Fourth São Carlos School on Glasses and Glass-Ceramics

The CeRTEV team, in collaboration with ICTP-SAIFR (IFT-UNESP), is pleased to announce the Fourth São Carlos School on Glasses and Glass-ceramics, to be held from April 27 to May 1, 2026, following the great success of the previous editions held in 2015, 2023 and 2024. This School is part of a series organized yearly by the International Commission on Glass (ICG) in Montpellier, Wuhan and Kolkata.

School objectives

· Provide state-of-the-art knowledge on the structure and dynamic processes of glasses and glass-ceramics (diffusion, viscous flow, relaxation, liquid-liquid phase separation, and crystallization), as well as their optical, electrical, mechanical, and biochemical properties.

· Strengthen the international network of CeRTEV collaborators.

· Attract future students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting scientists, while fostering collaborative research.

· Disseminate CeRTEV’s faculty, infrastructure, and research facilities to Brazilian and international students and their supervisors.

· Emphasize networking as a key component of school.A small registration fee of USD 290 is required to attend the school. However, we are pleased to offer 50 grants that will waive the registration fee, cover hotel accommodation for up to seven nights, and provide lunch expenses for selected students and postdoctoral researchers.

Registration deadline: October 30, 2025