| Abstract | This issue of the Journal of Crystal Growth contains papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE-XV), held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, August 3–8, 2008. This was the latest in the biennial conference series which rotates among North America, Europe and Asia in a 6-year cycle. The last five conferences were held in Tokyo, Japan (2006), Edinburgh, UK (2004), San Francisco, USA (2002), Beijing, China (2000) and Cannes, France (1998). This year there were 372 conference attendees, including vendor exhibitors, representing 26 countries. The technical sessions featured 271 contributed presentations (142 oral and 129 poster) including 3 plenary and 14 invited talks. |
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