Conferences and Seminars

Special Announcement: IMI-NFG supported Glass Conference 2013

An International Interactive Conference on FUNCTIONAL GLASSES: Properties and Applications for Energy & Information. January 6-11, 2013 Sicily, Italy. This ECI (Engineering Conference International) conference will discuss recent advances in glass research as well as identify the requirements that glass must satisfy for new and emerging applications. It will focus especially on energy and information delivery technologies in which glass is expected to have a large impact in the near future. The Conference will aim to establish dialog between leading glass users and active glass researchers, together with the glass manufacturers who often serve as the interface between these two communities, through a series of invited talks, panel discussions, breakout sessions and poster sessions. More details >

IMI-NFG supported Glass Courses 2012

Mini Interactive Web Course on GLASS in ENERGY.
Spring Semester 2012. (Click link above for Course Webpage)
7 week course providing students a broad overview of the use of glass in different applications in the field of energy. It will start with a general introduction of the fabrication process and most relevant properties of glass, followed by a review of the specific energy domain where glass is currently applied or expected to be used in the near future.

Upcoming Glass Related Events

2012 Glass and Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting (GOMD 2012)
Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, St. Louis, MO
May 20-24, 2012
More information and call for papers: please go to their website >

12th Glass Stress Summer School
Tallinn, Estonia
June 6th - 7th
An intensive two-day course containg lectures, equipment demonstrations, practical stress measurements and informal discussions. Program of Events >
Registration Form >
More information available on the website: http://www.glasstress.com

18th International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses (ISNOG 2012)
St. Malo, France
July 1-5, 2012

4th International Congress on Ceramics
Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 15-19, 2012

XIII International Conference on the Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids (PNCS 2012)
Yichang Three Gorges, Hubei, P.R. China
September 16-20, 2012
Updated information and on-line registration available on their website >
First Announcement and Call for Papers for XIII PCNS pdf >

Materials Science and Technology 2012 Conference & Exhibition (MS&T 2012)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
October 7-11, 2012

Past IMI-NFG sponsored Conferences and Events

Interactive Web Courses

Mini Interactive Web Course on CHALCOGENIDE GLASSES. Spring Semester 2011.
7 week course provided students a broad overview of chacogenide glasses (structure & properties) and existing and potential applications, such as in photonics, electronics and ionics. More details >

Relaxation Processes in Glass. Spring Semester 2010
New Multi Instructional Team Teaching (M.I.T.T) Glass Course.
This interactive web-based glass course offered participants the opportunity to learn from leading experts from the US and abroad on glass via live lectures on the internet. More details >

Physical Properties of Glass. Fall Semester 2009
Cooperative Glass Course. Series of lectures from 11 U.S glass experts.

Short Course on “Glass Science & Engineering"
Tuskegee University, Alabama. Sept. 26-27, 2008
Special course opened to students at Tuskegee University    

International Winter Schools

US-China Winter School on New Functionalities in Glass, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
January 4-15, 2010

US-Japan Winter School on New Functionalities in Glass, Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan. January 6-17, 2008
'Students Give High Marks to First US- Japan Glass Science School' Read NSF News Article>

International Workshops

Workshop: Applications of Synchrotron Techniques in Glass Research.
National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA (April 6-7, 2009)

IMI-NFG International Workshop : Solar Energy Workshop. “Glass for Harvesting, Storage & Efficient Usage of Solar Energy”. Pittsburgh. (Nov. 16-18, 2008)
Published Article on Solar Workshop Read>

International Workshop on Scientific Challenges of New Functionalities in Glass. Washington DC., (April 15-17, 2007)