Physics Colloquium, "Approaching and Leaving Metastability" by Professor Harvey Gould, Physics Department, Clark University

Science / Technology - Colloquium

Monday, October 1, 2007
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Olin Hall
107

I will discuss the approach to metastable equilibrium in the Ising model using a cluster representation and find that the system is still changing at the microscopic level even after the mean values of various global quantities have ceased to change. I then will discuss the nature of nucleation in both Ising models and supercooled Lennard-Jones liquids.

Cost: FREE

Suggested Audiences: College

E-mail: sak@wpi.edu
Phone: 508-831-5090

Last Modified: September 27, 2007 at 1:40 PM

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