The 9th International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts and the 2nd International Conference on Phosphate Materials will be held sequentially on 24-28 July, 2017, at St Anne's College, Oxford.

The Borate Conference is a forum for the discussion of current scientific research on borate materials (with a chemical composition that includes B2O3, B2S3 or B2Se3). The Borate Conference will be held on 24-26 July 2017. The 9th Borate Conference will be held in honour of Professor Steve Fellerof Coe College, Iowa, USA, in recognition of his unique contribution to the study of borate materials.

The Phosphate Conference is a forum for the discussion of current scientific research on phosphate materials (research on phosphate- and phosphate-containing materials, including P-O, P-S, P-Se and P-O-N networks). The Phosphate Conference will be held on 26-28 July 2017.

In 2014 the Borate and Phosphate Conferences were held sequentially in Pardubice, Czech Republic - see previous conference website .
The Conferences are being organised by the Society of Glass Technology, and the chairman of the local organising committee is  Dr Emma Barney of the University of Nottingham. The Borate International Organising Committee is chaired by Professor Alex Hannon of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and the Phosphate  International Organising Committee is chaired by  Professor Richard Brow of Missouri University of Science & Technology.