Program & Invited Speakers

Welcome (9:00-9:30) - Chair Andrea CHIAPPINI

09:00 Ing. Andrea SIMONI Segretario Generale Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Prof.ssa Lidia ARMELAO Direttore CNR Dipartimento Scienze Chimiche e Tecnologie dei Materiali

Prof. Vincenzo M. SGLAVO Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale Università di Trento

Session (9:30-10:45) - Chair Gualtiero NUNZI CONTI

09:30 Maurizio FERRARI, Lectio Magistralis, "40 years of glass and glass-ceramics"

10:15 John BALLATO "Molten core fabrication of novel optical fibers"
(Clemson University, USA)

10:45 - 11:10 Coffee time

Session (11:10-12:45) - Chair Stefano TACCHEO

11:10 Francesco PRUDENZANO "Modeling of rare-earth activated optical fibers for future applications in Mid-IR wavelength range"
(DEI- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell`Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

11:40 Guglielmo MACRELLI "Ultra thin glass: how to provide extreme bendability to a brittle material"
(Isoclima Group, Italy)

12:10 Ilka KRIEGEL "Transparent conducting oxide nanocrystals for tunable optical applications"
(Italian Institute of Technology, Functional Nanosystems, Genova, Italy)

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch time

Session (14:30-15:30) - Chair Francesco SCOTOGNELLA

14:30 Anna LUKOWIAK "Bioactive glass for regenerative medicine and not only"
(PAS INTiBS, Poland)

15:00 Vincenzo M. SGLAVO "Chemical strengthening of glass: a couple of (probably) useful ideas"
(University of Trento, Italy)

Round table (15:30-17:00) - Chair Plinio INNOCENZI

15:30 Round table "Frontiers of research on glass"

participate Lidia ARMELAO; John BALLATO; Alessio BRUTTOMESSO (OPTOPRIM); Jan HOSTASA; Guglielmo MACRELLI (ISOCLIMA); Maurizio SBETTI (Adige BLMGroup); Vincenzo SGLAVO; Giacomo VILLOTTI (VETRI SPECIALI)

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee time

17:30 Closing remarks

Project Review Meeting CNR-PAS - Flexible Photonics

Project Review Meeting CANALETTO MAECI-NAWA - Chemical and physical deposition of photonic structures on flexible substrates