Technical Offerings
Technical Papers Presentations
Sabrina Bélanger, of Memorial University of Newfoundland, hosts this year’s technical papers presentations. Each presenter has written a technical paper and will be discussing their subjects with the use of visual aids. This year’s topics and presenters are as follows: Paper Summaries
1) Bob Ponton – “Batman, The Lone Ranger and The Chemist”
2) Alexander V. Zabula and Tracy Drier – “Structure and Transformation of Glass”
3) Brian Markowicz – “Manufacture and Maintenance of Glassware Used in Isotopic Analysis”
4) Tsuyoshi Nakamura – “Making a Cube Trap”
5) Kevin Bennet and Steven Anderson – “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamonds for Deep Brain Stimulation”
6) Joseph S. Gregar- “A Few of My Favorite Hints That Could be Helpful”
7) Richard Ponton – “Design Mathematics for the Glass Shop II: the Dreaded Sequel.”
8) Erin Austerberry, Jennifer Langill and S. Elayne Ashley – “ My Experience at Salem College”
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Technical Demonstrations
Tracy Drier, of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, hosts this years technical demonstrations program. He’s lined up an incredible list of talented individuals who will be demonstrating the following subjects:
1) Dennis Briening, Salem Community College – “Apparatus for Sampling Viscous Materials at Desired Levels of Vessels”.
2) Hideaki Hashimoto, Tokyo Seisakusiyo Co.,LTD (Japan) – “Construction of Jacketed Reactor Without the Use of Internal Padding”.
3) Erich Moraine, Wild Rose Glass – “Jigs and Fixtures for Product Consistency”.
4) Sabrina Belanger, Memorial University of Newfoundland – “Construction of a glass blowhose swivel”.
5) Tim Drier, Dow Chemical – “The Use of a Torch Hip-Slide”.
6) Peter Schweifel, Glasobjekte SchweifelGlass (Germany) – “There’s No Business like Glass Business – The Unbearable Lightness of Entertainment”.
7. Christopher Bock, Sea Cube Co. – “Ring-Sealing a 3mm tube to a Flat Bottom”
8) Kyle Myer, Aldrich Chemical Company – “The Uses for a 2 arm Lathe Chuck”.
9) Chris Miller, University of Wisconsin – Madison – “Precision Nozzles Used For Beam Scattering Experiments Studying Chemistry at Gas/Liquid Surface Interface”.
10) Doug Navalinski, NavCor Scientific – “Glass Cutting at the Lathe”.
11) Tom Galbraith, Lumi Scientific – “Fuming Silver and Gold.”
12) Chris Miller, University of Wisconsin – Madison – “Multi-Layered, Benchtop Fusing of Dichroic Glass Incorporated into a Blown Form”.
13) Pat Smythe, Precision Glassblowing Of Colorado – “TBD”
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Technical Posters
Jim Hodgson, of Kansas State University, has put together a group of really great posters for this year’s posters presentation. In addition to the usual large scale posters, he has added a one 8.5” X 11” inch poster category as well. This has been done in the past and received a lot of positive feedback, both from presenters and symposium attendees alike. Current Poster Presenters and Titles
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