Session 4: Topology and Rigidity

Understanding structure–property relationships in glasses is extremely challenging due to their disordered structure. Topology, connectivity, and homology concepts have enabled many breakthroughs, both from a fundamental perspective and practical standpoint, in the area of glass science. The aim of this session is to focus on the recent advances in the field of composition-structure–property relationships disordered materials through experimental, computational, and theoretical studies.

The broad topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, topology and rigidity in glasses; effect of extreme conditions on the atomic topology and connectivity; topological modeling applied to the prediction of glasses’ properties; quantifying the medium-range order–composition relationships through persistent homology; quantifying the short-range order–composition relationships through statistical mechanics; topology-based machine learning; and connectivity, topology, and homology beyond oxide glasses (granular materials, gels, disordered solids, phase-change materials, proteins).

organizers:

• N.M. Anoop Krishan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, krishnan@iitd.ac.in
• Mathieu Bauchy, University of California Los Angeles, USA, bauchy@ucla.edu
• Morten Smedskjaer, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, mos@bio.aau.dk