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What is new?
- 3 Dec. 2007, PROCEEDINGS page is open.
- 15 Nov. 2007, PDFs and photos are now uploaded.
- 1 Nov. 2007, Final program is uploaded.
- 22 Oct. 2007, Registration Closed.
- 17 Oct. 2007, Final Program is uploaded.
- 20 Sep. 2007, Preliminary Program is uploaded.
- 2 Aug. 2007, You can submit a post-deadline paper.
- 29 Jun. 2007, Deadline for submitting an abstract was extended again to 31 July.
- 2 Jun. 2007, Deadline for submitting an abstract was extended to 30 June.
- 26 Apr. 2007, PAYMENT page is open in REGISTRATION.
- 27 Dec. 2006, FFAG4 web site is now available.
Thank you to all for making FFAG4 a success!

See you in FFAG5 held in Canada France.
FFAG5 will be held in 2011 in St. Malo, France. Please visit the website.
Scope of the workshop
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.
The materials and topics of interest include:
- chalcogenide, fluoride, oxide, oxynitride, oxycarbides, bulk metallic glasses, glass fibers, surface-modified glasses, glass-ceramics, hybrids;
- physics, mechanics, chemistry of fracture, fracture surface analysis, fatigue, strength;
- elasticity, anelasticity, hardness, brittleness, creep and viscous flow.
Scientific Committee
- D. Green, Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA)
- S. Hampshire, Univ. of Limerick (UK)
- C. Kurkjian, Rutgers Univ. (USA)
- C. Pantano, Pennsylvania State Univ. (USA)
- R. Raj, Colorado Univ. (USA)
- T. Rouxel, Univ. de Rennes1 (France)
- G. Soraru, Univ. Trento (Italy)
- S. Wiederhorn, NIST (USA)
- J. Matsuoka, Univ. Shiga Pref. (Japan) (Conference Chair)
- S. Yoshida, Univ. Shiga Pref. (Japan) (Conference Secretary)