Tutorial Lectures

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I. Introductory Level Lectures on Glass

• Guided Photons, Waveguides & Applications by Prof. Animesh Jha, University of Leeds, UK
  (PDF Slides, Parts 1 & 2 / Video Presentations: Part 1 & Part 2)

• Nobody Sees Glasses; Only Glass Scientists See Glasses by Minoru Tomozawa, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  (PDF Slides, Parts 1 & 2 / Video Presentations: Part 1 & Part 2)

II. Technical Tutorials

• Amorphous & Glassy Chalcogenides: High-tech Materials for Optics, Optoelectronics, Biology and Medicine by Prof. Miloslav Frumar, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
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• Glass structure by infrared spectroscopy by Prof. Stratos Kamitsos, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
  (PDF Slides / Video Presentation)

• Glass as Template to Generate Nanostructure by Dr. D. Chakravorty, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Bangalore, India
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• Nuclear magnetic Resonance Basics by Prof. Otmar Kanert, University of Dortmund, Germany
  (Video Presentation; no slides available for this presentation)
  
  
• Nuclear magnetic Resonance: Applications by Prof. Otmar Kanert, University of Dortmund, Germany
  (Video Presentation; no slides available for this presentation)

III. Lectures from the Flow & Fracture of Advanced Glasses Conference at Penn State University, October 2005

• Fractal Geometry Applied To Fracture by J. J. Mecholsky, Jr., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  (Video Presentation; Part 1 / Video Part 2 / Video Part 3 / Video Part 4 )
  (Slides are still under production)

• Densification of Fused Silica by Stress or Laser Irradiation by John C. Lambropoulos, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
  (PDF Slides / Video Presentations: Part 1 & Part 2)

IV. A Five-Lecture Series on Tellurite Glasses, Lehigh University, December 2005)

• Tellurite Glass Introduction by Prof. Raouf El-Mallawany, Minufiya University, Egypt
  (PDF Slides / Video Presentation)
  
  
• Tellurite Glass History by Prof. Raouf El-Mallawany, Minufiya University, Egypt
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• Elastic & Thermal Properties by Prof. Raouf El-Mallawany, Minufiya University, Egypt
  (PDF Slides / Video Presentation)

• Electrical and Dielectric Properties by Prof. Raouf El-Mallawany, Minufiya University
  (PDF Slides / Video Presentation)

• Optical Properties by Prof. Raouf El-Mallawany, Minufiya University, Egypt
  (PDF Slides / Video Presentation)

V. Other Glass-Related Tutorial Lectures

• Ionic Motion in Materials with Disordered Structures by Prof. Klaus Funke, University of Muenster , Germany
  (Video Part 1: Materials & Phenomena) (Video Part 2: Dynamics of Ions In Motion )

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