Invited Speakers

Plenary Speakers

• Minoru Tomozawa (Rensselaer PI, NY, USA)
  "Effects of Water on Glass Properties"
• Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku Univ.,  Sendai, JP)
  "The EDFA Odyssey"
• Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Tech, Tokyo, JP)
  "Electride Glass: heroic role of electron anion"

Invited Speakers of General sessions

• Martin Richardson (Univ. Central Florida, FL, USA)
  "Glass and ceramics challenges for the next generation of high power lasers"
• Jacques Lucas (Univ. Rennes, Rennes, FR)
  "Rare Earths Doped Sulfur Glasses for CO2 Sensing"
• John Ballato (Clemson Univ., SC, USA)
  "Materials solutions to parasitic effects in fiber lasers and amplifiers - towards the perfect optical fiber"
• Shibin Jiang (Advalue Photonics, AZ, USA)
  "High Peak Power Fiber Lasers and Their Applications"
• Kathleen Richardson (Univ. Central Florida, FL, USA)
  "Optical Glass Ceramics for GRIN - engineering microstructure for optical function"
• Jong Heo (POSTEC, Pohang, KR)
  "Clustering of rare-earth oxides in PbS quantum dots precipitated in glasses"
• Yasutake Ohishi (Toyota TI, Nagoya, JP)
  "Supercontinuum and parametric amplification using soft glass highly nonlinear optical fibers"
• Mathieu Allix (CNRS, Univ., Orle'ans, FR)
  "Recent progress in transparent ceramics synthesized by full crystallization from glass"
• Junji Nishii (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, JP)
  "Behavior of alkali and alkaline-earth ions in silicate glasses under DC voltage application"
• Masahiro Tatsumisago (Osaka Pref. Univ., Sakai, JP)
  "Glass-Based All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries"
• Wolfram Höland (Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Schaan, LI)
  "Combination of different properties in glass-ceramics via controlled nucleation and crystallization of different crystal phases"
• Takunori Taira (Inst. Molecular Sci., Okazaki, JP)
  "Giant micro-photonics for energy solutions"
• Kohei Soga (Tokyo Univ. Sci., Tokyo, JP)
  "Design and Application of Ceramics Nanoparticles for Near Infrared Biophotonics"
• Pierre Lucas (Arizona Univ., AZ, USA)
  "Chalcogenide Glasses for Infrared Photonics"
• Hiromitsu Kozuka (Kansai Univ., Suita, JP)
  "A new class of glassy materials composed of chemically modified metal oxo-oligomers"
• Francesco Gonella (Ca' Foscari Univ., Venezia, IT)
  "The science of glass and the art of glassmaking: still an entwined story"
• Younes Messaddeq (Univ. Laval, Quebec, CA)
  "Advances in Glassy Materials and Multifucntionnel optical fibers"
• Gerhard Fasol (Eurotechnology Japan K.K., Tokyo, JP)
  "Puzzles of Glass"
• Seiichi Suda (Shizuoka Univ., Shizuoka, JP)
  " Chemical mechanical polishing of glass"

Glass Industry Session of GIC12 ; "Glass Melting"

• Manoj Choudhary (Owens-Corning Science & Technology, OH, USA)
  "Glass Process and Product Innovation through Computational transport Phenomena"
• Reinhard Conradt (RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, GE)
  "A scaling-up strategy from lab experiments towards the industrial melting process - process optimization and glass development"
• Hisashi Kobayashi (Praxair, CT, USA)
  "Thermochemical heat recovery for oxy-fuel fired glass furnaces "OPTIMELT PLUS" technology"
• Irene Peterson (Corning Inc., NY, USA)
  "Reaction Kinetics During the Batch-to-Melt Conversion"
• Osamu Sakamoto (Asahi Glass, Yokohama, JP)
  "In-flight melting technology"
• Masataka Kawaguchi (Nippon Electric Glass, Otsu, JP)
  "Role of fining agents in glass melting process"
• Toru Sugawara (Akita Univ., Akita, JP)
  "Heat capacity and thermal expansivity of glass melts"