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Seminar
Speaker
Saurish Chakrabarty (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
Date & Time
Fri, 05 August 2016, 11:15 to 12:15
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract

The glass transition problem has puzzled many physicists, chemists and engineers for avery long time. When liquids of very different kinds are supercooled, they exhibit slowdynamics and become (non-crystalline) solids at some temperature Tg which depends onthe cooling rate and the material being cooled. This temperature goes down withdecreasing cooling rate and approaches a value TK in the limit of slow cooling. I willpresent an introduction to the phenomenology of the glass transition problem and a fewpopular theories that try to explain it. I will then introduce the Random First OrderTransition (RFOT) theory of the ideal glass transition. With this background, I willpresent some tests of the RFOT theory based on simulations of supercooled liquids inthe presence of random pinning.