| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 4/13, 11:00 a.m. |
All |
Organizational Meeting |
| 4/13, 11:30 a.m. |
Martin Einhorn
KITP Deputy Director |
What are Wikis Good For?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/13, 12:30 p.m. |
Mike Cates
Edinburgh Univ. & KITP |
Glass Rheology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/14, 11:00 a.m. |
Sidney Yip
MIT & KITP |
Calculating Viscosity, Fragility, Transition from Viscous Flow to Creep[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/16, 11:00 a.m. |
Jack Douglas
NIST & KITP |
Influence of Nanoparticles and Molecular Additives on the Fragility a Polymer Glass-Formation- A Combined MD and Analytic Study[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 03/22, 12:15 p.m. |
Sri Sastry
JNCASR & KITP |
The Physics of Glasses[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 4/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Thomas Voigtmann
German Aerospace Center (DLR) & KITP |
Connecting Microscopic Dynamics and Macroscopic Material Properties: The Case of Stress Overshoot and Transient Dynamics |
| 4/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Jim Langer
UCSB |
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and STZs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/22, 10:45 a.m. |
Konrad Samwer
Univ. Goettingen & KITP |
Glass Transition and Shear Modulus in Amorphous Metallic Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/26, 2:00 p.m. |
V. Kumaran
Indian Inst. of Science & KITP |
Discussion: Entropy and Free Volume Distributions in Hard Particle Fluids |
| 4/27, 12:30 p.m. |
Peter Sollich
King's College & KITP |
Exploring Soft Glassy Rheology: Mesoscopic Analysis of Simulation Data, and Effective Temperature Dynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/28, 10:30 a.m. |
Daan Frenkel
FOM |
Configurational Entropy of Hard Particle Systems |
| 4/29, 10:45 a.m. |
Daniel Miracle
Air Force Research Lab & KITP |
Metallic Glass Structures: Efficient Packing of Unequal Spheres[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4/30, 10:30 a.m. |
Sri Sastry
JNCASR & KITP |
Two Short Seminars On: i. Glass Forming Ability and ii. Jamming[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Arlette Baljon
SDSU & KITP |
Dynamical Heterogeneity in Thin Polymeric Films: The Least Mobile Clusters and Their Possible Role in the Glass Transition[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/04, 12:30 p.m. |
Sankar Das
Jawaharlal Nehru & KITP |
Time Dependent Correlations in a Supercooled Liquid From Nonlinear Fluctuating Hydrodynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/06, 10:45 a.m. |
Kay Wiese
École Normale Sup. & KITP |
Avalanche-size Distributions From Field Theory[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Tetsu Ichitsubo
Kyoto Univ. & KITP |
Elastic Heterogeneity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/11, 12:30 p.m. |
Takeshi Egami
Univ. Tennessee & KITP |
Introduction to Metallic Glasses: Superficial and Fundamental Differences From Other Glasses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/12, 10:30 a.m. |
Corey O'Hern
Yale & KITP |
Highly Anharmonic Solids: Vibrations in Jammed Materials[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/13, 10:45 a.m. |
Wei Hua Wang
Chinese Academy & KITP |
Relating Activation of Shear Transformation Zones to b-Relaxations in Metallic Glasses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/14, 10:30 a.m. |
Patrick Charbonneau
Duke Univ. |
How Hard Is It To Form A Glass? Insights From Beyond 3D[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Archana Lakhani
UGC-DAE & KITP |
Magnetic Glasses: An Introduction |
| 5/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Michael Falk
JHU & KITP |
Simulations and Theory of Shear Banding in Amorphous Solids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/19, 10:30 a.m. |
Gilles Tarjus
Univ P&M Curie & KITP |
The Frustration-based Theoretical Approach of the Glass Transition[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/20, 10:45 a.m. |
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis Univ. & KITP |
Fluctuations, Entropy and "Temperature" of Jammed Grain Packings[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/21, 10:30 a.m. |
David Rodney
Grenoble Tech. & KITP |
Thermally-Activated Events in a Glass From Atomic-Scale Simulations: Relation Between STZs and Beta-Relaxations (continued)[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Peter Schall
UvA & KITP |
Colloidal Glasses: 3D Analogue Computers for Studying Flow and Shear Banding in Amorphous Solids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Surajit Sengupta
IACS & KITP |
Dynamical Heterogeneity, Jamming and Plasticity in Solid-Solid Nucleation[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/25, 12:30 p.m. |
Chandan Dasgupta
Indian Institute & KITP |
Length Scales Related to Alpha and Beta Relaxation In Glass-Forming Liquids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/26, 10:30 a.m. |
Robert Hoy
Yale & KITP |
Molecular Plasticity: The Crossover From Perfect-Plastic Flow to Polymeric Strain Hardening[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/27, 10:30 a.m. |
Damien Vandembroucq
ESPCI & KITP |
Strain Localization and Anisotropic Correlations in a Mesoscopic Model of Amorphous Plasticity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5/28, 10:30 a.m. |
Charusita Chakravarty
IITD & KITP |
Excess Entropy Scaling of Transport Properties of Liquids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/01, 2:00 p.m. |
C. Austen Angell
ASU |
Thermodynamic and Dynamic Couplings in Glassforming Liquids (molecular and metallic, covalent, and ionic): Some New Findings, Some New Insights[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/02, 12:30 p.m. |
Zohar Nussinov
Wash Univ.-St. Louis & KITP |
Local Dynamics and Glass Type Transitions- Applications in the Study of 4He[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/03, 10:30 a.m. |
Jörg Rottler
UBC & KITP |
A Microscopic View of Physical Aging and Plastic Deformation in Amorphous Solids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Craig Maloney
Carnegie Mellon & KITP |
Avalanches and Diffusion: From Lennard-Jones Glasses to Bubble Rafts Near Jamming[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/09, 10:30 a.m. |
Kenneth Schweizer
UIUC & KITP |
Activated Hopping, Dynamic Heterogeneity, and Mechanical Response in Particle Fluids and Suspensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/10, 10:30 a.m. |
Michael Widom
Carnegie Mellon & KITP |
First Principles Simulations of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/11, 10:30 a.m. |
Karin Dahmen
UIUC & KITP |
Avalanches and Universality in Condensed Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/15, 10:30 a.m. |
Mark Robbins
JHU & KITP |
Discussion on the Effects of Stress and Temperature on the Rate of Plastic Events[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/16, 10:30 a.m. |
V. Kumaran
Indian Inst. of Science & KITP |
From Kinetic Theory to Jamming: Dynamical Arrest in Sheared Hard Particle Fluids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/16, 2:00 p.m. |
All |
Informal Discussion: Useful Models and Methods for Studying Glassy Materials[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/17, 10:30 a.m. |
Herbert Schober
FZ Juelich & KITP |
Strings and Soft Modes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/18, 10:30 a.m. |
Thomas Schroeder
Roskilde Univ. & KITP |
Strong Virial / Potential Energy Correlations, and the Many Consequences for Viscous Liquids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/21-25 |
Conference: |
Emerging Concepts in Glass Physics |
| 6/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Akira Furukawa
Univ. of Tokyo & KITP |
What Time Scale Is Responsible For Rheological Properties In Glassy Liquids?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/29, 12:30 p.m. |
Douglas Durian
Univ. Penn & KITP |
Growth Of Dynamical Heterogeneities On Approach To Jamming For Grains and Soft Colloids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6/30, 10:30 a.m. |
Lisa Manning
Princeton & KITP |
Identifying "Soft Spots" In Amorphous Materials Under Quasi-Static Shear[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/01, 10:30 a.m. |
Eric Daub
UCSB |
Scaling Of Stick-Slip Instabilities In Granular Materials[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/07, 10:30 a.m. |
Lisa Manning
Princeton & KITP |
How Does Surface Tension Emerge From Structure in Biological Tissues?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 7/08, 10:30 a.m. |
Horacio Castillo
Ohio Univ. & KITP |
Does Dynamical Heterogeneity Originate in Fluctuations of the Time Variable?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
