ICG International Congresses On Glass

Held every three years, the ICG Congresses are an important way of disseminating information on glass science and technology and provide valuable opportunities for glass scientists and technologists to meet. Since the late 1980s ICG Congresses have expanded significantly. They now attract 700 - 1000 attendees and up to 900 papers and posters. Their special features include:

1. Invited lectures reviewing major achievements not only in the traditional fields of glass science and technology, but also on new glass applications such as optics, photonics, electronics, nanotechnology, coating technology, biotechnology, and composites
2. and sessions organised by Technical Committees to review key aspects of their work.

Every three years ICG organises an International Congress on Glass. The XXV CONGRESS (2019) will be in Boston, USA. A list of previous Congress venues is given below.

In the years between its Congresses ICG organises an Annual Conference. In 2020 there will be ICG Conference in Krakow and in 2021 in South Korean. Although shorter than the Congresses, several Technical Committees will organise sessions based around their key activities and a full programme of papers will be presented.

Other organisations also run Glass Conferences. To add an event to our list and keep our list complete please contact: j.m.parker@sheffield.ac.uk. Also do ask to add an electronic poster and your press release after the event to the 'Other News' section of this web site.

Below is a list of those conferences we know about.

• The Angell International Symposium, dedicated to honoring the lifetime achievements of Prof. Austen Angell, will be held in Cyprus, October 23-27th, 2019.
• The 80th Conference on Glass Problems will be on 28-31st October 2019 in Columbus Ohio. 
• How to assess the structure of glasses?  Thematic school - Grenoble 18-22 November 2019.
• Şişecam International Glass Conference combined with the 34th Şişecam Glass Symposium on “Glass in the Sustainable Future: Achieving What is Possible”, Crowne Plaza Istanbul Asia Hotel, Istanbul, Nov 21-22, 2019.
• GLASSPRINT 2019 runs from  27-28th Nov 2019 in Dusseldorf, Germany and is dedicated to Glass Decoration
• Projects and Assembly of Refractory Materials, 27-28th November, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Course in Portuguese.
• AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, 9-13 December, 2019 on Redox Variables in Magmatism and Volcanism
• The 13th International Conference on Coatings on Glass and Plastics, March 23-26th 2020, Braunschweig, Germany
• Glass and Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting (GOMD 2020). May 17- 21th, 2020, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, United States.
• 15th International Ceramics Conference (CIMTEC) and 9th Forum on New Materials, 15-23rd June 2020, Montecatini  Terme, Italy.
• The 34th meeting of ATIV on 24-26th June 2020 will be a special international event entited "Where Glass Science, Art and Technology meet together" and will celebrate the appointment of Parma as the Italian Capital of Culture 2020
• 12th ICG Montpellier Summer School for research workers. 6-10th July 2020. Themes are Glass science & Glass fibres.
• ACerS newest meeting, Pan American Ceramics Conference, PACC-FMAs, July 19–23th 2020, Panama City, Panama
• Provisional date for SGT Annual Meeting in Cambridge, 7-9th September 2020
• 13th International Symposium on Crystallization in Glasses and Liquids is organized on 16-18 September 2020 in Paris
• The ICG meeting on 20-24th September 2020 will take place in Krakow, Poland and will also run alongside the ESG Annual Meeting
• 22nd International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses (ISNOG 2020), Hangzhou, China
• Please note the date for glasstec 2020: 20th - 23rd October in Düsseldorf/Germany
• 81st Conference on Glass Problems, 26-28th October, 2020, Greater Columbus Convention Centre, Ohio, USA. Abstracts by 29th January 9pm EST.
• 6th ICG Winter School in Wuhan, China from 1-7th November 2020.
• The 2021 ICG Annual Meeting will take place from 22nd to 25th August in Songdo ConventiA, Incheon, South Korea.
• ICG XXVI will be held at the Maritim Hotel in Berlin, Germany on 3-8 July 2022 on the occasion of the DGG centenary celebrations.

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