Schedule
Simons Collaboration: Cracking the glass problem
The University of Chicago
June 7 – 9, 2016
Tuesday, June 7
Morning
9:00 – 10:00
BREAKFAST/Introductions
KPTC 206
Tutorials (open to the public)
KPTC 106
10:00 – 12:00
Jorge Kurchan
The meanfield theory of liquids and glasses
12:00 – 1:30
LUNCH
KPTC 206
Afternoon
KPTC 106
1:30 – 3:30
Dave Reichman
Real-Space Behavior of Supercooled Liquids, Glasses and Jamming systems
3:30 – 4:00
BREAK
KPTC 206
4:00 – 6:00
PI management meeting
KPTC 206
Postdocs activities
KPTC 120
DINNER
Wednesday, June 8
Morning
KPTC 120
9:00
Postdoc talks (15 minutes + 15 minutes discussion)
Seoane
Detection of the Gardner transition in simulations
Urbani
Breakdown of elasticity in amorphous solids
10:00
BREAK
KPTC 206
10:30
Sussman
The structure-dynamics connection in glassy thin films
Morse
A pre-jamming local rigidity transition
Ozawa
Glass & jamming physics using advanced thermalization techniques
1:00
LUNCH
KPTC 120; GCIS E123
Afternoon
KPTC 120; KPTC 206
2:00
PI: management meeting
Postdoc activities; Scientific meetings (all)
3:30
BREAK
KPTC 206
4:00
Discussions – forming collaborations
6:30
DINNER
Thursday, June 9
Morning
KPTC 120
9:00
Postdoc talks (15 minutes + 15 minutes discussion)
Altieri
Effective potential in the perceptron and soft spheres
DeGiuli
Flow near jammings
10:00
BREAK
KPTC 206
10:30
Yaida
A nontrivial fixed point for replica-symmetry breaking
Spiegler
Distribution of avalanches in perturbed disordered systems
Hexner
Probing disordered response in jammed systems by bond removal
1:00
LUNCH
KPTC 206
Afternoon
KPTC 120; GCIS E223??
2:00
Scientific meetings (PI & postdocs all together)
3:30
BREAK
KPTC 206
4:00
Discussions – forming collaborations
6:00
Adjourn