Welcome

On behalf of the IVEC 2010 Program Committee and the Electron Devices Society (EDS) Technical Committee on Vacuum Electronics, I would like to welcome you to the 11th IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2010). IVEC was created in 2000 by merging the US Power Tube Conference and the European Space Agency TWTA Workshop, and has expanded to a fully international conference. It is held every other year in the US, and in Europe and Asia, alternately, every fourth year. The conference focuses on vacuum electron devices and their applications. This year´s meeting, sponsored by the IEEE EDS, will be at the Portola Hotel and Spa in the picturesque city of Monterey, California.