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Supported by experiments, a picture of the state of the art in numerical simulations and theories is given on the physics of glasses and supercooled liquids. Specialists in the fields of structural and dynamical aspects of glasses lecture on the different approaches of mode coupling theories, two-level systems, geometrical frustration, etc.
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These proceedings from a program held in May 1999 collects 25 contributions addressing the main aspects of the physics of liquids, amorphous solids, and glasses. Contributions address experimental background issues such as neutron and X-ray scattering from glasses and experiments in relaxations and vibrations in glasses; mode coupling theory issues such as traps and mode-coupling theory in aging in glasses systems and numerical tests; geometrical approaches including phenomenological analysis of supercooled liquids and tunneling modes in glass; and numerical simulations such as molecular dynamics in amorphous solids and liquids and molecular dynamics studies. The final eleven chapters consist of contributed talks on a range of issues. Marred by the lack of a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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