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SLOW RELAXATIONS AND NONEQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS IN CONDENSED MATTER

RELAXATIONS LENTES ET DYNAMIQUES HORS D'EQUILIBRE EN PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIERE CONDENSEE

LES HOUCHES 2002 SUMMER SCHOOL
SESSION LXXVII , July 1 - 26, 2002

NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE, EUROSUMMERSCHOOL

Jean-Louis BARRAT (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)
Mikhail FEIGELMAN (Landau Institute, Moscow, Russia )
Jorge KURCHAN (ESPCI, Paris)

Description of the School:

Many-particle systems having a collective evolution that is much slower than the microscopic motion are a common feature in condensed matter. Systems with such slow relaxations are very often out of equilibrium, since a laboratory experiment generally takes place on time scales shorter than their relaxation time. This makes them very challenging objects of study, as usual statistical mechanics tools are insufficient.

In fact, many of the solids that surround us - and the systems we encounter in practical and industrial applications - belong to this category. One may cite, for example:

-Structural glasses, including plastics and colloids, and spin glasses.

-Powders and granular matter undergoing compaction or slow flow.

-Type II superconductors carrying a current.

-Defects in crystals. Ripening of surfaces. Domain growth. Wetting.

-Foams, emulsions and colloids.

The focus of the school will be on the unifying concepts that can lead to a common view of this wide class of systems, based on ideas developed during the late eighties and nineties in the fields of glasses and spin glasses, of complex fluids, and for the study of randomly pinned systems.

Organizers and Lecturers Address List:

ORGANIZERS

BARRAT Jean-Louis, Dept. Physique des Matériaux, Université de Lyon 1, 43 bd du 11 novembre, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
jean-louis.barrat@dpm.univ-lyon1.fr

FEIGEL’MAN Mikhail, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kosygina 2, 117334 Moscow, Russia
feigel@cpd.landau.ac.ru

KURCHAN Jorge, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris, France
jorge@pmmh.espci.fr

DALIBARD Jean, Lab. Kastler Brossel, ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
jean.dalibard@lkb.ens.fr

LECTURERS

AJDARI Armand, Physico-Chimie Théorique, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
armand@turner.pct.espci.fr

BOUCHAUD Jean-Philippe, CEA Saclay, L’orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
bouchau@drecam.saclay.cea.fr

CABANE Bernard, Laboratoire PMMH, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
bcabane@pmmh.espci.fr

CATES Michael, Dept. Of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh, JCMB Kings Buildings, Mayfield road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Scotland
m.cates@ed.ac.uk

CILIBERTO Sergio, Lab. de Physique, ENS, 46 allée d’Italie, 69007 Lyon, France
sergio.ciliberto@ens-lyon.fr

CUGLIANDOLO Letitia, LPTHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
leticia@lpt.ens.fr

FINKELSTEIN Alexei, Russian Aca Sci, Institute of Protein Research, Pushchino 142290, Moscow Region, Russia
afinkel@vega.protres.ru

FISHER Daniel, Physics Department, Harvard Univ., 17 Oxford Str., Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
fisher@physics.harvard.edu

KOB Walter, Lab. des Verres, cc69, Univ. Montpellier II, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
kob@ldv.univ-montp2.fr

OCIO Miguel, D.S.M., Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France.

OVADYAHU Zvi, Racah Inst. of Physics, The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem 91904, Israel
zvi@vms.huji.ac.il

PARISI Giorgio, Dipartimento di Fisica , Universita’ di Roma « La Sapienza », P.le A. Moro 2, Roma 00185 Italy
giorgio.parisi@roma1.infn.it

RACZ Zoltan, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Eötvös Univ., Pazamany Peter setenay 1/a, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
racz@poe.elte.hu

WALES David, Univ. Chemical Laboratories, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
dw34@cam.ac.uk

STUDENTS


ARADIAN Achod, Physique de la Matière Condensée, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05 France
achod.aradian@college-de-France.fr

BAGGIO Chiara, Lorenz Instituut,(Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden), P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
chiara@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl

BERTHIER Ludovic, Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3NP, United Kingdom
berthier@thphys .ox.ac.uk

BERTIN Eric, DSM/DRECAM/SPEC, Orme des Merisiers, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur- Yvette Cedex, France
bertin@drecam.saclay.cea.fr

BIROLI Giulio, SPHT CEA/Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
biroli@spht.saclay.cea.fr

BLAVATS’KA Viktoria, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, 1 Svientsitskii Str.,Lviv, 79011 Ukraine
viktoria@ph.icmp.lviv.ua

BOGNER Simon, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Univ. zu Köln, Zülpicherstr. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
sb@thp.uni-koeln.de

BOND Heidi, Chandler Group, Chemistry Dept., Univ. of California, Berkeley CA 94720 USA
hbond@uclink.berkeley.edu

CHTCHELKATCHEV Nikolai, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kosygina str. 2, 117940, Moscow, Russia
nms@itp.ac.ru

CILIBERTI Stefano, Physics Dept., University of Rome « La Sapienza », P.Le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
ciliberti@roma1.infn.it

CLINCY Miriam, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom
mc@ph.ed.ac.uk

DE COL Alvise, Theoretische Physik, ETH- Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
alvis@phys.ethz.ch

DEMYANCHYUK Iryna, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National Univ., Glushkova 6, 312 room, Kyiv 03022, Ukraine
id@i.com.ua

DOMINGUEZ Daniel, Centro Atomico Bariloche, av. Bustillo 9500, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
domingd@cab.cnea.gov.ar

DUDKA Maxym, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, 1 Svientsitskii str., Lviv, UA-79011, Ukraine
maxdudka@icmp.lviv.ua

GIARDINA Cristian, Dipartimento di Matematica, Piazza di Porta S.Donato, 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy
giardina@dm.unibo.it

GRIBOVA Nadejda, Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Science, 142092 Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia
nadezhda_g@mail.ru

GRIGERA Tomas, Gruppo VIM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma « La Sapienza » P.le Aldo Moro, 2, 00185 Roma, Italy

GRIGORYAN Arsen, Dept. of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics,,Yerevan State Univ., 1 Al. Manoogian St., 375025, Yerevan, Armenia

HATCHETT Jonathan, King's College, Univ. of London, The Strand, London WC 2R 2LS, United Kingdom

HOLMES Colin, Room 4306, JCMB, King's Building, Mayfield Road,Edinburgh, EH8 3JZ, UK

IMAMBEKOV Adilet, L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kosygina 2, 117334 Moscow, Russia

JOSEPH Toby, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore 560012, India

KATZAV Eytan, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv Univ., Ramat-Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

KIM Kang, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Imformatics, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

KOLAR Michal, Fyzikalni Ustav AV CR, Na Slovance 2, CZ-182 21 Praha, Czech Republic

KOLTON Alejandro, Centro Atomico Bariloche, Bustillo 9500, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina

KOOPMANN Jérôme, Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH 8093 Zürich, Suisse

KRZAKALA Florent, LPTMS, Bât. 100, Université Paris-Sud, 91406 Orsay, France

LEBEDEV Andrei, L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Kosygina 2, Moscow, 117334, Russia

LEFEVRE Alexandre, Lab. de Physique Quantique, 118 rte de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France

MATSUO Miki, Sasa Lab., Graduate School of Arts and Science, Univ. of Tokyo, Komaba, 3-8-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan

MEROLLE Mauro, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 USA

MUKHOPADHYAY Swagatam, Loomis Lab. of Physics, 1110 West Green Str., URBANA Illinois, 61801-3080 USA

ORLYANCHIK Vladimir, The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, 91904 Israel

PICARD Guillemette, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France

PISOV Stoyan, Univ. of Sofia, Dept. of Atomic Physics, Str. James Bourchier Bld, Sofia 1126, Bulgaria

ROTTLER Joerg, Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins Univ., 3400 N. Charles Str., Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

RYAZANOV Valery, Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow distr. 142432, Russia

SAVITSKAYA Natalia, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Inst. RAS, 188300, Gatchina, Russia

SCHEHR Gregory, LPT, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France

SEMERJIAN Guilhem, LPT, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 750005 Paris, France

SNOEIJER Jacco, Inst. Lorentz, LION, Univ. Leiden, P.O.Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

SYCKMANOV Dmitry, Ioffe Physico-Technical Inst., Polytechnicheskaya ul. 29, 195251, St Petersburg, Russia

TCHESSKAYA Tatyana, Information Technology Dept., Odessa State Ecological University, Lovovskaya 15, 65016 Odessa, Ukraine

VANDEMBROUCQ Damien,Unité Mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain, 39 Quai Lucien Lefranc, 93303 Aubervilliers, France

VASIN Mikhail, P.T.I. Ur.B. R.A.S., 426001 Kirova Str.,132 Izhevsk, Russia

VIASNOFF Virgile, LPM ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France

VOIGTMANN Thomas, Theoretische Physik, T37, James-Franck-Str.,85748 Garching, Germany

WHITE Olivia, Harvard Univ., Dept. of Physics, Jefferson Laboratories, 17 Oxford Str., Cambridge, MA 02140 USA

WHITELAM Stephen, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Oxford Univ., Keble road, Oxford OX1 3NP, England

ZACCARELLI Emanuela, G20 Univ. La Sapienza, Ple A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy

ZAMPONI Francesco, Dipt. Di Fisica, G20, Univ. La Sapienza, Ple Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

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