Seminars & Symposium

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

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