitions, and mixer:

Multi-Purpose Hall

Keynote Lecture:

45 minutes (including discussion time)

Invited Talk, Joint Symposium Talk, Joint Intl Symposium Talk:

30 minutes (including discussion time)

SSSJ Award Talk:

Society Award: 35 min, Rev. Paper or Technique Award: 30 min. (including discussion time)

VSJ Award Talk:

Award for Technology, Young Scientist or JVSJ: each 15 min. (including discussion time)

Contributed Talk:

15 minutes (Talk 10 min. + Discussion 5 min.)

Contributed Poster:

Display: 120 min. incl. core time of 60 min. (Award applicants:120 min)

Akira Fujishima (Tokyo University of Science)

“TiO₂ Photocatalysis, Present Situation and Future Approaches”

Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

“Creating Active Functionality Utilizing Abundant Elements”

• Joint Symposium “Fabrication of Novel Low-Dimensional Materials and Their Device Application”
  Tuesday, December 1st, 9:15-12:00 Room B:Conference Room 101
  Speakers and Their Titles

  Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (NIMS)

  “Atomically Thin Semiconducting Films for Field Effect Transistors”

  Toshihiro Shimada (Hokkaido Univ.)

  “Nanostructure Control of Layered Metal Chalcogenides by Thermal CVD Growth”

  Hideki Yamamoto (NTT Basic Res. Labs)

  “Fabrication of Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Layered Heterostructures and Their Applications to Devices”

  Takayoshi Sasaki (NIMS)

  “Development of Oxide Nanosheets and Application”

  Yukiko Yamada-Takamura (JAIST)

  “Possibility of Silicene as a Device Material”

• Joint Symposium “Front-line Research on Wide-Gap Semiconductors for Power Devices”
  Tuesday, December 1st, 15:30-18:45 Room B:Conference Room 101
  Speakers and Their Titles

  Toru Ujihara (Nagoya Univ.)

  “Ultra-High Quality SiC Grown by Solution Method Utilizing Dislocation Conversion Phenomenon”

  Hiroshi Yano (Univ. Tsukuba)

  “Recent Progress in SiC MOSFET and Its Interface”

  Yusuke Mori (Osaka Univ.)

  “GaN Crystal Growth by Na Flux Method”

  Tamotsu Hashizume (Hokkaido Univ.)

  “Control of GaN-Based Heterostructure Interfaces for Advanced HEMT Technologies”

  Shinichi Shikata (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)

  “Diamond Wafer for Power Device Application”

  Makoto Kasu (Saga Univ.)

  “Recent Progress of Diamond MOSFET Interface Research”

• Joint Symposium “Cutting-Edge Accelerators in Asia and Their Future Perspectives” (English session)
  Thursday, December 3rd, 9:00-11:45 Room B:Conference Room 101
  Speakers and Their Titles

  Lixin Yin (SINAP, CAS, China)

  “Progress and Future of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility”

  Gao-Yu Hsiung (NSRRC, Taiwan)

  “Achievement of Taiwan Photon Source Project”

  Junichiro Kamiya (JAEA)

  “Vacuum Technologies in High Power Proton Beam Accelerator”

  Masaya Oishi and Haruo Ohkuma (JASRI/SPring-8)

  “Steps and Strides of SPring-8 and Its Future Perspective: A Viewpoint from Vacuum Technology”

  Hiroshi Sakai (KEK)

  “Superconducting RF Accelerating Cavity Techniques as a Basis for Future Accelerators　– Learn from the development and beam operation for Compact ERL — “

• Joint Symposium “Surface Analysis under Device Operation or during Chemical Reaction: State-of-the-art Operando Observations”
  Thursday, December 3rd, 13:00-15:45 Room B:Conference Room 101
  Speakers and Their Titles

  Koji Amezawa, Takashi Nakamura (Tohoku Univ.)

  “Operando Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Synchrotron X-Ray”

  Nobuyuki Ishida (NIMS)

  “Operando Measurement of Green Device using Scanning Probe Microscopy”

  Daisuke Asakura (AIST)

  “Operando Analyses of Lithium Batteries by Means of Soft X-ray Emission Spectroscopy”

  Yasutaka Nagai (Toyota Central R&D Labs.)

  “XAFS Study of Automotive Exhaust Catalysts”

  Yasumasa Takagi (IMS)

  “Operando Measurement by Photoelectron Spectroscopy”

• 2015 International Joint Symposium on Recent Progress of Advanced Nanocharacterization (English session)
  Wednesday, December 2nd, 13:00-18:45 Room DE:Conference Room 201A+B
  This international symposium is also organized as the 4th KVS-VSJ-SSSJ Joint Symposium with Korean Vacuum Society (KVS) and endorsed by American Vacuum Society (AVS) as AVS Endorsed Topical Conference. Cooperation from Chinese Vacuum Society (CVS) and Taiwan Vacuum Society (TVS) is also acknowledged for organizing this program.

  List of Invited Speakers and Titles

  2Dp1
  Prof. Robert W. Carpick (Univ. Pennsylvania, USA)

  “New Insights into Friction and Wear through In-Situ Nanotribology”

  2Dp2
  Prof. Dr. Haiming Guo (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

  “Control of Kondo Effect of Individual Magnetic Atom/Molecule on Surfaces”

  2Dp3
  Prof. Zee Hwan Kim (Seoul National Univ., Korea)

  “Nano-Plasmonics: from Single-Molecule Chemistry to Structures of Low-Dimensional Materials”

  ———————–Short Brake———————–

  2Dp4
  Prof. Jiandong Guo (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

  “Precise Growth control of Oxide Polar Films”

  2Dp5
  Prof. Tae-Hwan Kim (Pohang Univ. Sci. Technol., Korea)

  “Chiral Edge States of One-Dimensional Topological Insulators”

  2Dp6
  Prof. Ing-Shou Hwang (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

  “Adsorption and Ordering of Nitrogen and Oxygen Molecules at the HOPG/Water Interface”

  ———————–Short Brake———————–

  2Dp7
  Prof. Jun Yoshinobu (Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

  “In-Situ Observation of Pd Surfaces under Hydrogen Pressure”

  2Dp8
  Dr. Chia-Hao Chen (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan)

  “Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy for Surface Nanocharacterization”

  2Dp9
  Prof. Takanori Koshikawa (Fundamental Electronics Research Institute, Osaka Electro-Communication Univ., Japan)

  “Development of High Brightness and High Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy and Application to Spintronics Magnetic Thin Film Materials”

  Chaired by Shuji Hasegawa (Univ. Tokyo), Fumio Komori (Univ. Tokyo), Katsuyuki Fukutani (Univ. Tokyo).

  Organized also as the 4th KVS-VSJ-SSSJ Joint Symposium with Korean Vacuum Society (KVS).
  Endorsed by American Vacuum Society (AVS) as AVS Endorsed Topical Conference.
  Cooperated by Chinese Vacuum Society (CVS) and Taiwan Vacuum Society (TVS) for organizing this program.

We call for contributed papers for the VSJ sessions in the following topics. Joint sessions will be organized with SSSJ in the topics of “Surface Science” and “Nanometer Structures”. Joint sessions in other topics may be organized.

VSJ Award Ceremonies and Award Talks:

Wednesday, December 2nd, 9:00-10:25, Room B:1st Floor Conference Room 101

SSSJ Award Ceremony and Award Talks for the Society Award:

Wednesday, December 2nd, 9:00-10:25 Hall A:Main Convention Hall (Entrance on the 2nd Floor)

“Vacuum Nanoelectronics – Challenges to Ultimate Performances -” Organizer: Yasuhito Gotoh (Kyoto Univ.)

Thursday, December 3rd, 13:00-16:00, Room E:Conference Room 201B

Above registration fee covers one abstract booklet (bound for both VSJ and SSSJ).

Mixer:

Tuesday, December 1st, 18:45-20:00, in the Multi-Purpose Hall.

Get-Together Party:

Wednesday, December 2nd, 18:45-20:15, in the Conference Room on the 1st Floor.

Fee:4,000JPY (to be paid in cash with your on-site registration fee)

Exhibition for Vacuum and Surface Sciences’ Instruments:

Tuesday, December 1st, 12:00 to Wednesday, December 2nd, 17:00 to be held at the Multi-Purpose Hall.

Corporate Seminars & Presentations：

Tuesday, December 1st and Wednesday, December 2nd: during the lunchtime in oral presentation rooms.

SSSJ will organize symposia, invited talks, topical sessions, sessions by each Division, etc. Members of VSJ may submit and present their papers at SSSJ sessions.

Topics:

1. Surface Physical Properties, 2. Surface Reaction, 3. Surface Structure, 4. Surface Analysis & Characterization,
5. Semiconductor, Magnetic, Electronic, Photonic Device Materials, 6. Low-Dimensional & Nanoscale Materials, 7. Soft Matter,
8. Environmental & Energy Materials, 9. Other Topics.
Some of them will be organized as joint sessions with VSJ.

Following events (in Japanese) will be held during or after SSVS 2015. If you have any interests, we will welcome your participation.

(1) School course on ultrahigh vacuum technique (VSJ Education Committee) Thu. Dec. 3^rd PM

(2) The 6^th Workshop on vacuum and surface sciences for young scientists, Fri. Dec. 4^th (at NIMS)

SSVS 2015 Joint Committee

SSSJ Committee on Annual Meeting

VSJ Committee on 56^th Annual Symposium

Sponsored by

Supported by

In Cooperation with

Application received: June 21^st (Sun.) (9:00 JST) – July 27^th (Mon.) (17:00 JST), 2015 (on this Website)
Submission received: September 1^st (Tue.) – Sept. 24^th (Thu.) (17:00 JST), 2015 (on this Website)

1. Introduction

Abstracts submitted in PDF files will be printed in an abstract booklet in an A4-size and distributed onsite at the Joint Symposium. Please read this instruction carefully and prepare your abstract. You will also find a template of the abstract and its guideline on this website. Your abstract must be submitted electronically through this website.

2. Abstract Preparation

Your abstract should be prepared using the template for Microsoft Word, which can be downloaded from this website. The following notes should be considered:

3. Figures and Tables

Figures, tables and photographs must be arranged within the page.

4. Abstract Submission

Your abstract must be submitted in PDF format: The file name should be “123.pdf” where “123” has to be replaced by your Program Number. You can upload this file from this website for your submission. Please follow this “Guide for Authors of Abstracts” to prepare your abstract. Fonts are to be embedded in the PDF file.

Submission period : September 1st (Tue.) – Sept. 24th (Thu.) (17:00 JST), 2015 (on this Website)

5. Note

Authors for oral and poster presentations should follow the same Guide for Authors of Abstract.
If you have any questions, please send us an e-mail with its subject “Inquiry on Abstract for SSVS 2015” to ofc-vsj@vacuum-jp.org .

The symposium proceedings will appear in the “Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan” vol. 59 (2016): we recommend submission to all authors at the VSJ sessions. Authors at the SSSJ sessions will be recommended to their submission to “Journal of Surface Science Society of Japan” or “e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology” (For details, visit http://www.sssj.org/annual/mtg2015). Authors at the joint sessions are recommended to select and submit either to “Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan”, “Journal of Surface Science Society of Japan” or “e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology”.

1. Contributed papers are published as Letters. A Letter should be limited to 2,500 words including an abstract in English (3 printed pages).
2. Invited papers are published as Letters or Reviews. A Review should be limited to 6,400 words including an abstract in English (8 printed pages).
3. Authors are expected to read the “Information for Contributors & Instructions for the Preparation of Manuscripts”. Manuscripts should be prepared using a prescribed template in a MS-Word format (English Edition). Checklist is also to be filled out and uploaded.
4. The deadline for electronic submission is 30^th November 2015, 24:00 (JST).
5. Submitted manuscripts are sent to a referee. The editorial board decides acceptance in the light of the opinion of the referee.
6. The symposium proceedings will be published as Special Issue: 56th Vacuum Symposium Proceedings in “Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan” vol. 59 (2016) issue 4 and 5.

Program Numbers

• For the session of oral presentations in principle, time of 15 minutes as one unit is numbered in sequence, while there is a 15 minutes’ break between 6th and 7th units. Above example means the talk in the 8th unit in the afternoon on December 2nd, in the Room B. (One unit for a contributed talk and two units for an invited or symposium talk) Therefore, the same program numbers except the rooms indicate that the talks start at the same time.
• Please note that program numbers for keynote lectures and award talks in the morning and invited talks in the joint international symposium in the afternoon on December 2nd are not obedient to this rule so that the number in sequence is not indicated in two digits but in one digit to notify this exception.
• The following alphabet after the number indicates that the presenter is an applicant for a respective award.
  Y :Applicant for SSSJ Young-Researcher Lecture Award
  R :Applicant for SSSJ Rising-Researcher Lecture Award
  S :Applicant for SSSJ Student Award
  V :Applicant for VSJ Award for excellent poster presentations

Oral Presentations

Time for each contributed talk, invited talk, or keynote lecture is 15 minutes long, 30 minutes long, or 45 minutes long, respectively, including 5 minutes for discussion. Only an LCD projector is available in each room. Each presenter is requested to bring his/her own laptop computer. Check to it if the laptop is properly connected to the projector by previewing presentations materials in advance during the break time before the presentation.

Poster Presentations

Schedule for poster presenters is indicated below: each presenter is requested to be present during her/his core time in accordance with odd or even program number, although they are expected to be present beyond their core time, if possible. No such core time is provided for award applicants of both SSSJ and VSJ: They should be present throughout two hours during the poster session for presentation and discussion. Although the size of a poster board is 2,055 mm high and 855 mm wide, the size of a poster is recommended to be less than 1,200 mm high and 855 mm. Leave a blank space of 10 cm high and 20 cm wide on the top-left corner of a board, where its program number is put in advance by the Secretariat. Program number ends with S, Y, R or V for applicants for SSSJ Student Award，Young-Researcher Lecture Award，Rising-Researcher Lecture Award, or VSJ applicants for awarding excellent poster presentations, respectively．For mounting posters, only thumbtacks/drawing pins are to used, which can be provided at the site. After the session is finished, posters are to be removed within the removal time indicated below.

Construction of an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) chamber, which is best optimized to its purpose, is highly expected for surface science studies in an UHV environment. However, because of financial limitation and other reasons, scientists must often make their new apparatus or upgrade existing ones by themselves. Thus, in this School Course, a professionally experienced instructor in this field will provide detailed explanation on necessary knowledge and know-hows to make or upgrade an UHV chamber on their own for surface science studies, based upon his own practical experiences. Prospective attendees are those who have just started their work this April in the labs at universities/research institutions or that have obtained their jobs in the manufacturing companies in relation with vacuum and/or surface science and technology, or those who are ambitious to improve their skills for designing, fabricating and modifying experimental apparatus.

The Vacuum Society of Japan (VSJ) will hold the Organized Session on the basis upon a direct proposal from its Member at its 56^th Annual Symposium from 1^st to 3^rd December, 2015, so as to activate academic discussions on research results in some specific field of its Members’ interests and to strengthen its academic functions of exchanging academic information and creating new knowledge. We had therefore called for proposals from its Members with the deadline on Wednesday, June 3^rd and reviewed and accepted the following proposal. This session will be coordinated by Committee on Scientific Meetings and Conferences and held under the cooperation of Program Committee of the Annual Symposium.

1. Title

Vacuum Nanoelectronics – Challenges to Ultimate Performances –

2. Proposed by

Yasuhito GOTOH (VSJ Full Member)

3. Style of a proposed Organized Session

Reserved session-style

4. How to propose an Organized Session

Set proposal

* We will call for contributed talks in this Session with other contributed presentations in general at the 56^th Annual Symposium of the Vacuum Society of Japan: Prospective speakers are welcome to apply through this website during the application/entry period (From June 21^st to July 27^th, 2015).

The 56^th Annual Symposium of the Vacuum Society of Japan (VSJ) will be held as a joint conference, SSVS 2015, with the 35^th Annual Meeting of the Surface Science Society of Japan at Tsukuba International Congress Center (2-20-3 Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) on three days between 1^st and 3^rd December, 2015. VSJ Committee on Scientific Meetings and Conferences is pleased to select and award excellent poster presentations at the VSJ Poster Sessions in the following procedure.

1. VSJ Committee on Scientific Meetings and Conferences is responsible for recognizing excellent poster presentations.
2. Excellent poster presentations will be selected in the following procedure:
   • Among submitted poster papers at the 56^th Annual Symposium of the Vacuum Society of Japan (VSJ Sessions in SSVS 2015), those by eligible presenting authors (either VSJ’s member, an individual of its corporate member, its student member) under the age of forty as of April 1^st, 2015, are subject of recognition, if they have been applied for the selection.
   • Excellent papers will be selected and reviewed by referees appointed by VSJ Committee on Scientific Meetings and Conferences.
   • Not only presentation onsite but also the content of its abstract is also reviewed.
   • A presentation without its registered presenting author onsite will not be reviewed even if it has been applied to the selection.
3. The honorable awardees will receive certificates, while their names and titles of their presentations will appear in the Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan.

Date:

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015; 13:25 – 18:35

Venue:

Tsukuba International Congress Center, Conference Room 201 (2-20-3 Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0032, Japan)

Invited Speakers and Their Talks:

New Insights into Friction and Wear through In-Situ Nanotribology

Robert W. Carpick (Univ. Pennsylvania, USA)

Control of Kondo Effect of Individual Magnetic Atom/Molecule on Surfaces

Haiming Guo (Inst. Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Nano- Plasmonics: from Single-Molecule Chemistry to Structures of Low-Dimensional Materials

Zee Hwan Kim (Seoul National Univ., Korea)

Precise Growth Control of Oxide Polar Films

Jiandong Guo (Inst. Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Chiral Edge States of One-Dimensional Topological Insulators

Tae-Hwan Kim (Pohang Univ. Sci. Technol., Korea)

Adsorption and Ordering of Nitrogen and Oxygen Molecules at the HOPG/Water Interface

Ing-Shou Hwang (Inst. Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

In-Situ Observation of Pd Surfaces under Hydrogen Pressure

Jun Yoshinobu (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy for Surface Nanocharacterization

Chia-Hao Chen (National Synchrotron Radiation Res. Center, Taiwan)

Development of High Brightness and High Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy and Application to Spintronics Magnetic Thin Film Materials

Takanori Koshikawa (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ.)

Chaired by Shuji Hasegawa (Univ. Tokyo), Fumio Komori (Univ. Tokyo), Katsuyuki Fukutani (Univ. Tokyo).

Organized also as the 4th KVS-VSJ-SSSJ Joint Symposium with Korean Vacuum Society (KVS).
Endorsed by American Vacuum Society (AVS) as AVS Endorsed Topical Conference.
Cooperated by Chinese Vacuum Society (CVS) and Taiwan Vacuum Society (TVS) for organizing this program.