VISCOUS LIQUIDS AND THE GLASS TRANSITION (II)

Søminestationen (Holbæk, Denmark) June 16-18, 2000.

Program

FRIDAY JUNE 16:

12.00-12.50:	Lunch
12.50-13.00:	Opening
13.00-13.20:	Lars Börjesson: The Boson peak: News from inelastic x-ray scattering experiments.
13.40-14.00:	Kia Ngai: Why do properties of the fast relaxation correlate with the Kohlrausch exponent of the slow relaxation?
14.20-14.40:	Rikard Bergman: Is the dielectric excess wing a beta-relaxation?
15.00-16.00:	Break
16.00-16.20:	Ranko Richert: Dynamic heterogeneity above and below the glass transition.
16.40-17.00:	Gregor Diezemann: What can we learn about heterogeneous relaxation via nonresonant hole-burning?
17.20-17.40:	Ernst Rössler: What is the physical origin of the slow beta process?
18.00-	Dinner
20.00-20.20:	Tage Christensen: Thermoviscoelasticity - problem or solution?
20.40-21.00:	Giulio Monaco: What is the nature of the "fast relaxations" in real glass-formers?
SATURDAY JUNE 17
8.00-	Breakfast
9.00-9.20:	Gilles Tarjus: What is the origin of the super-Arrhenius behavior of fragile liquids?
9.40-10.00:	Ralph Chamberlin: What is the source of the non-Arrhenius primary response in condensed matter?
10.20-10.40:	Niels Boye Olsen: Is there a glassy contribution to the activation energy of the main relaxation?
11.00-11.20:	Austen Angell: What is the relation between fragility and density of states?
12.00-	Lunch
14.00-14.20:	Paul Madden: Structure and dynamics - is there a connection?
14.40-15.00:	Thomas Schrøder: The potential energy landscape: Where does it lead us?
15.20-15.40:	Jeppe Dyre: Why is the alpha peak so narrow?
16.00-17.00:	Break
17.00-17.20:	Roland Böhmer: NMR of a plastic crystal.
17.40-18.00:	Daniel Andersson: Quasi-elastic neutron scattering of glass-forming polymers.
19.00-	Dinner
SUNDAY JUNE 18
8.30-	Breakfast
9.40-10.00:	Christer Svanberg: What can we learn about cooperativity from polymer gels?
10.20-12.00:	Final discussion (organizers: Austen Angell, Roland Böhmer, Paul Madden).
12.00-	Lunch