[2/21]AIMR Workshop Structure and Dynamics of Glasses

02/17/2016

WPI-AIMR Workshop Structure and Dynamics of Glasses

Date

Feb. 21st (Sunday), 2016

Organizers

Mingwei Chen & Takeshi Egami

program

    • 8:50-9:00 Welcome and Introduction, Mingwei Chen

    • Session Chair: Takeshi Egami
    • 9:00-9:30 Lindsay Greer (University of Cambridge)
      “Extending the range of the glassy state in metals”
    • 9:30-10:00 Konstantinos Georgarakis (AIMR, Tohoku University)
      “Structural evolution during vitrification of metallic liquids”
    • 10:00-10:30 Akihiko Hirata (AIMR, Tohoku University)
      “Atomic-scale disproportionation in amorphous silicon monoxide”

    • 10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

    • Session Chair: Lindsay Greer
    • 10:50-11:20 Perter Harrowell (University of Sydney)
      “Rigidity and its Loss in Glasses and Liquids”
    • 11:20-11:50 Mo Li (Georgia Institute of Technology)
      “Cluster formation in liquids: A physical process or geometric pattern formation?”

    • 11:50-13:00 Lunch

    • Session Chair: Mo Li
    • 13:00-13:30 Takeshi Egami (University of Tennessee)
      “Atomistic origin of viscosity of liquids and colloids”
    • 13:30-14:00 Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins University)
      “Flow in Glasses at High Rates and the Nature of the Glass Transition”
    • 14:00-14:30 Ken Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, AIMR)
      “Dynamical heterogeneities and their time evolution on the surface of an amorphous polymer”
    • 14:30-14:50 Fan Zhu (AIMR, Tohoku University)
      “Correlation between spatial heterogeneity and sub-Tg relaxation of metallic glasses”

    • 14:50-15:10 Coffee Break

    • Session Chair: Akihiko Hirata
    • 15:10-15:40 Xijie Wang (Stanford University)
      “Ultrafast electron scattering and X-ray XFEL: connecting structure dynamics with material functionality”
    • 15:40-16:10 Shinji Kohara (National Institute for Materials Science)
      “Temperature-induced relaxation towards perfect glass in permanently densified SiO2 glass”
    • 16:10-16:40 Dmitri Louzguine (AIMR, Tohoku University)
      “Surface structure and properties of bulk metallic glasses”
    • 16:40-17:00 Mingwei Chen (AIMR, Tohoku University)
      “Experimental characterization of supercooled liquid/crystal interfaces”

  • 17:00-17:10 Closing, Takeshi Egami

Venue

1st floor seminar room in WPI-AIMR main building.
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Contact

Akihiko Hirata
Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

E-MAIL : hirata@wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp