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- Provides up-to-date information about a physical topic of great interest
- Covers theoretical as well as experimental aspects
- Addresses both the professional and graduate levels
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 61)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This tenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series describes recent developments at one of the most challenging frontiers in statistical physics - the deeply related fields of glassy dynamics, especially near the glass transition, and of the statics and dynamics of granular systems. These fields are marked by a vigorous interchange between experiment, theory, and numerical studies, all of which are well represented by the leading experts who have contributed articles to this volume. These articles are also highly pedagogical, as befits their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience. Highlights include a Galilean dialogue on the mean field and competing theories of the glass transition, a wide-ranging survey of colloidal glasses, and experimental as well as theoretical treatments of the relatively new field of dense granular flows. This book should be of broad general interest to both physicists and mathematicians.
Editors and Affiliations
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, CEA Saclay, Service de Physique Théorique, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Bertrand Duplantier
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ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, USA
Thomas C. Halsey
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Vincent Rivasseau
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Glasses and Grains
Book Subtitle: Poincaré Seminar 2009
Editors: Bertrand Duplantier, Thomas C. Halsey, Vincent Rivasseau
Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0084-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0083-9Published: 06 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0329-8Published: 17 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-0084-6Published: 29 April 2011
Series ISSN: 1544-9998
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 162
Topics: Mathematics, general, Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems