Glasses and Grains Poincaré Seminar 2009 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Duplantier, Bertrand (Editor), Halsey, Thomas C. (Editor), Rivasseau, Vincent (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel, 2011.
• Series: Progress in Mathematical Physics ; 61
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Mathematics, general.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

This tenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series describes recent developments at one of the most challenging frontiers in statistical physics - the deeply related fields of glassy dynamics, especially near the glass transition, and of the statics and dynamics of granular systems. These fields are m...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Jorge Kurchan; Glasses
• David A. Weitz; Colloidal Glasses
• Giulio Biroli; Glass and Jamming Transitions
• Yo¨el Forterre and Olivier Pouliquen; Granular Flows
• Thomas C. Halsey; Theoretical Considerations for Granular Flow
• Olivier Dauchot; Grains, Glasses and Jamming.