Glass and jams - one and the same?
Glass and jams - one and the same?
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 7th January 2002
- Speaker: Colin Holmes (University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Both glasses and jams are familiar in everyday life, yet the physics of these phenomena is sufficiently complicated that neither is fully understood. One question of interest is whether a jamming transition (in which some driving force becomes 'too large' and actually inhibits the flow which it is trying to induce) and a glass transition are actually two aspects of the same thing. With current work, we hope to describe jamming within the framework of a well established model of the glass transition. In the talk, I will discuss jams, glasses and the relationship between them.
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