Report on the Meetings of the International Organization for Crystal Growth Executive Committee, Council and General Assembly held during ICCG-15/ICVGE-13 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

12-17 August 2007

The International Organization for Crystal Growth (IOCG) Executive Committee, Council and General Assembly were held respectively on August 13^th, 14^th, and 16^th 2007. A quorum was present at all meetings.

Executive Council Meeting

1. The results of the IOCG election of officers and executive committee for 2007-2010 term was announced.

2. The winners of the of the IOCG awards were announced. The IOCG Frank Prize is awarded to Dr. Vladimir Voronkov for significant theoretical contributions, especially for the understanding of defect formation in silicon. The IOCG Laudise Prize is awarded to Dr. J. Brian Mullin for basic contributions to crystal growth technology, especially for invention of the LEC process, development of MOVPE, and discovery of non-equilibrium segregations at facets. The IOCG Schieber Prize (young author) will be awarded to Dr. Verònica Bermùdez for her publications regarding new approaches for measuring and engineering dopant domain structures. The presentation of the IOCG Distinguished Service Award to I. Sunagawa (Japan) for his contributions in establishing the international crystal growth community, especially of younger generations, to encourage the understanding of crystal growth mechanisms, including organizing the Summer School "Hodankai" and serving as its School Master for nearly fifteen years, resulting in both enhanced theoretical and experimental work in Japan and throughout the world.

3. The Treasurer's Report, presented by T. Duffar was accepted. The account was on August 2004 as 15817.10 SFr. The expenditures over the last reporting period included a two year subscription to IUPAC, tax for three years, and fees and costs associated with the IOCG (www.iocg.org) website. The French National Association for Crystal Growth contributed 6620$US from the ICCG-14 conference proceedings to the IOCG treasury. The bank account was moved from Switzerland to the United States during this period. The closing balance of the IOCG account was 19123.29 $US.

4. The 16^th International Conference on Crystal Growth, ICCG-16, will be held in Beijing, China, on August 8-15, 2010, The conference organizers are: Conference Chair, Prof. Minhua Jiang, International Advisory Committee Chair, Prof.Naiben Ming, Program Committee Chair, Prof.Chuangtian Chen, Local Organization Committee Chair, Dezhong Shen, Conference Co-Chairs, Prof.Yicheng Wu and Prof. Jiyang Wang. The 14^th International Summer School on Crystal Growth, ISSCG-14, will be held in Dailan, China, on August 1-7, 2010 and will be chaired by Prof.Mu Wang.

5. The Executive Council approved the proposal holding ICCG-17 in Warsaw and ISSCG-15 Gdańsk, Poland in 2013.

Elected Officers and Committee Members of the IOCG 
President          A. A. Chernov (USA)
Vice-Presidents            R. Fornari (Germany)

                                           T. Ohachi (Japan)
Secretary          T.F. Kuech (USA)
Treasurer          V. Fratello (USA)
Past President   R.F. Sekerka (USA)

 Honorary Principal Founder IOCG       M. Schieber (Israel)

Executive Committee
Hanna Dabkowska (Canada)

J. Derby (USA)

T. Duffar (France)

K. Kakimoto (Japan)

S. Krukowski (Poland)

K. Roberts (United Kingdom)

P. Rudolph (Germany)

E. Vlieg (The Netherlands)

Ex-officio members of the executive committee

Chairmen ICCG-16 Minhua Jiang (China), Jiyang Wang (China)

Chairman ICCG-15 G.B. Stringfellow (USA), R. Feigelson (USA)

Councillors

(a) Representing National Associations

Australia M. Ogden

Brazil S. Baldocchi

China M. Jiang, M. Wang, J. Wang

Czech Republic K. Nitsch

France K. Zaidat, A. Ibanez

Germany W. Assmus, C. Frank-Rotsch, M. Heuken

Hungary K. Polgár

India P. Ramasamy, R. Gopalakrishnan

Israel M. Roth, E. Galun

Italy N. Lovergine

Japan T. Sasaki, Y. Mori, T. Hibiya

Korea K.-C. Shin, K.B. Shim, K. H. Auh

The Netherlands E. Vlieg, J.P.J.M. van der Eerden

Poland S. Krukowski

Romania H.V. Alexandru

Russia A. E. Voloshin, F. A. Kuzentsov, V.V.Osiko

Spain A. Figueras

Switzerland W. Steurer

Ukraine V. P. Semynozhenko, V.M. Puzikov,

B.V. Grinyov

United Kingdom G. Steele, T. Joyce, C. Maxey

USA D. Bliss, C. A. Wang, J. M. Redwing

(b) Representing General Assembly

Bulgaria C. Nanev

Denmark H.E. Lundager Madsen

Ireland B. Glennon

Mexico A. Moreno

Singapore X. Y. Liu

Uruguay L. Fornaro

Ex-officio councilors representing international unions

IUPAC Representative to IOCG R. Turlay France)

IUCr Representative to IOCG H. Dabkowska (Canada)

IUPAP Representative to IOCG J. Buttrey (USA)

IOCG representatives to international unions

IOCG Representative to IUPAC W.J. Jost (USA)

IOCG Representative to IUCr E. Vlieg (The Netherlands)

IOCG Representative to IUPAP J.P. Van der Eerden (The Netherlands)

The General Assembly meeting.

a. The award of the IOCG Prizes, generously sponsored by the ICCG-15 / ICVGE-13 Organizing Committee as follows:

Frank Prize: Vladimir Voronkov

Laudise Prize: J. Brian Mullin

Schieber Prize: Verònica Bermùdez

IOCG Distinguished Service Award: I. Sunagawa

b. The following councilors were elected to represent the General Assembly on the IOCG Executive Council: L. Fornaro (Uruguay), Brian Glennon (Ireland), X. Y. Liu (Singapore), H.E. Lundager Madsen (Denmark), A. Moreno (Mexico), C. Nanev (Bulgaria)

c. Votes of thanks to: (i) the American Association for Crystal Growth and the Organizing Committees of ICCG-15 / ICVGE-13 and ISSCG-13 for their excellent hosting of the present triennial meetings; (ii) the IOCG Prize Nominating Committee; and (iii) the retiring Officers and Executive Committee members of IOCG.

T. Kuech
Secretary (2001–2007), Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University, of Wisconsin - Madison
1415 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, 53706 USA
E-mail address:kuech@engr.wisc.edu (T. Kuech)