Symposium: Frontiers of Glass Technology

Scope of the Symposium:
All submissions and accepted talks should address innovative and relevant products and processes in the frontiers of glass technology. The invited speakers will be instructed to critically review and analyze the state-of-art of glass industries and products.

Abstracts on the following subjects may be submitted:

• Flat glass
• Hollow/container glass
• Fiber glass
• Specialty glasses
• Glass and communication
• Glass and Sustainability
• New melting concepts
• Energy and emissions in the glass industry
• Furnace equipment and refractories

Symposium Organizers:

• Chairman: Mathieu Hubert
  • Corning Inc.
  • E-mail: HubertM@corning.com
• Co-chair: Mauro Akerman ABCeram
  • ABCeram, Brazil
  • E-mail: mauro.akerman@gmail.com
• Co-chair: Eduardo Bellini Ferreira
  • USP, Brazil
  • E-mail: ebferreira@sc.usp.br

Tentative list of invited speakers:

• Mauro Lucio Nascimento – Coatings – Cebrace
• Prof. Dr. rer. Nat Christian Roos, RWTH Aachen: New approaches in batch to melt conversion for soda-lime-silica batches”
• Gabriel Noboa, Glass Service, Glass Industry 4.0
• Dr. Chiara Ferrari & Prof. Cristina Siligardi &, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, solar reflective tiles
• Prof. Ana Candida Martins Rodrigues, Federal University of São Carlos, Education in glass

Scientific Committee:

• Christian Roos - RWTH Aachen
• Erik Muijsenberg - Glas Service
• Hande Sesigur - Sisecam
• Neil Simpson - Consultant
• Terutaka Maehara - AGC
• Carlos Mazzotti - Verallia
• Catia Fredericci - IPT
• Cesar Rodrigues - Vichie
• Edison Toporcov - Wheaton
• Eduardo Bellini Ferreira - USP EESC
• Fábio dos Santos Bernardo - Consultant
• Gerson Cesar Balestero - Assinar
• Marcelo A. F. Guerra - SEFPRO
• Mauro Akerman - ABCeram
• Mauro Lucio N. Luiz - Cebrace
• Rita de Cássia Capato - Nadir
• Samuel Marcio Toffoli - USP Poli
• Thais Christy R. Sangaleti - UBV
• Thiago Metti - Raw