In addition to well-known researchers with materials science, physics, chemistry, and geologic backgrounds, we will also invite a number of young researchers to give invited talks in the two symposia.
English will be the official language.
INVITED SPEAKERS
PNCS:
Alastair N. Cormack,USA - Interaction of water with multicomponent silicate glass surfaces
Aldo F. Craievich, Brazil - Structure of multilayered films of PbTe nanoparticles embedded in vitreous silica & deposited on Si
Akira Takada, Japan - Computer simulation of pressure-induced structural changes in crystalline and vitreous silica
Arun Varshneya, USA - The physics of chemical strengthening of glass
Austen Angell, USA - Ideal glass formers
Bernard Champagnon, France - Nano heterogeneities in single phase glasses and high pressure experiments
Daniel B. Miracle, USA - Influence of bond enthalpy on metallic glass stability
Damien Vandembroucq, France- Mechanical plastic behavior of glasses
David Price, France - Development of structural order during supercooling of a levitated oxide melt
Georges Calas, France - The environment of transition elements in oxide glasses
Himanshu Jain, USA - Structural basis of silver photodissolution in chalcogenide glass and its use to photolithography
Ivan Cornejo, USA - Glass composition and process research at Corning incorporated
Janis Kliava, France - Local structure and electronic configuration in Mn and Fe doped glasses
Jean Louis Souquet, Brazil - Charge carrier concentration and mobility calculated from conductivity data below and above Tg
John Ballato, USA - Novel crystalline optical fibers
John Kieffer, USA - Simulation studies concerning anomalous thermo-mechanical properties in borates
Jong Heo, Korea - Precipitation of PbS quantum dots in glasses induced by the external electromagnetic field
Kohei Soga, Japan - Rare-earth doped nanophosphors for NIR bioimaging
L. Zhang, China - Sol-Gel Preparations towards non-siliceous glasses: structurally monitored in-situ by NMR Techniques
Leonid Glebov, USA - Generation and bleaching of color centers in photo-thermo-refractive glass
M-Louise Saboungi, France - Local structure and electronic configuration in Mn and Fe doped glasses
Matteo Ciccotti, France - The role of water in the stress corrosion mechanisms in glasses
Paul Bingham, UK - Modified iron phosphate glasses for waste immobilization: advantages and limitations
Qiming Liu, China - Nonlinear optical properties of chalcogenide and chalcohalide glasses
Richard Brow,USA - Glass in 2020
S. Kojima, Japan - Boson peaks of lithium borate glasses studied by inelastic neutron and light scattering
Tierry Cardinal, France - New approach for direct laser writing below the diffraction limit in glasses.
Tanguy Rouxel, France - High pressure densification and indentation behavior of glass
Walter Kob, France - Structure and dynamics / simulations of some glasses
X. Zhang, France - Infrared transmitting glass ceramics based on chalco-halides
CRYSTALLIZATION 2009
Christian Russel, Germany - Photo induced crystallization
Erich Meyer, Brazil - Applicability of adiabatic nucleation theory to glass crystallization
Juern Schmelzer, Germany - On the determination of the kinetic pre-factor in nucleation theory
Julien Lumeau, USA - Complex crystallization pathways of a multicomponent PTR glass
Ken Kelton , USA - Liquid and glass structures and their Influence on phase transitions
Lian Yu, USA - Crystallization of organic glasses: how crystal growth transitions from diffusion-controlled to diffusionless and is enhanced by free surfaces
Lindsay Greer, UK - Recent advances on crystallization of metallic glasses
Mark Davis, USA, Crystal-Size Effects in Glass-Ceramics: a Review
Olga Dymshits, Russia - Optical applications of glass-ceramics
Pavel Hrma, USA - Crystallization in multicomponent glasses
Vitaly Schneidman, USA - Mathematical theory of the two-step annealing experiment