Glass Reflections
Glass in the Year of Light
7th to 9th September 2015
In the right hand column is a list of accepted papers for the Glass Reflections conference
identified by Presenting Author (in alphabetic order of surname) and paper title.
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Presenting Author (if this name is not highlighted, it indicates that the abstract
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Venue:
University of Cambridge
Murray Edwards College
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Invited Guest Speakers:
Alexis Clare
Alfred University
GlassArtEngineering; Unique Points of View Working Together
StephenElliott
University of Cambridge
Optical- and electrical-induced changes in chalcogenide glasses
Animesh Jha
University of Leeds
Interaction of near-IR pulsed Lasers with Biomineral Gels
for Enamel Restoration
Jonathan Knight
University of Bath
Hollow-core Microstructured Optical Fibres: reflections on tiny bits of glass
Tom Küpper
Lincoln Cathedral
"Preparing a Poultice' - Stained Glass Conservation
Bob Newport
Mellor Memorial Lecture
Glass: out of History and Art and into Tissue Regeneration
John Parker
University of Sheffield
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ...
Matt Tucker
XPDF and a step towards Complex Modelling
Cate Watkinson
University of Sunderland
From stained glass to solar; designing public artwork with glass and light
Presentations:
Oliver Alderman
Temperature dependent structure of molten borates:
testing the predictions of thermodynamic models
Benjamin Allsopp
The effects of Bi2O3 doping on the optical properties and structure of
soda lime silica glasses for photovoltaic applications
Saulo Alvarado
Experiments with Light and Glass: Art, Aesthetics and Technology
Emma Barney
Structure-property relationships in antimony based chalcogenide glasses
Paul Bingham
Incorporation of sulphate ions in silicate glasses
with implications for radioactive waste immobilisation
Delia Brauer
Crystallization of Er3+:BaGdF5 from aluminosilicate glasses
Telesilla Bristogianni
Maximizing the Transparency of a Structural Glass Masonry Wall
Lifeng Chen
Three-dimensional Chalcogenide photonic crystals
created by direct laser writing and chemical vapor deposition
Wenlin Chen
Ion distribution in nepheline glass: A molecular dynamics study
Jamie Christie
Understanding the solubility of bioactive phosphate-based glass
Glen Cook
New Specialty Glass Artist-in-Residence Program:
Corning Incorporated and Corning Museum of Glass
Richard Curry
Localised control of chalcogenide properties
Ferdinand Drünert
Calcium antimonates as opacifying agents in historical glass samples -
remelting experiments and in situ crystallization
Shelley Doolan
The synthesis of waterjet cutting technology with traditional glass-making
Edwin Flikkema
Ion dynamics in alkali-silicates: a Molecular Dynamics study
Ondrej Gedeon
Reflections about Molecular dynamics and glass transition
Francesca Giubilei
Fragments of a Discourse on Light and Glass
A Close View on the Exhibition Within Light/ Inside Glass
Elena Granuzzo
Glass Reflection in Venice in the XVIII and XIX centuries
Elzbieta Greiner-Wronowa
Alteration of Historic Glass - Metal Objects
caused by Volatile Organic Compounds in Museum Environments
Lawan Grema
The effects of composition on the thermophysical and
structural properties of barium strontium aluminosilicate glasses
John V Hanna
The Combination of Experimental Solid State NMR and Computational First Principles MD and DFT: A New Approach for the Structure Determination of Oxide Glasses.
Alex Hannon
The Structure of Arsenic Sulphide Glasses:
Evidence for Tetrahedral Units?
Gillian Hobson
Beyond the Object: interplays of the digital and the material
Barbora Holubová
Investigation on protective hybrid silica coatings on historical glass:
Comparative study and new approaches
Josef Hormes
The corrosion of stained glass:
a chemical analysis using synchrotron radiation based X-ray absorption
and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
Mel Howse
Creative Industrial Vitreous Enamels
Norfadhilah Ibrahim
Compositional property relationships in boroaluminosilicate glasses
Shelley James
Essential symmetries - crystallography and glass
Gin Jose
Highly dense rare-earth silicates by femtosecond laser generated plasma processing
Suraya Kamil
Implantation of erbium doped TeO2-ZnO-Na2O glass into silicon for gain media in silicon photonics
Efstratios Kamitsos
Second harmonic generation in oxide glasses by electro-thermal poling
Ajoy Kumar Kar
3D Nonlinear Chalcogenide Devices
Safa Kasap
Development of Sm-Doped Glass-Ceramics for High-Dose,
High-Resolution Dosimetry in Microbeam Radiation Therapy
at the Canadian Light Source
Khouler Khan
Achieving low loss chalcogenide glasses
Craig Kennedy
Skills and materials used in the development of Scottish window glass
Markus Kleine
Glasmalerei Peters GmbH, Paderborn
Walls of Light:
The Art of Dalle de Verre and the Current Conservation Problems
Eve Koha
Lighting a Fire in Theophilus' Kiln:
the Theophilus Glass Painting Kiln Phenomenon Today
Oksana Kondratyeva
In Search of Light: Glass! Science! Art!
Cyril Koughia
The influence of radiation diffusion (radiation trapping)
on spectra and measured lifetimes of
4F9/2 -4I115/2,
4I9/2 -4I15/2,
4I11/2 -4I15/2
and 4I13/2 -4I15/2
emission bands in GeGaS glasses doped with erbium
Ajoy Kumar Kar
3D Nonlinear Chalcogenide Devices
Godwin Makeri
Mirror Desilvering: An Elixir to Modern Art and Visual Perception
Julia Malle
Where Neon meets Scientific glassblowing
Antonio Pires de Matos
Playing with borosilicate luminescent glasses
Maricruz Medina
Conservation and restoration of archaeological glass:
possibilities of LASER technology
Ekarat Meechoowas
Spectroscopic studies of neodymium doped soda-lime silicate glass
Hans Meindl
Painting with light - Mouth blown glass in art and architecture
Joanne Mitchell
Contouring the Air Bubble:
Complex Air Entrapment, Clarity and Content
in Kiln-formed Glass Art
Vinita Mittal
High contrast mid-infrared chalcogenide waveguides for biosensing applications
Faiz Mohd-Noor
Isotope Substitution Neutron Diffraction Study of the
Lithium and Tellurium Environments
in Binary Li2O-TeO2 Glasses
Doris Möncke
IR, Raman and NMR spectroscopic study
on the connectivity of borate and silicate groups
in sodium-borosilicate glasses
Gavin Mountjoy
Getting more light from luminescence of lanthanide doped glasses
Michael Ojovan
Mass spectrometric evidencing on
modified random network microstructure and medium range order
Jiri Orava
Fragility crossover in chalcogenide glass-forming liquids: Importance for phase-change memory application
Tyra Oseng-Rees
Exploring the aesthetic potential for fused recycled glass
Serena Panighello
Investigation of glass leaching processes by laser ablation ICP-MS
A selection of case studies
Inge Panneels
Blue Marble
Maxime Paraillous
Thermal poling structural characterization for soda-lime glass
Karishma Patel
Radiation effects on phase transformations in
borosilicate nuclear waste glasses
Uresha Patel
Strontium enriched phosphate based glass microspheres
for orthopaedic applications
Maha Rai
Molecular dynamics modelling of the structure of
Barium Zirconium Fluoride glasses BaF2-ZrF4
Stuart Reid
Protective infrared antireflection coating for chalcogenide glass
Carlos Rios
Phase-change chalcogenide photonics
Bridget Stewart
Scattering light using glasses and crystals in order to optimise
the surface quality of continuously cast steels
Martina Stoica
Photo induced crystallization of CaF2 from a
Na2O/ K2O/ CaO/ Al2O3
/ CaF2/ SiO2 glass
Wayne Strattman
Researches in Glass and Lighting Technology for Sculpture and Design
Laura Swansbury
Molecular dynamics modelling of ZnCl2 glass
Natalia Vedishcheva
The structure of phase-separated sodium borosilicate glasses:
a quantitative thermodynamic approach
Fred Veer
Glass structures, the possibilities in the 21th century
UlrikeVeit
Density, Young's Modulus and Viscosity of Glasses Close to the
Eutectic Composition in the
CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-System
Tomas Wagner
Nanoscale Memories in Chalcogenide Glass Films
Adrian Wright
A Thermodynamically-Based Structural Model for the Cationic
Conductivity and Mixed-Modifier Effect in Borate Glasses
David Wright
Exploiting Mixed-Mode Optical-Electrical Functionality in Chalcogenide Glasses