Tutorial and Advanced Lectures & Small Series
Most of these are half to one hour lectures on a variety of topics from tutorial to advanced in nature. Including lectures by Prof. Klaus Funke from University of Muenster, Germany pictured right.

Glass Conferences and Workshops

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FUNCTIONAL GLASSES: Properties & Applications for Energy and Information
ECI Conference, Sicily, Italy. January 6-11, 2013
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Applications of Synchrotron Techniques in Glass Research (Brookhaven National Laboratory: April 6-8, 2009). IMI-NFG partnered with the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) to introduce the glass community to the unique aspects of synchrotron in materials research now and in the future.

International Workshop on Glass for Harvesting, Storage and Efficient Usage of Solar Energy
(Pittsburgh, PA: Nov. 16-18, 2008) An outstanding group of experts, representing glass manufacturers, users and leading equipment suppliers, governmental agencies and academia reviewed the state of art related to the use of glass in solar application and aimed to identify the most pressing scientific and engineering questions that need to be resolved for expanding the use of glass in solar energy applications.

Right: one of the breakout groups during the solar workshop

International Workshop on Scientific Challenges for Glass Research - A Glass Research Road-mapping conference held in DC on April 2007. Lectures by academic and glass industry leaders discussing the important questions and imperatives for the glass research community.

17th University Glass Conference - 16 Invited Talks from the conference held at Penn State University in June 2005. They cover a wide range of topics/areas and all include some tutorial preface.

Fracture & Flow Conference Lectures - The conference was held at Penn State University in October 2005. Several in invited talks and tutorials have been captured from that conference.

Bear Creek Interfaces Conference -Several excellent talks captured from this October 2006 conference at Bear Creek Lodge, Macungie, PA are included here.

Glass Products for the Future: An academic's perhaps naïve, but an out-of-the-box perspective - Prof. Himanshu Jain's presentation at the International Congress on Glass in Strasbourg, France on July 2, 2007.

Complete Listing of All Lectures

Complete listing of all Lectures - Almost 180 lectures with index to where located on this site

Other Learning Modules on Glass

Glass Educational Materials for Students & Educators - Listing of videos and other educational material for the students.

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