The Glass & Optical Materials Division and the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) held a joint student poster contest at the DGG-GOMD meeting in May 2014 in Aachen, Germany.
GOMD presented four students with certificates and prize money for their winning posters:
1st Place: Justine Galbraith, Dalhousie University, Canada
2nd Place: Katharina Philipps, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Co-3rd Place: Oscar Laurent, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée – LPTMC, France
Co-3rd Place: Simon Striepe, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
The Cooper Award committee has selected the Cooper Scholar winner for 2014 and the two Cooper Distinguished Lecturers who will all give presentations at the Cooper Session at MS&T14 on Monday, October 13th from 2:00- 5:00 p.m. in Room 302 at the Convention Center.
Alfred R. Cooper Scholar Award Winner
Nicole T. Johnson
Coe College
Lecture title: Development of electronically conductive glasses for resistive plate calorimeter particle detectors
Alfred R. Cooper Distinguished Lecturers
C. Austen Angell, Arizona State University
Lecture title: Forty years of silica simulations. Where are we now? (With a digression on Al Cooper and the Deborah number)
Cornelius T. Moynihan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lecture title: Interesting aspects of the glass transition