Objective "Glassy systems are central in several fields from statistical mechanics and soft matter to material sciences and biophysics and they appear even in completely different areas of science such as information theory, computer science, agent-based models and game theory.The aim of this project is to develop a new, possibly groundbreaking, approach to glassy systems based on the non-perturbative renormalization group (NPRG) formalism. Modern theoretical approaches to glassy systems suffer from severe limitations; it is not clear whether and how one can improve them, and their current status is far from providing a coherent and satisfactory theory. For reasons detailed below, I believe that the NPRG approach is the long-sought theoretical framework to tackle the glass problem and that it will eventually lead to its solution. I will focus on the problem of the glass transition and the physics of glass-forming liquids. I expect that the progress we will make in this direction will also be instrumental also for other glassy systems such as spin glasses, quantum glasses and jamming systems." Fields of science natural sciencesphysical sciencescondensed matter physicssoft matter physicsengineering and technologymaterials engineeringnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsgame theorynatural sciencesphysical sciencesclassical mechanicsstatistical mechanics Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-SG-PE2 - ERC Starting Grant - Fundamental constituents of matter Call for proposal ERC-2011-StG_20101014 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Coordinator COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES Address Rue leblanc 25 75015 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Principal investigator Giulio Biroli (Dr.) Administrative Contact Jean-Christophe Coste (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES France EU contribution € 929 202,33 Address Rue leblanc 25 75015 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Principal investigator Giulio Biroli (Dr.) Administrative Contact Jean-Christophe Coste (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 France EU contribution € 81 597,67 Address Place jussieu 4 75252 Paris See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anaïs Desclos (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
