Tentative Schedule of Events
| Tuesday, April 5, 2022 | ||
| Welcome Reception | National Academy of Sciences | 6 – 8:30 p.m. |
| Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | ||
| Opening Session | Session Chair: Kathleen Richardson, National Day of Glass Chair and University of Central Florida | 8 – Noon |
| Opening Remarks | Kathleen Richardson, National Day of Glass Chair; Manoj Choudhary, North American Steering Committee Chair; Reinhard Conradt, President, International Commission on Glass | 8 – 8:15 a.m. |
| “The Age of Glass - Affirmation and Celebration” | Stephen Eskilson, Eastern Illinois University | 8:15 – 8:40 a.m. |
| "Glass – Vital to our Future" | Wendell Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Corning Incorporated | 8:40 – 9:10 a.m. |
| “(Inspire + Transform) x Sustain = Glass” | Ludovic Valette, Vice President, Global Technology and Engineering, O-I Glass | 9:10 – 9:30 a.m. |
| "Shaking the Etch-a-Sketch of America's Innovation Ecosystem" | Kelvin Droegemeier, Regents’ Professor of Meteorology, Weathernews Chair Emeritus, and Teigen Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma | 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. |
| “Innovation and Invention: The Importance of Investments in Fundamental Science & Engineering" | Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation | 9:50 – 10:10 a.m. |
| “How specialty glass is energizing our future; Enabling health, energy, and sustainability” | Matthias Muller, Executive Vice President R&D and New Ventures, SCHOTT AG | 10:30 – 10:50 a.m. |
| "Pilchuck 50 years of International Glass Art Education" | Christopher Taylor, Executive Director, Pilchuck Glass School | 10:50 – 11:10 a.m. |
| "From University Research to Clinical Use- A Biomedical Glass Story" | Richard Brow, Deputy Provost for Academic Excellence and Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Engineering, Missouri S&T and Steven Jung, Chief Technology Officer, Mo-Sci Corporation | 11:10 – 11:40 a.m |
| “Discovering the Glasses of the Future Using Artificial Intelligence” | Mathieu Bauchy, Associate Professor, UCLA | 11:40 – Noon |
| Session II | Session Chair: Harrie Stevens, ret., Corning Incorporated, Alfred Univ. | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. |
| Panel: Educating and Training the Next Glass Generation Workforce | Moderator: Christine Heckle, Corning Incorporated | |
| Adelle Schade, Dean of Pre-college and Summer Programming, Albright College | ||
| Jacquelyn Fetrow, President, Albright College | ||
| Himanshu Jain, T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Director of Institute for Functional Materials and Devices, Lehigh University | ||
| Judith Schaechter, Adjunct Professor at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and and Adjunct Professor of Craft at University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA | ||
| Anuradha Agarwal, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Materials Research Lab; Leader, MIT-LEAP (Lab for Education and Application Prototypes); & Member, AIM Photonics Academy and MIT ‘s Initiative for Knowledge and Innovation in Manufacturing (IKIM) | ||
| Scott Cooper, Glass and Materials Science Group Leader - R&D at Owens-Illinois Corp. | ||
| Session III | Session Chair: L. David Pye, Emeritus Prof. Alfred University | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |
| “The United Nations International Year of Glass- 2022: A Dream Come True” | Alicia Duran, Chair, International Year of Glass | 2:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
| “American Glass Manufacturing - A Love Letter” | Bob Lipetz, Executive Director, Glass Manufacturing Industry Council | 2:20 – 2:40 p.m. |
| "Glass: An Indispensable Material for a Sustainable World" | Manoj Choudhary, North American Steering Committee Chair | 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. |
| Session Chair: Jeff Kohli, Director of Glass Research, Corning Incorporated | 3:20 – 5:00 p.m. | |
| Foundational Role of Non-oxide Glass to Enable Electrophotographic Printing and Creation of Xerox Corporation | Santokh Badesha, Corporate Fellow and Manager of Open Innovation, Xerox Corporation | 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. |
| “Igniting a Fusion Energy Future with Optics and Photonics” | Tammy Ma, Deputy Director, Lawrence Livermore National Lab | 3:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
| “Bending Light with Glass: Images from the Cosmos to the Microbe” | Steve Feller, B.D. Silliman Professor of Physics, Coe College | 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. |
| “The Second Decade of the Materials Genome Initiative” | James Warren, Director of the Materials Genome Program, NIST | 4:20 – 4:40 p.m. |
| "The Art of Glass: Three Millennia of Creativity and Expression" | Karol Wight, Executive Director, The Corning Museum of Glass | 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. |
| Session Chair and Panel Moderator: Kathy Jordan, President, American Glass Guild | 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | |
| Panel: Art and Glass in Society | ||
| Robert Schaut, Scientific Director for Pharmaceutical Packaging, Corning Incorporated | ||
| Ashutosh Goel, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Rutgers University | ||
| Natalie Tyler, Glass Artist | ||
| Megan McElfresh, Executive Director, Stained Glass Association of America | ||
| Urmilla Johku-Sowell, National Glass Association | ||
| Celebratory Banquet | Theme: Glass Art in our World | 7:00 – 10 p.m. |
| Featured Speakers | ||
| “Sharing the Secrets: From Venice to Stanwood” |  Leslie and Dale Chihuly, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018. © Chihuly Studio. All rights reserved. | |
| “Painting with Light: A New Language in Glass, a Collaboration of Science and Art” |  Narcissus Quagliata | |
| Thursday, April 7, 2022 | ||
| Session V | Session Chair: Gang Chen, Ohio University and ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division Chair | 8:15 – 9:50 a.m. |
| "Research for the Glass Age" | John Mauro, Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University | 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. |
| “Breakthrough Technologies” | Stefanie Tompkins, Director, DARPA | 8:30 – 8:50 a.m. |
| "Glass the Ultimate Sequester and Self-Sustaining Product" | Vahid Majidi, Director, Savannah River National Lab | 8:50 – 9:10 a.m. |
| "Glass Window: Past, Present, and Future" | Naoki Sugimoto, Executive Officer and General Manager, Materials Integration Laboratories, AGC, Inc. | 9:10 – 9:30 a.m. |
| "IPS e.max® Glass-ceramic in the Dental Industry and its Potential for the Future" | George Tysowsky, Head of Global Training and Education, Senior Vice President Technology and Professional Relations, Ivoclar Vivodent | 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. |
| Session VI | Session Chair: Gabrielle Gaustad, Dean, Inamori School of Engineering, Alfred University | |
| “The Role of Fiber Glass for Contribution to SDGs” | Nomura Hiroaki, President, Electric Glass Fiber America LLC, a US-based subsidiary of Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) | 10:05 – 10:25 a.m. |
| “A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose: What Colorblindness Reveals about Perception” | Donald McPherson, Chief Science Officer, EnChroma | 10:25 – 10:45 a.m. |
| “Upcycling Waste Glass into High Value Planet-saving Materials” | Phillip Galland, CEO, GlassWRX | 10:45 – 11:05 a.m. |
| “Glass and Lasers – A Bright Future” | John Ballato, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University | 11:05 – 11:25 a.m. |
| “Infrared Glass – Transforming Imaging” | Sam Rubin, CEO, LightPath Technologies | 11:25 – 11:45 a.m. |
| "Alfred University and Glass Science and Art" | Mark Zupan, President, Alfred University | 11:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. |
| “On the Shoulders of Giants” | Arun Varshneya, President and CEO, Saxon Glass Technologies | 12:05 – 12:25p.m. |
| Session VII | Session Chair: Doris Moncke, Alfred University | |
| Panel: Seeing the Future through Glass | Moderator: John Ballato, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University | 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. |
| Jeffrey Kohli, Director of Glass Research, Corning Incorporated | ||
| Du T. Nguyen, Lawrence Livermore National Lab | ||
| Collin Wilkinson, Director of Research and Development, GlassWRX | ||
| Alastair Cormack, Alfred University | ||
| Event Concludes |
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