| School on Glass Formers and Glasses, January 4-20, 2010, JNCASR, Bengaluru, India | ||||
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| Day | Time | Lecturer | Lecture Topic | |
| Monday, Jan 4 |
8:45-9:15 | Registration | ||
| 9:15-9:30 | Opening Remarks | |||
| 9:30-10:45 | C. Austen Angell |
Broader aspects and grand challenges of the slow dynamics and glass transition problem |
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| 10:45- 11:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:15-12:30 | Gilles Tarjus |
What is there to be explained about glasses and glassformers? Facts, questions, views Part 1 |
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| 12:30 - 2:30 | Lunch | |||
| 2:30 - 3:45 | Gilles Tarjus |
What is there to be explained about glasses and glassformers? Facts, questions, views Part 2 |
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| 3:45 - 4:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 4:15 - 5:30 | Gilles Tarjus | Interactive Session | ||
| Tuesday, Jan 5 |
9:00 - 10:15 | Walter Kob |
Description of structure, dynamics and response in liquids: time correlations, transport quantities |
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| 10:15 -10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:45 -12:00 | Walter Kob | Survey of theories of glassy behavior | ||
| 12:00 -12:30 | C Austen Angell | Seminar talk | ||
| 12:30 - 2:30 | Lunch | |||
| 2:30 - 3:45 | Ranjini Bandyopadhyay | Experimental techniques 1: Rheology and dielectric spectroscopy | ||
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 4:15 - 5:30 | Jaydeep Basu | Experimental techniques 1: DSC, MDSC, Imaging techniques | ||
| Wednesday, Jan 6 | 9:00 - 10:15 |
Kenneth Kelton |
Liquid and Glass Structures and Physical Properties |
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| 10:15 -10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:45 -12:00 | Kenneth Kelton |
Nucleation of First-order Phase Transitions |
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| 12:00 -12:30 | Discussion / Seminar | |||
| 12:30 - 2:30 | Lunch | |||
| 2:30 - 3:45 | Peter H. Poole |
Glass formation and crystal nucleation in supercooled liquids: insights from simulations |
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| 3:45 - 4:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 4:15 - 5:30 | Peter H. Poole |
Glass formation and crystal nucleation in supercooled liquids: insights from simulations |
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| Thursday, Jan7 |
9:00 - 10:15 | Srikanth Sastry |
The potential energy landscape approach to understanding glass forming liquids |
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| 10:15 -10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:45 -12:00 | Srikanth Sastry |
The potential energy landscape approach to understanding glass forming liquids |
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| 12:00 -12:30 | One Slide Presentation on Posters | |||
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Poster Session | |||
| 2:30 - 3:45 | David Wales |
Energy landscapes: From Clusters to Supercooled Liquids and Glasses |
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| 3:45 - 4:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 4:15 - 5:30 | David Wales | Energy landscapes: From Clusters to Supercooled Liquids and Glasses | ||
| Friday, Jan8 |
9:00 - 10:15 | Chandan Dasgupta | Introduction to the theory of Spin Glasses | |
| 10:15 -10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:45 -12:00 | Chandan Dasgupta | Density functional theory of structural glasses | ||
| 12:00 -12:30 | Subodh Shenoy | Seminar talk | ||
| 12:30 - 2:30 | Lunch | |||
| 2:30 - 3:45 | Marc Mezard | Glasses and Replicas | ||
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Coffee Break | |||
| 4:15 - 5:30 | Marc Mezard | Glasses and Replicas | ||
| Saturday, Jan 9 |
9:00 - 10:15 | Biman Bagchi | Dynamics of Dense Liquids - A Short Course on Mode Coupling Theory and Essential Pre-requisite | |
| 10:15 -10:45 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:45 -12:00 | Biman Bagchi | Dynamics of Dense Liquids - A Short Course on Mode Coupling Theory and Essential Pre-requisite | ||