Programme
The European Forum on new glass applications (EFONGA) is pleased to announce the second international workshop on glass and entropy (Relaxation phenomena in glasses). This workshop is to be held at Aberystwyth University on the 22nd to 24th of April 2009.

1.45 pm Welcome

Noel Lloyd

Vice Chancellor Aberystwyth University

Session 1

2.00 pm Opening address	Austen Angell	The low temperature end of the liquid state: experimental evidence for a new paradigm
2.50 pm Invited Speaker	Dmitry Matyushov	Modeling the configuratonal entropy of supercooled liquids and resolution of the Kauzmann paradox
3.20 pm	Ulrich Fotheringham	TBA
3.50pm		Tea

Session 2

4.15 pm Invited Speaker	Akiri Takada	Nonergodicity on glass - Interpretations from statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
5.15 pm	Hervé Guillou	The non-unity of the Prigogine-Defay ratio explained as the departure of the fictive temperature from the glass transition temperature
5.45 pm	Peter Poole	Interplay of crystal nucleation and glass formation: A liquid supercooling limit in high density silica due to the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation
6.15 pm		Reception

Session 3

9.00 am Invited Speaker	Ivan Gutzow	Rate of External Parameter Change at Vitrification and the Entropy of Glass
9.30 am	Tanguy Rouxel	Temperature dependence of elastic moduli and structural changes in glasses
10.00 am	Reinhart	Conradt Relation between chemical structure and configurational entropy in silicate glasses
10.30 am		TBA
11.00 am		Tea

Session 4

11.30 am Invited Speaker	Prabhat Gupta	Entropy, Meta-basins, and Glass Transition
12.00 pm	Lothar Wondraczek	Relaxation of network glasses with negative viscosity-pressure dependence
12.30 pm	Edwin Flikkema	Graph-based global optimization of fully-coordinated cluster geometries
1.00 pm		Lunch

Session 5

2.00 pm Invited Speaker	John Mauro	Topological Modeling of Glass-Forming Systems using Temperature-Dependent Constraints
2.30 pm	Phil Salmon	Ordering in Network Liquids and Glasses
3.00 pm	Chris Benmore	Dense silicate networks'
3.30 pm	Christine Martinet	Disorder and elastic anomalous behavior of SiO2 and GeO2 glasses under high pressure : a microscopic approach by in-situ Raman spectroscopy
4.00 pm		Tea

Session 6

4.30 pm Invited Speaker	Theo Nieuwenhuizen	Quantum thermodynamics: thermodynamics at the nanoscale
5.00 pm		TBA
5.30 pm Invited Speaker	Juan Garrahan	What is the real transition behind the glass transition?
7.00 pm		Conference Dinner

Session 7

9.00 am Key Note	Neville Greaves	Liquid-liquid transitions, crystallisation and long range fluctuations in supercooled yttrium oxide-aluminium oxide melts.
9.30 am	Harald Behrens	Experimental determination of the pressure dependence of viscosity of silicate melts
10.00 am	Marie Foret	Anomalous hardening of vitreous silica: what we learn from Brillouin scattering experiments under temperature and pressure
10.30 am	Bernard Champagnon	Excess of Vibrational Density of States in high temperature and high pressure densified glasses
11.00 am		Coffee

Session 8

11.30 am Key Note	Sabyasachi Sen	Fragility, Rigidity and Entropy in Ge-Se Glasses and supercooled Liquids
12.00 pm	Malcom Guthrie	Amorphous forms of water
12.30 pm	Gavin Mountjoy	The fundamental distribution of dopants in glasses
1.00 pm		Lunch

Session 9 - Lothar Wondraczek Chair

2.30 pm	Discussion session	Experimental challenges
4.00 pm		Closing remarks

Having identified some topics of major interest and open questions at the first workshop, held in Trencin, Slovakia last summer, this 2nd International Workshop on Glass & Entropy will develop and expand the research remit in a series of six, thematic sessions and workshops at Aberystwyth. In addition to a focusing on the zero point entropy of glasses, the Aberystwyth workshop will include calorimetry, computer simulations, liquid and glass structures at the extremes of pressure and temperature and the controversial phenomenon of polyamorphism reported in water and in a range of other diverse systems. The Workshop will be Gordon Conference in style encouraging discussion as much as dissemination.

The workshop will be held on the campus of Aberystwyth University, located in the coastal town of Aberystwyth on the shores of Cardigan Bay. Sessions will be held in the Institute of Mathematics and Physics in the Physical Sciences Building.

Glass and Entropy II will involve up to 60 participants, including invited and contributed talks. There is a registration fee of 100 pounds to cover conference space, lunch, coffee and tea for three days to be paid before 16th February 2009. A series of reasonably priced hotels are located within walking distance of the Aberystwyth Campus. In addition economy bed and breakfast is available within the university halls of residence.

The workshop is organised by the Technical Committee 8: "Relaxation phenomena in glasses" of the International Commission on Glass and EFONGA - European Forum on New Glass Applications (FP6, project No. CA 013983).

The seafront at sunset