Thursday, October 19, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:20 PM
110 (American InterContinental University)
Relaxation and Transport in Strongly Non-Equilibrium Media (Invited)
This symposium will explore strongly non-equilibrium phenomena in various systems including: structural relaxations in supercooled liquids and glasses, and proteins; electric conductivity anomalies in glasses; long living mesoscopic structures in protein solutions.
Organizer:Vas Lubchenko
1:30 PMThe Theory of Glasses
Peter Wolynes
2:20 PMSelf-consistent phonon theory of the glass transition in a Lennard-Jones glass
Randall W. Hall
3:10 PMBreak
3:40 PMSmall-polaron model of electrical transport and switching in chalcogenide glasses
David Emin
4:30 PMGlass transition dynamics in water and other tetrahedral liquids: "order-disorder" transitions vs. "normal" glass transition
C. Austen Angell

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