CCS Seminar
Professor Harvey Gould
Clark University - Physics Department
FRIDAY - November 2, 2007
12:00 noon
Physics Research Building - Room 595
3 Cummington Street

"Approaching and Leaving Metastability"

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.