Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Simons Foundation Collaboration to Study the Physics of Glass
Sometimes in science, the most mundane phenomena embody the deepest mysteries. For example, glass is made by cooling a liquid rapidly until it solidifies. But when and how does that change occur? When does liquid become solid? Is there a definite transition at all?
The answers to those questions would have implications far beyond understanding the physics of glass, in realms as far flung as biology, computer science and astrophysics.
Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, hopes to find them...