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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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