Structure and Dynamics of Glasses

Presentations

• Why Do Polymeric Glass-Forming Liquids Tend to Have a Relatively High Segmental Fragility?

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: 1) Xiaolei Xu, Jack F. Douglas and Wen-Sheng Xu, "Generalized entropy theory investigation
  of the relatively high segmental fragility of many glass-forming polymers" Soft Matter vol. 21, 2664-2685 (2025)
  2) Qi-Lu Yuan, Xiaolei Xu, Jack F. Douglas and Wen-Sheng Xu, "Physical Origin of the Mass Dependence of Glass Transition
  Temperature and Fragility of Polymer Liquids" Macromolecules vol. 58, 9528-9545 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Jack Douglas

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  Authors

  • Jack Douglas

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Qi-Lu Yuan

  • Xiaolei Xu

  • Wensheng Xu

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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• Kinetically arresting surface-directed phase separation in vapor-deposited glasses

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Camille Bishop

    • Wayne State University

  Authors

  • A T M MAHBUB ALAHE

    • Wayne State University

  • Thomas Ferron

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Camille Bishop

    • Wayne State University

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• Depth-profiling molecular composition and orientation in vapor-deposited glasses using polarized resonant soft X-ray reflectivity

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Ferron

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Thomas Ferron

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • A T M MAHBUB ALAHE

    • Wayne State University

  • Camille Bishop

    • Wayne State University

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• Exploring The Relationship Between Stability and Anisotropy in Vapor Deposited Stable Glasses

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Juliana Bonilla

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Juliana Bonilla

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Richard Stephens

  • Charles Carroll

  • Peng Luo

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Rose Cersonsky

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Sarah Wolf

    • SUNY Cortland

  • Lisa Omulo

  • Patryk Wasik

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  • Zahra Fakhraai

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• The role of elastic barriers in glass vitrification

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: 1. Luo, Peng, et al. "High-density stable glasses formed on soft substrates." Nature Materials 23.5 (2024): 688-694.

  Presenters

  • Zahra Fakhraai

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Zahra Fakhraai

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Peng Luo

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Sarah Wolf

    • SUNY Cortland

  • Shivajee Govind

    • Dupont Experimental Station

  • Richard Stephens

  • Aixi Zhang

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Juliana Bonilla

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Factors that Influence Long-Range Dynamical Gradients in Glasses and How They May Be Understood by Acoustic Waves

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Connie Roth

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Connie Roth

    • Emory University

  • Alexander Couturier

    • Emory University

  • James Merrill

    • Emory University

  • David Cai

    • Emory University

  • Justin Burton

    • Emory University

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• Inherent structure energy as the descriptor of mobility in glass formers

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Grigori Medvedev

    • Purdue University

  Authors

  • Grigori Medvedev

    • Purdue University

  • Jack Yungbluth

    • Purdue University

  • James Caruthers

    • Purdue University

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• Terahertz electrodynamics of ionic transport in AgI-AgPO₃ glasses

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Jennifer Freedberg

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Jennifer Freedberg

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Joe Maduzia

  • Ranveer Singh

  • Changjun Lee

    • University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  • Andias Santoso

  • Placid Ferreira

  • Fahad Mahmood

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Crystallization from orientationally ordered supercooled liquids

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Kushal Bagchi

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Kushal Bagchi

    • Rice University

  • Lingyu Wang

  • Nurjahan Khatun

    • Rice University

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• Reproducing classic Kovacs experiments on polydisperse hard sphere system

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • James Caruthers

    • Purdue University

  Authors

  • James Caruthers

    • Purdue University

  • Jack Yungbluth

    • Purdue University

  • Grigori Medvedev

    • Purdue University

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• The origin of sound damping in glasses: Defects and beyond

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Publication: 1) E. Flenner and G. Szamel, "The origin of sound damping in amorphous solids: Defects and beyond", Science Advances 11, eadu6097 (2025).
  2) G. Szamel and E. Flenner, "Sound attenuation in glasses", J. Chem. Phys. 163, 050903 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Grzegorz Szamel

    • Colorado State University

  Authors

  • Grzegorz Szamel

    • Colorado State University

  • Elijah Flenner

    • Colorado State University

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• Instantons in a Prototypical Mean-field RFOT Model

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Publication: Patrick Charbonneau, Giampaolo Folena, Enrico M. Malatesta, Tommaso Rizzo, Francesco Zamponi, "Rare Trajectories in a Prototypical Mean-field Disordered Model: Insights into Landscape and Instantons," arXiv:2505.00107 (2015).

  Presenters

  • Patrick Charbonneau

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Patrick Charbonneau

    • Duke University

  • Tomaso Rizzo

  • Giampaolo Folena

    • Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

  • Francesco Zamponi

    • University of Rome La Sapienza

  • Enrico Malatesta

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• From Transverse Phonons to the Boson Peak: Probing the Vibrational Correlations in Amorphous Materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Publication: Physical Review Letters 124, 225902 (2020).
  arXiv:2311.03466

  Presenters

  • Xiyang Li

    • Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences

  Authors

  • Xiyang Li

    • Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Xun-Li Wang

    • City Univ of Hong Kong

  • Maozhi Li

  • Huaping Zhang

  • Si Lan

  • Douglas Abernathy

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Chenhui HU

    • City Univ of Hong Kong

  • Lingrui Fan

    • City Univ of Hong Kong

  • Fangwei Wang

  • Yang Ren

    • City University of Hong Kong (CityU)

  • Toshiya Otomo

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