Emerging Concepts in Glass Physics

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Emerging Concepts in Glass Physics, KITP, June 21 - 25, 2010

While theoretical puzzles regarding the origin of the glass transition remain grand challenges for statistical and condensed matter physics, interest in glasses has expanded. This has resulted in a flowering of investigations regarding the origin of aging, fragility and dynamic heterogeneity, the prediction of glass formability and the response of glasses to mechanical stress and induced flow. A number of recent developments make this an exciting time for understanding the physics of glasses. New computational methodologies and increased computing power have made it possible to test the fundamental assumptions of well-developed theories. New experimental techniques have been developed for characterizing the structure of glasses. Glasses find applications in a wide variety of contexts, and materials engineering of glasses continues to bring issues of fundamental importance to the fore. Significant advances in metallic glass alloy development have moved these materials to the threshold of application and serve as a recent case-in-point.

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