National Day of Glass

The North American International Year of Glass Steering Committee hosted the National Day of Glass event, April 5-7, 2022 at The Madison Washington DC. The event featured technical programming and talks from some of the largest companies and biggest minds in the North American glass industry, art community, government agencies, and educational systems who rely on glass.

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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 IV	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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Organizing Committee

Manoj Choudhary North American Steering Committee Chair MKC Innovations, LLC	L. David Pye International Year of Glass Architect Alfred University, Empire State Glass
Kathleen Richardson National Day of Glass Convening Chair University of Central Florida	Mario Affatigato National Day of Glass Technical Program Chair Coe College

Finance Committee

Arun Varshneya Saxon Glass Technologies, Inc.	Marcus Fish Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation	Bob Lipetz Glass Manufacturing Industry Council

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