{"485611":{"#nid":"485611","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Glassy slowdown and amorphous order","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003ESchool of Physics Colloquium: Prof. Sho Yaida, Duke University\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpon approaching the glass transition a liquid gets extremely sluggish without obvious structural changes. Despite decades of work, the physical origin of this glassy slowdown remains controversial. A common explanation relies on the increasing roughness of the underlying free-energy landscape, but the theoretical and experimental underpinnings of this scenario are still lacking. In this talk, I will survey recent advances that let us unambiguously identify and track the growing amorphous order, a manifestation of the rarefaction of metastable states in the rugged landscape. I will further explore the crucial role this order plays in driving the glassy slowdown.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Glassy slowdown and amorphous order"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2016-01-13 13:40:59","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:10","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-02-01T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-02-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-02-01T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-02-01 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-02-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-02-01 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"168195","name":"amorphous order"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amorain@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamorain@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}