A CECAM Workshop on Metastability and Landscapes in Complex (Materials) Systems, Lyons, France, May 22 - 24, 2003

欧洲原子与分子计算中心（CECAM）研讨会将于2003年5月22日至24日在法国里昂的高等师范学院（www.cecam.fr）举行。研讨会的目的是汇集来自亚稳态发生的不同领域（生物学，玻璃物理学，吸附现象等）的专家，以澄清观察到的行为的差异/相似之处，并最终发展/扩展数值方法来治疗亚稳态。具体要回答的问题包括：1。当热猝灭和能量格局的转变带来亚稳态时，亚稳态有何不同（如果有的话）？主要用于处理经历热猝灭的系统的方法能否应用于经历能源格局转变的系统？像玻璃、生物分子和受限流体这样不同的系统表现出亚稳态的共同特征是什么？本次研讨会的会议记录将由主要研究人员提供。

Van Tassel, Paul RYale University The European Center for Atomic and Molecular Calculation (CECAM) workshop will be held May 22-24, 2003 at the Ecole Normale Superior in Lyons, France (www.cecam.fr). The objective of the workshop is to bring together specialists from different fields in which metastability occurs (biology, glass physics, adsorption phenomena, etc.) in order to clarify difference/similarities in the observed behavior and ultimately develop/extend numerical methods to treat metastability. Specifically questions to be answered included the following:1. How does metastability differ (if at all) when brought about by the thermal quench versus a shift in the energy landscape?2. Can methods developed primarily to treat systems undergoing a thermal quench be applied to systems undergoing a shift in energy landscape?3. What common features of metastability are exhibited by systems as diverse as glasses, biological molecules, and confined fluids?Proceedings of this workshop will be made available by the principal investigators.