Schedule Mar 25, 2009
Glassy Dynamics and Unusual Thermodynamics on Curved Surfaces
Zohar Nussinov, Wash Univ.-St. Louis

When supercooled, various liquids do not have enough time to "compute" their true global minima and may veer towards locally preferred structures that, due to geometrical constraints, cannot tile (flat) space.  We will show how this may lead to glassy dynamics and very unusual thermodynamics. We will also discuss the inverted problem and illustrate how by removing constraint, we may better solve hard NP-complete problems.

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