2009 CCMS Summer Lecture Series: Prof. Shankar Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Lecture times are 4:00pm - 5:30pm on days indicatedThe Lectures:
July 6
LECTURE I : Introduction. Freezing transition. Supercooled Liquids. Glass transition. An order parameter theory for freezing. Density functional approach.
July 7
LECTURE II : Nucleation of solids from the melt. Classical Nucleation theory and free energy barrier to critical nucleus formation. A schematic model for metastable state dynamics. Computer simulation methods for studying the nucleation process.
July 8
LECTURE III : Study of Liquid state dynamics. Fluctuating hydrodynamics and slow modes. Slow dynamics in Supercooled Liquids. Features of Glassy dynamics. Role of cooperative dynamics. Long time tails.
July 9
LECTURE IV : Fluctuating Nonlinear Hydrodynamics and formulation of the mode coupling theory (MCT). The ergodic-nonergodic transition of MCT.
July 13
LECTURE V : The two step relaxation process of MCT. Evidence from experiments and simulations. Absence of the sharp transition.
July 14
LECTURE VI : Non-equilibrium dynamics and violation of Fluctuation-dissipation theoream in glassy dynamics. Modified Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts relaxation and aging behavior. Effective temperatures in non-equilibrium systems.
July 15
LECTURE VII : Dynamic heterogeneities and four point correlation functions. Non gaussian parameters. Cooperative dynamics and string like motion in simulated systems. Growing length scales in glassy systems.
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