International Workshop on Dynamics in Viscous Liquids

Rome, March 30 - April 2, 2011

Scientific Programme

Wednesday, March 30

08:45

E. Zaccarelli and Th. Voigtmann
Welcome note

Session 1, Chair: Hartmut Löwen

09:00

W. Kob, Université Montpellier 2
Static and Dynamic Length Scales in Glass-Forming Liquids

09:20

C. Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Science
Growing length scales and their relation to growing time scales in glass-forming liquids

09:40

M. Mosayebi, ETH Zürich
A static correlation length diverging at the glass transition

10:00

C. Cammarota, CEA Saclay, France
A phase-separation perspective on dynamic heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids

10:20

Coffee break

Session 2, Chair: Wolfgang Götze

10:50

G. Szamel, Colorado State University
Dynamic glass transition: mode-coupling theory, replica approach and emergence of rigidity

11:10

K. Miyazaki, University of Tsukuba
Is the Mode-Coupling Theory a Mean Field Description of the Glass Transition?

11:30

R. Schilling, Universität Mainz
Mean-field limit of mode-coupling theory

11:50

F. Zamponi, CNRS, France
Quantum glass transition and superfluidity of hard spheres

12:10

Lunch

Session 3, Chair: Kia Ngai

14:00

J. C. Dyre, Roskilde University
Isomorphs in liquid phase diagrams and their consequences for viscous dynamics

14:20

A. Meyer, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany
Relation of properties of mass transport with melt structure in multicomponent viscous metals

14:40

P. Gallo, Università Roma Tre
Slow dynamics and fragile-to-strong transition in confined water and in aqueous solutions.

15:00

J. Wuttke, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Supercooled water dynamics near the resolution limit of neutron backscattering

15:20

Coffee break

Session 4, Chair: Andrea Puglisi

15:50

K. Kroy, Universität Leipzig
Hot Brownian Motion: When Big Beads Beat Bittie Beads

16:10

N. Gnan,
Predicting The Effective Temperature of a Glass

16:30

M. Medina-Noyola, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Incomplete Equilibration of Dense Hard-Sphere Fluids

16:55

D. Villamaina, Università Sapienza
Ratchet effect in an aging glass

Thursday, March 31

Session 5, Chair: Frank Scheffold

09:00

M. Laurati, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Dynamics of Supercooled Colloidal Dispersions under Flow: A Study of Transient Regimes

09:20

J. Horbach, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany
The relaxation of stresses in a glassforming soft-sphere mixture after the switch-off of shear

09:40

J.M. Brader, University of Fribourg
Nonlinear response of dense colloidal suspensions under oscillatory shear

10:00

M. Siebenbürger, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Materialien und Energie Berlin
Startup experiments of concentrated suspensions

10:20

Coffee break

Session 6, Chair: Stefan Egelhaaf

10:50

F. Weysser, Universität Konstanz
A mixture of binary hard discs at the glass transition under shear

11:10

Ch. J. Harrer, Universität Konstanz
Active and Nonlinear Microrheology

11:30

P. Chaudhuri, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Flow of soft jammed materials - linking global flow to local properties

11:50

R. Besseling, The University of Edinburgh
Shear banding and flow-concentration coupling in colloidal glasses

12:10

Lunch

13:45

Poster Session A

15:20

Coffee break

Session 7, Chair: Srikanth Sastry

15:50

A. Heuer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Facilitation effects in supercooled liquids as a key ingredient for the dynamics

16:10

P. Verrocchio, Istituto Sistemi Complessi (ISC-CNR)
Cooperatively rearranging regions and their interfaces close to the glass transition

16:30

M. Tarzia, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
First steps towards a renormalization group approach for glasses

16:50

S. Franz, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud
Field Theory of Fluctuations in Glasses

17:10

Break

Session 8, Chair: Juan Colmenero

17:30

F. Sausset, Université Paris Sud
Characterizing order in amorphous systems

17:50

F. Cardinaux, University of California Los Angeles
Heterogeneous dynamics in dense monodisperse emulsions

Friday, April 01

Session 9, Chair: Thomas Voigtmann

09:00

P. Keim, University of Konstanz
Dynamics and local order in a 2D colloidal glass former

09:20

C. Dalle-Ferrier, ESPCI-CNRS, France
Glass-like dynamics of colloids in modulated potentials

09:40

S. Lang, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Glass transition in confined Geometry: A mode-coupling theory

10:00

D. Coslovich, Université Montpellier II
Slow dynamics in cluster crystals and cluster glasses

10:20

Coffee break

Session 10, Chair: Emanuela Zaccarelli

10:50

S. Buzzaccaro, Politecnico di Milano
Highly nonlinear dynamics in a slowly sedimenting colloidal gel

11:10

B. Ruzicka, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Phase Separation and Equilibrium gels in a colloidal clay

11:30

J. R. Gomez-Solano, CNRS, France
Nonequilibrium fluctuations of a Brownian particle in a quenched gelatin droplet

11:50

C. P. Royall, University of Bristol
Faceted polyhedral colloidal ‘rocks’: low-dimensional slow networks

12:10

Lunch

13:45

Poster Session B

15:20

Coffee break

Session 11, Chair: Giulio Biroli

15:50

L. Berthier, Université Montpellier 2
Six ‘critical’ packing fractions for disordered hard sphere systems

16:10

M. Sperl, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany
Glass Transition in Driven Granular Matter

16:30

H. Jacquin, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
Microscopic many-body theory of the jamming transition

16:50

P. Charbonneau, Duke University
Structural Correlations in Jammed and Glass-Forming Hard Spheres Fluids

17:10

Break

Session 12, Chair: Ulrich Buchenau

17:30

G. Monaco, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Macroscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic regimes for the dynamical properties of disordered systems

17:50

A. Arbe, Centro de Física de Materiales
Nanophase Separation and Anomalous Dynamics in Comb-like Polymers

19:00

Conference Dinner

Saturday, April 02

Session 13, Chair: Francesco Sciortino

09:00

A. S. Keys, University of California
Computer simulation study of structure and dynamics of elementary excitations in model glass forming liquids

09:20

G. Tarjus, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
The role of attractive forces in visquous liquids and its consequence for theories of the glass transition

09:40

H. Tanaka, University of Tokyo
Structural signature of slow dynamics in supercooled liquids: Critical-like glassy structural ordering

10:00

E. Sanz, University of Edinburgh
The Crystallization Mechanism of Hard-Sphere Glasses

10:20

Coffee break

Session 14, Chair: Giorgio Parisi

10:50

C. A. Angell, Arizona State University
An evaluation of the ‘ideal glassformer’ concept, using van der Waals ellipsoids in the Gay-Berne model

11:10

F. Mallamace, Boston University
The dynamic crossover temperature is as important as the glass transition temperature: Evidence from liquid transport coefficients

12:00

Guided Tour to Villa Farnesina