The Upstate New York Chapter
The Upstate New York Chapter was formed in 1974. With the new AVS organizational structure in 1971, the New York-Delaware Valley RAG covered the whole of New York as well as New Jersey, part of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and part of Maryland. The Greater New York Chapter covered New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. The Upstate New York Chapter covered the area outside the New York metropolitan area as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada; there were nearly 300 members in the region which stretched from Ottawa and Montreal on the north to Corning and Binghamton on the south and from Buffalo and Toronto on the west to Albany on the east. When the Greater New York Chapter was dissolved in 2003, members in the area with zips 10500-10999 and 12000-14999, which includes Westchester County and all points north, were assigned to the Upstate New York Chapter.
Information on Chapter events, as well as the Chapter newsletter, can be obtained on the Chapter web page, accessed through the AVS Web site.
The Chapter chairs were:
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1974 |
Lewis B Leder |
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1975 |
Richard W Vook |
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1976 |
John W May |
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1977 |
John B Hudson |
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1978 |
A Gary Sigai |
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1979 |
John M Blakely |
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1980 |
Matthew J Keehan |
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1981 |
Francis P Fehlneer |
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1982 |
Walter M Gibson |
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1983 |
Walter M Gibson |
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1984 |
David A Glocker |
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1985 |
Roger S Abbott |
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1986 |
Roger S Abbott |
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1987 |
Douglas H Reep |
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1988 |
Douglas H Reep |
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1989 |
Paul H Wojciechowski |
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1990 |
Paul H Wojciechowski |
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1991 |
Vern Lindberg |
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1992 |
Vern Lindberg |
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1993 |
Merle Hirsh |
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1994 |
Merle Hirsh |
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1995 |
Merle Hirsh |
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1996 |
Merle Hirsh |
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1997 |
Merle Hirsh |
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1998 |
Merle Hirsh |
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1999 |
Jeremy Grace |
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2000 |
Terrance Rogelstad |
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2001 |
Terrance Rogelstad |
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2002 |
Terrance Rogelstad |
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2003 |
Terrance Rogelstad |
On November 19, 1973, before the official founding of the Chapter, a symposium on “Metal-oxide-semiconductor and metal-semiconductor junctions”, chaired by Art Yelon, was held at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, The AVS Newsletter announced that it was sponsored by the Montreal section of IEEE and by AVS and that Mathew Keehan was organizing an AVS Chapter.
1974
November 11: “Chemical Analysis of Surfaces”, Univ. of Rochester
1975
November 18: Symposium on “Chemical Processes at Solid Surfaces” and a course “Fundamentals of Vacuum Technology ”was held at Cornell Univ, with Bill Unertl as the organizer.
1976
June 17: First Spring Symposium and Vacuum Show, Marriott Motor Inn, Rochester, The topic was “Deposition of Alloys and Compounds ”A course “Partial pressure Analyzers and Analysis” was given.
1977
June 20: 2nd Spring Symposium and Vacuum Show, Marriott Motor Inn, Rochester, with a short course on “Surface Analysis”. The 2nd annual student paper award of $50 went to Hiro V. Thaplial (Cornell Univ), A special speaker was featured at the dinner on June 19.
October 4-5: Fall Symposium on “Thin films” at the Marriott Inn, Syracuse, A short course on “Thin films” was given.
1979
June 18: 6th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Rochester. A “New products seminar” was held and a course “Mechanical Properties of Thin Films” was taught by Dick Hoffman; the course fee was $130 with a text book and $105 without the book.
1980
June 19-20: 7th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show. With a “New products seminar’ and a course “Fundamentals of Evaporating methods”,
1981
June 18: 8th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Airport Holiday Inn, Rochester; course “Chemical Vapor Deposition” taught by Walter Kern.
1982
June 17: 9th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Airport Holiday Inn, Rochester; course “Overview of Thin Film Deposition” taught by John Vossen
1983
June 23: 10th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Airport Holiday Inn, Rochester; 2 technical sessions and a 1-day course “Sputter deposition and Ion Beam processes”.
1984
June 14: 11th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Airport Holiday Inn, Rochester. “Plasma etching” course.
October 22: Symposium “Interaction of Optical Radiation with surfaces” at RPI.
1985
June 13: 12th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Airport Holiday Inn, Rochester. Two courses were given.
1986
June 12: 13th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Airport Holiday Inn, Rochester. “Vacuum technology” course taught by Harland Tompkins
1987
June 16-18: 14th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn South, Rochester. 2-day course “Sputter deposition and Ion Beam processes” taught by Bill Westwood and Frank Bresnock.
1988
June 23-25: 15th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn South, Rochester, two courses were given.
1989
June: 16th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn South, Rochester.
November 30: Science demonstrations were given to 80 students at 5 high schools; there were several 30 min presentations from Xerox, CVC, and RIT.
1990
June 13-15: 17th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn South, Rochester, two courses were given.
1991
June 5-7: 18th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn South, Rochester, “Mechanical Behavior of Thin Films” and “Microcontamination”, Awards were given for the best student poster. There were 40 vendors.
1992
May 12-14: 19th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Rochester, There was a plenary lecture “Space: the ultimate vacuum chamber”. Two courses were given: “Adhesion of Polymeric and Metallic Thin Films” by Kash Mittal, and “Sputter Deposition” by Steve Rossnagel.
1993
June: 20th annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn, Henrietta,. Special events were held to commemorate the for 20th symposium. There were 50 vendors, and 2 courses were given.
1994
June 8-9: 21st annual Symposium & Vacuum Show, Holiday Inn, Henrietta. Charlie Duke gave a plenary talk. There were 50 vendors and courses were given.
September 21-22:Joint symposium and exhibit with CAN-AM Chapter of ISHM.
1996
June 12-14: Annual Symposium & Vacuum Show at Woodcliff Resort Rochester, was in a new format. Vendors participated in “New product seminars and demonstrations” and there were mini-tutorials on clean room design/operation. An invited lecture was given at a dinner meeting; 5 courses were given.
November 7: “Flat Panel Displays”, Rochester, with tours. 3 courses were given.
1997
August 14-15: Technical Symposium at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility with a session on “Thin Film process technology”.
1998
September 16-18. NYS Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology, Albany, “Plasma based Thin Film processes and CVD” with a tour and equipment exhibit. Three courses were given.
June ??: Rochester. Courses: “Fundamentals of Vacuum Technology,” “Introduction to surface analysis,“ "Mass flow controllers” and “CMP”.
A review of the Chapter’s activities was printed in the in the March/April 1999 issue of the AVS Newsletter. They included a winter social at the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC), an open Executive Committee meeting for new volunteers, Science Saturday at RMSC. Dave Glocker gave a talk on “Past, present &future of the Chapter” at the gala celebration for the 25th annual symposium. The Chapter sent 2 teachers to the Science educators Workshop in Baltimore. The Chapter was pursuing a new approach to vendor sponsorship; “gold sponsors” would be given more flexible ways to meet members.
1999
“Polymer Surfaces” Symposium. Courses were given.
“Thin Film process technology” Symposium. Courses were given.
2000
September 13-15: NYS Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology, Albany “Plasma Processing workshop”, 2 courses: ”Surface Cleaning” (A Busnaina) and “Advanced MEMS” (Stella Pang & J. Castracane)
2001
September 11: Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal.
2002
August 7-8: Symposium on Science and Fabrication of Nanosystems, RPI, Troy, B Ratner talked on “Nano-biological organization and modification ”There was an exhibit, courses, and tours of the RPI-Nano center