GOMD selects award lecturers for May meeting

The Glass & Optical Materials Division has selected six outstanding glass scientists to present award lectures at the GOMD Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas from May 20-24, 2018.  The speakers, listed below in order of their lecture, are:

Stookey Lecture of Discovery: Monday, May 21, 8:00 am

Wolfram Höland  Ivoclar Vivadent AG; lecturer, ETH Zurich

Lecture title: Combinations of different nucleation and crystallization mechanisms to develop tailor-made glass-ceramics

George W. Morey Award: Tuesday, May 22, 8:00 am

Arun Varshneya, CEO, Saxon Glass Technologies, Inc.

Lecture title: Chemically strengthened glass: Science, technology and its future

Norbert J. Kreidl Award for Young Scholars: Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 pm

Maxime Cavillon, Clemson University, USA

Lecture title: Fabrication of intrinsically low nonlinearity glass optical fibers

Tobias Bechgaard, Aalborg University, Denmark

Lecture title: Temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry analysis of high-temperature silicate glasses 

Darshana and Arun Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Science Lecture: Wednesday, May 23, 8:00 am

Setsuhisa Tanabe, professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

Lecture title: Glass and rare-earth elements

Darshana and Arun Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Technology Lecture: Thursday, May 24, 8:00 am

Xiang-Hua Zhang, research professor, University of Rennes 1, France

Lecture title: Recent research trends of chalcogenide glasses and ceramics for infrared photonics and energy applications

Congratulations to these deserving winners. Register now for the GOMD Annual Meeting and hear the lectures for yourself! See you in San Antonio!