The symposium welcomes contributions on the following topics:

• Fundamental approaches to nucleation and crystal growth in glasses and liquids (the interplay of theory, modelling and experiment)
• Experimental studies of crystallization in glasses and liquids (compositional and structural influences)
• Developments and novel nucleation/crystallization processes (spray melting, photo- and laser-induced crystallization, sol-gel routes, magnetic-field-induced nucleation)
• Crystallization phenomena in natural glasses, melts and amorphous materials (polymers, sol-gel materials, metallic glasses, thin films)
• Relationships between glass structure and nucleation (liquid phase separation, heterogeneities, role of nucleating agents)
• Role of nucleation agents in glasses and liquids (halogens, rare-earth and transition-metal oxides, noble metals)
• Advanced methods, techniques and characterization tools (in-situ, real-time, high spatial and temporal resolution, detection sensitivity)
• Properties of glass-ceramics (thermal, mechanical, electrical, optical and chemical properties)
• New glass-ceramics and applications (environmentally friendly glass-ceramics and functional glass-ceramics)