 Organisers: Alessandro Manacorda and Francesco Zamponi Speakers:
During the last 30 years, Mode-Coupling Theory (MCT) has emerged as the only microscopic theory of the dynamics of dense liquids with experimental relevance. Its success lies largely on its ability to predict a number of observables over a broad range of systems. Applying MCT to two- and three-dimensional liquids, both in and out of equilibrium, notably provides the full wave-vector dependence of dynamical correlators with quantitative accuracy. As any approximate theory, however, MCT has a drawback: the validity of the approximations on which it is based has to be checked on a case-to-case basis. As an example, a correct description of the dynamics close to jamming has so far not been achieved within MCT. At the same time, a complementary description has been obtained from the exact solution to the dynamics of liquids in infinite dimensions. Being an exact solution, this framework is, by definition, guaranteed to be applicable in all possible regimes, and it is also physically consistent with thermodynamic approaches in the long time limit. However, this formalism is completely inaccurate in two and three dimensions, and neglects the wave-vector dependence of correlators, hence it can only provide qualitative insights into the behavior of physically relevant systems. This focused and informal workshop aims to find a theoretically sound way of unifying the two descriptions into a single framework that would have the advantages of both. Workshop program (longer talks are 1h plus 30min discussion, shorter talks are 30min plus 10min discussion) Tuesday 11 -- Room L382, 3rd floor, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris 11:00 Matthias Fuchs 12:30 lunch break 14:00 Grzegorz Szamel 15:30 coffee break 16:00 Simone Ciarella 16:50 Elisabeth Agoritsas 17:40 end Wednesday 12 -- Room E244 aka Conf IV, 2nd floor, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris 9:00 Thomas Voigtmann 10:30 coffee break 11:00 Frédéric Van Wijland 12:30 lunch break 14:00 Patrick Charbonneau 14:30 Thibaud Maimbourg 15:20 coffee break 15:50 Félix Roy 16:40 end Practical information: There are no registration fees, however registration is mandatory before Nov. 15, for organisational reasons. In order to register, please write an email entitled "Workshop Dynamics" to Alessandro Manacorda (name.surname_at_lpt.ens.fr), indicating your name and affiliation. This workshop has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 723955 - GlassUniversality).  |