Dear all, Our upcoming AM seminar is held next Wednesday 13 September at 1pm in F07 Carslaw Lecture Theatre 373. Our speaker is Peter Harrowell (University of Sydney). Talk details follow below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Introduction to the Problem of Glass Abstract: Amorphous solids â glasses, plastics, ceramics and âglassyâ metal alloys â make up an important part of the material world but they remain poorly understood at the microscopic level. The difficulties arise from the non-uniqueness of the solid state. This talk will address the issues of the complexity of the energy landscape associated with disordered configurations, the diversity of geometric structures, the localized response to strain (non-affine displacements) and thermal fluctuations (dynamic heterogeneities). Â Related phenomenon such as jamming will also be discussed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An ongoing list of AM seminars is posted here: https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SemConf/Applied.html See you there, Jae Min