edited by M Giordano (Univ. Pisa) , D Leporini (Univ. Pisa) , & M P Tosi (Scuola Normale Superiou di Pisa)

This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Workshop on “Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials”, held in Pisa in the early fall of 1995 as a joint initiative of the University of Pisa and of the Scuola Normale Superiore. The goal was to bring together liquid state physicists, chemists and engineers, to review current developments and comparatively discuss experimental facts and theoretical predictions in this vast scientific area. The core of the Workshop was a set of general lectures followed by more specific presentations on current issues in the main areas of the field. This structure has been maintained in this volume, in which a set of five overviews is followed by topically grouped contributions in the five areas of ionic glasses and glassy materials, the glass transition, viscous flow and microscopic relaxation, complex fluids, and polymers. The volume also preserves a record of the many short contributions given to the Workshop through posters, which are grouped in it under the subjects of inorganic glasses, organic glasses and complex fluids, polymers, and theoretical aspects.

• Short Time and Long Time Dynamics in Interacting Systems (K L Ngai et al.)
• A Simple Model for Glass Forming Liquids (T A Vilgis)
• Molecular Structure in Amorphous Polymers (P Corradini)
• Molecular Cooperativity in Liquids Near the Glass Transition (J Jäckle)
• Polyamorphism and First Order Transitions between Strong and Fragile in Liquid States (C A Angell et al.)
• Ion Dynamics and Structural Relaxation in Glassy Materials (M D Ingram & K Funke)
• Low-Energy Modes in Glasses: A Comparison with the Soft-Potential Model (A Fontana & A Leonardi)
• Low Energy Excitations in Rare-Earth Phosphate Glasses (G Carini)
• Depolarized Light Scattering Studies of Glass-Forming Liquids: Comparison with the Mode Coupling Theory (H Z Cummins et al.)
• Characteristic Behaviour of the Dynamic Structure Factor Near the Glass Transition (F Mezei et al.)
• Frustrated Percolation Model: Applications to the Glass Transition (A Coniglio)
• Off Equilibrium Generalization of Mode Coupling Theory (S Franz & G Parisi)
• Fractional Debye-Stokes-Einstein Law in Supercooled o-Terphenyl (L Andreozzi et al.)
• The Fast Dynamics of Glassforming Polymers — Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study (R Zorn & D Richter)
• Static and Dynamic Light Scattering of Supercooled Fluids (W Steffen et al.)
• Dynamics of Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions (P N Pusey et al.)
• Slow Dynamics of Water in Supercooled States and Near Hydrophilic Surfaces (S H Chen et al.)
• Rheology of Polymeric Liquids (G Marrucci & G Ianniruberto)
• The Scaling of Relaxational Processes Near the Transition Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy (A Schönhals)
• and other papers