IMI Day and NSF Site Visit
Lehigh University
Site Visit Team
Professor Dunbar Birnie, Rutgers University
Professor Doreen Edwards, Alfred University College of Ceramics
Professor George Scherer, Princeton University
Dr. Tayyab Suratwala, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NSF Staff
Dr. Carmen Huber, Office of Special Programs, Division of Materials Research
-SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday, October 15
Afternoon Arrival and check-in at Sayre Inn Mansion
Tuesday, October 16
7:00 am Full breakfast at Sayre Mansion Inn
7:45 am Transfer from hotel to Lehigh campus (by Himanshu)
8:00 am Executive Session for Site Visit Team with coffee & pastry (Media Center 370d)
8:45 am Break
9:00 am NSF IMI overview/ Site Visit purpose/Introductions
Dr. Carmen Huber, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation
9:05 am Welcome Remarks
Dr. Mohamed S. El-Aasser, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Lehigh University
9:15 am Overview of the International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass
Prof. Himanshu Jain, Director, IMI-NFG
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:30 am International Exchange and Conference Travel Programs
Moderator: Prof. Carlo Pantano, Co-Director, IMI-NFG (20-minute presentations, Q & A)
A New Functionality for Glass: Fast Ion Conducting Chalcogenide Glasses as New High Capacity Reversible Lithium Battery Anodes
by Prof. Steve Martin, Iowa State University
Interaction of PTR Glass and PTR Glass Volume Bragg Gratings with Femtosecond Pulses
by Mr. Leo Siiman, University of Central Florida
International Research & Education Program at University of Arizona
by Prof. Pierre Lucas, University of Arizona
Characterization of GeSbSe chalcogenide thin films grown by GLAD
by Prof. Raul Martin-Palma, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Coordination-Topological Defects in Chalcogenide Glasses Probed by High-Resolution XPS by Prof. Oleh Shpotyuk, Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Materials, Ukraine
Determining Nanoscale Order in Amorphous Materials via Fluctuation Electron Microscopy
by Ms. Stephanie Bogle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
12:30 pm Buffet Lunch (Rm. 303, University Center)
1:45 pm Industry Participation, Education and Outreach Programs (Media Center Rm. 379)
Moderator: Prof. Carlo Pantano, Co-Director, IMI-NFG, (20 – 25 minute presentations, Q & A)
Recent Advances and Opportunities in Glass and Glass Ceramic Research
by Dr. David Morse, Senior Vice President, Corning, Inc.
Educational Cooperative Glass Course - Progress in Educational Goals of IMI
by Prof. Kathleen Richardson, Clemson University
The Pennsylvania Glass Trail
by Ms. Diane LaBelle, Executive Director, GoggleWorks, Reading, PA
Outreach to Pre-college students
by Dr. William Heffner, IMI-NFG Associate Director
3:45 pm Poster Session with cookies and refreshments (Neville Lobby)
5:00 pm Executive Session for Site Visit Team (Media Center Rm. 370d)
6:00 pm Site Visit Team meets with IMI senior participants
6:30 pm Dinner Banquet with Site Review team (Mountaintop Tower)
Wednesday, October 17
9 am Tour of Lehigh’s state-of-the-art Electron Optics Lab, Scienta, ESCA, etc. for invited participants
For Site Visit Team and IMI-NFG Director and Co-Director only
Full Breakfast at the hotel
7:00 am Transfer from hotel to campus
8:00 am Executive Session / Meeting with IMI Director & Co-Director
(Media Center Rm. 370d with coffee & pastry)
9:00 am Executive Session for Site Visit Team
12:00 noon Working Lunch, Site Visit Team Report Writing Session
1:30 pm Debriefing with IMI Director
3:00 pm End of Site Visit