Registration open for 2020 November Networking – ALD at Aalto University, Part 1: Public Webinar

Continuing the tradition (?) started in 2019, a networking event will be organized around atomic layer deposition (ALD): 2020 November Networking – ALD at Aalto University. The event will take place on November 25 and 26, 2020.

Due to COVID-19, in 2020, the event will be fully online in Zoom. The program will be in two parts:

• Part 1: Public webinar is open for anyone to attend and has high-level invited speakers: Dr. Jonas Sundqvist, Dr. Tuomo Suntola and Dr. Angel Yanguas-Gil. Additionally, there will be tutorials by Prof. Riikka Puurunen and Prof. Matti Putkonen. (See the webpage & program for details.)
• Part 2: Local networking is aimed for local (Finland-based) participants. The core of  Part 2 will be an online poster session where submissions from doctoral students, postdocs and other researchers are welcome. Additionally, there will be brief introductions to research groups, companies and projects, and a presentation by Prof. Timo Sajavaara on the characterization of ALD films. For the poster session we hope to create an online experience that resembles a regular conference’s poster session -- let’s see how it works out.

The registration link and all related info, including a preliminary program, are found in the event website: https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/2020-november-networking-ald-at-aalto-university. Registration was opened on 21.10.2020 and will close for participation with presentation on 11.11.2020 and for participation without presentation 22.11.2020.

New wikipedia page: V. B. Aleskovskii

A new Wikipedia page has been created for one of the major names of atomic layer deposition (ALD): Valentin Borisovich Aleskovskii. View the page here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Aleskovsky

The page was initiated on June 4 by Angel Yanguas-Gil (view history here) - thank you very much for creating this, Angel! I (Riikka) made next minor edits on the basis of the info from the Molecular Layering essay (DOI: 10.1002/cvde.201402012) by Malygin et al.

Then, something happened which I would call a "Wikipedia miracle". In a day, the article transformed to have much more contents and division into sections, as some to-me-unknown Wikipedia-volunteer from outside the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) took action and made major edits, improving the contents of the article and adding links to existing information. The page is still in its early days, and it is interesting to follow, how it will evolve in the future.

In my view, this "Wikipedia miracle", which I have just witnessed to occur, is what Wikipedia is about at its best. Wikipedia is an open encyclopedia. Everyone can create pages and edit contents. With group wisdom, the information evolves and improves. In the Wikipedia workshop of a recent seminar ("Liikutu tiedosta") on Science Communication, research results were presented which concluded the reliability of Wikipedia articles to be on average to a level similar to Encyclopedia Britannica. Year 2016 is the Year of Science in Wikipedia. It would be great, if this year would also motivate ALD scientists to improve the contents of the general ALD page would also be edited to be on the general high level of Wikipedia. For those considering editing, the Five Pillars quickly explain the principles how Wikipedia works:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars.

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Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) - in atmosphere of Openness, Respect, and Trust

Wikipedia update: English page and photograph for Tuomo Suntola

Recent progress in the Wikipedia update (#11 in the VPHA Publication Plan):

1. Tuomo Suntola has a Wikipedia page in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomo_Suntola. Thank you to Angel Yanguas-Gil for creating this first version of the Suntola page. Updates are to come. 
2. A photograph of Suntola has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for everyone's use: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuomo_Suntola,_2014.JPG. This photo was taken by myself at the Baltic ALD 2014 conference in Helsinki during Suntola's opening invited talk, and I have now donated it to the Wikipedia update effort. The photo has been uploaded with a Creative Commons licence, and the copyright line needs to be remembered in further use. I think this will do: "Author: Riikka Puurunen. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Internationallicense". Tuomo himself has also approved the use and uploading of the photograph to Wikimedia Commons.   

Tuomo Suntola giving the opening invited talk entitled "From ideas to global industry - 40 years of ALD in Finland" at the International Baltic ALD conference, May 12, 2014, in Helsinki, Finland. Photo by Riikka Puurunen. Released to Wikimedia Commons on January 20, 2016.

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Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA) - in atmosphere of Openness, Respect, and Trust

Wikipedia, Suntola, forefront of science and Dynamic Universe

In a previous post, ALD in Wikipedia - status and surprises, I described the results of exploring ALD-related pages in Wikipedia. Today, I want to continue around the same Wikipedia topic, by sharing the story of how I got to know Dr. Tuomo Suntola, the Finnish inventor of ALD. This I do to shed light on the surprising content of his Wikipedia page, namely the fact that ALD is not mentioned there at all.