ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division Awards

2020 Frontiers of Glass Science Lecturer:
Younès Messaddeq; Université Laval, Quebec
Title: Idea to Innovation of Optical fibers

2020 Frontiers of Glass Technology Lecturer:
Joachim Deubener; Clausthal University of Technology
Title:Mechanical properties and thermal behavior of hydrous glasses

2020 Lecturer:
Antoni P. Tomsia; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Glass scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

2020 Awardee:
Walter Kob; University of Montpellier, France
Title: Glass: We love it but it breaks

2020 Awardee:
Yifei Zhang; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Reconfigurable materials and optics: a phase change for the better

2020 Awardee:
Katelyn Kirchner
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Beyond the Average: A Statistical Mechanical Exploration of Topological Fluctuations in Glass-Forming Systems
2020 Runner up:
Emily Li
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Decoding Structure-Dynamics Correlations in SiO2 Supercooled Liquid by Machine Learning
2020 Runner up:
Jared Rivera
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Effect of nanoscale phase separation on the fracture behavior of glasses: Toward tough, yet transparent glasses
2020 Distinguished Lecturer:
John Kieffer; University of Michigan
Title: Exploring the Amorphous State of Matter by Roaming About the Network Building Blocks