1.  John Matthewson, Rutgers Professor, lightguide fiber mechanics and reliability:  http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mjohnm/mypage/index.html

2. The International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass (IMI-NFG) was established in August 2004 through an initiative of the National Science Foundation for enhancing research collaborations between US researchers and educators and their counterparts worldwide. It is also a collaboration between Lehigh University (Himanshu Jain) and Penn State University (Carlo Pantano). .

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inimif/home.htm

3.  Carlo Pantano, Materials Research Insitute at Penn State. The goal of MRI is to coordinate, support, and sponsor important and significant advances in materials science, materials engineering, and technological applications of materials for communications, computers, energy, manufacturing, medicine and transportation.

http://www.mri.psu.edu/

4.  Flow and Fracture in Advanced Glasses.  The scope of the workshop is to promote further international co-operation among scientists and engineers from different disciplines involved in the study of Flow and Fracture of Advanced Glasses.  

http://ffag4.org/

5.  Glass Manufacturing Industry Council.  The Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC) is a trade association of the U.S. Glass Industry that includes among its members, representatives of all four sectors: Flat, Container, Fiber and Specialty. GMIC, incorporated in September of 1998, is moving forward on a broad front to promote the interests and growth of the U.S. glass industry as a whole. Its formation represents a milestone development for the glass industry. Other industries (steel, aluminum, forest and paper products, etc.) have had organizations that have operated on behalf of the entire industry and have been very effective in consolidating benefits for the industry as a whole. Until the formation of the GMIC, the U.S. glass industry has had no "umbrella" body to represent its interests.

http://www.gmic.org

6.  International Glass Commision. ICG is a non-profit international GLASS SOCIETY consisting of 28 national organisations in glass science and technology

The aim of ICG is to promote cooperation between glass experts

ICG organises Technical Committee work (laboratory round robins, publication of scientific and technical papers)

ICG organises an International Congress on Glass every three years, and smaller annual meetings.

http://www.icg.group.shef.ac.uk/

TC6 subcomittere on mechanical properties:

http://www.icg.group.shef.ac.uk/tc6.html

7. The Society of Glass Technology.  The objects of the Society of Glass Technology are to encourage and advance the study of the history, art, science, design, manufacture, after treatment, distribution and end use of glass of any and every kind. These aims are furthered by meetings, publications, committees, the maintenance of a library and the promotion of association with other interested persons and organisations.

 http://www.sgt.org

8.  Dr. Satoshi YOSHIDA
Center for Glass Science and Technology
The University of Shiga Prefecture

http://glass-fracture-japan.org

9.  Dr. Claude Guillemet ( St. Gobain Recherche, retired)

http://claude-guillemet.com

10.  Dr. Hilar Aben, home page of the Laboratory for Photoelasticity.  Modern Photoelastic Technology for Residual Stress Measurement in Glass

http://ioc.ee/plab

and his company site.  GlasStress Ltd. is a manufacturer of internal residual stress measurement equipment for glass products. The target applications include automotive, architectural, container, tableware, lighting etc. industries.
http://www.glasstress.com

11.  Dr. David Green at Penn State

http://www.matse.psu.edu/fac/profiles/green.htm

12.  The Institut du Verre (Glass Institute of Paris) organises meetings and exchanges and acts as a knowledge and advice centre for all things concerning glass. Moreover, it represents the glass profession at industrial events and technical meetings. The Glass Institute of Paris is the representative of the glass profession at the ICG, of which it is a founding member.

http://www.institutduverre.fr/

13.  The CRITT Matériaux Alsace (Regional Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer in Materials) is an association dedicated to assisting companies in their product development. It specialises in materials, especially glass. Through its close ties with research centres and laboratories, CRITT is able to keep its clients abreast with the latest in technological innovations. Furthermore, CRITT is the main laboratory partner of the Institut du Verre.

http://www.critt.fr/

14.  Glass on the Web.    Glass News:

http://www.glassonweb.com/index.php

 15.  Glass Problems Conference.

http://www.matsceng.ohio-state.edu/glassproblems/

16.  Brian Lawn, NIST FELLOW

http://www.msel.nist.gov/lawn/

and for PDF's of his (very many) publications)

http://www.msel.nist.gov/lawn/Publications/Publication_List.htm

17.  Elisabeth BOUCHAUD (Drecam, Departement de Recherce sur l'Etat Condense les Atomes et les Molecules)

Understanding the relations between materials microstructure and their mechanical properties is of outmost importance in geophysics and for industrial design. Concerning material failure, the competition between stress enhancement in the vicinity of cracks and disorder in the material microstructure makes it rather complex to predict. However, the tools of out-of-equilibrium statistical physics provide the proper framework to describe crack growth. As for material failure, one seek to relate the rheology of plastic flows in disordered materials like e.g. oxyde glasses and granular matter to the microscopic constituents behaviour through a statistical description.

http://www-drecam.cea.fr/spcsi/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_sstheme.php?id_unit=8&id_ast=817

18.  Richard K. Brow, Curators' Professor
         Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology (MS&T)
         Department of Materials Science & Engineering
         110 Materials Research Center (Straumanis Hall)
         401 W. 16th St, Rolla, MO 65409
         Tel: (573) 341-6812; FAX: (573) 341-2071

         http://mse.mst.edu/facultystaffandfacilities/brow.html