US-India Workshop: Viscous Liquids and the Glass Transition, Bangalore, India

本奖项为参加2002年1月在印度班加罗尔举行的“美国-印度研讨会：粘性液体和玻璃化转变”的20名美国与会者提供旅费支持。亚利桑那州立大学的美国PI奥斯汀·安吉尔和印度科学研究所的斯里坎斯·萨斯特里和钱丹·达斯古普塔是一个关于从流动液体到玻璃固体转变的研讨会的组织者，这是一个当前备受争议的主题，也是凝聚态物理学中一个重要的未解决问题。他们将召集颗粒物质、泡沫、自旋玻璃和涡旋玻璃等相关领域的国际领先物理学家和专家，讨论问题边界并探索一系列定义明确的主题。美国参与者是根据他们对这一研究领域的宝贵贡献以及他们对未来进展的重要性来选择的。研讨会的范围是探索六个主题，这些主题在结构玻璃的玻璃过渡方面产生了当前的兴趣浪潮。范围：美国PI是该领域世界领先的科学家之一。在这一领域的研究中，一些最积极贡献的科学家是印度国民。研讨会将利用在印度同时参加统计物理和凝聚态物理会议的理论家的存在。研讨会举办地班加罗尔的印度科学研究所在物理和材料研究方面有着悠久的成就历史，其中包括印度诺贝尔奖获得者C.V.拉曼和CNR Rao。印度主办方将承担美国参与者在当地的费用；国际科学与工程办公室和材料研究司共同支持这项活动。

0138172AngellDescription: This award provides travel support for 20 American participants at the US-India Workshop: Viscous Liquids and the Glass Transition, Bangalore, India, January 2002. US PI Austen Angell, Arizona State University and Srikanth Sastry and Chandan Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Science, are organizers for a workshop on transition from mobile liquid to glassy solid, a subject of much current debate and an important unsolved problem of condensed matter physics. They will convene leading international physicists and experts in the related areas of granular matter, foams, spin glasses and vortex glasses to discuss problem boundaries and explore a series of well-defined themes. US participants were selected on the basis of their valuable contributions to this research area and for their importance to future progress. The scope of the workshop is exploration of six themes that have generated the current wave of interest on glass transition in structural glasses. Scope: The US PI is one of the world's leading scientists in this field. Some of the most active contributing scientists to research in this field are Indian nationals. The workshop will take advantage of the presence in India of theorists attending concurrent statistical physics and condensed matter physics conferences. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the workshop venue, has a long history of achievement in physics and materials research, including those of Indian Nobel Laureate C.V. Raman and CNR Rao. Indian hosts will meet local costs for US participants; the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Materials Research jointly support this activity.