Glass & Entropy: Looking back at the first two meetings
The idea to organize an international workshop dedicated to glass and entropy was born during the session "Thermodynamics, Rheology, and Glass Transition" held at the XXIst International Congress on Glass, Strasbourg 2007. There, controversial viewpoints and opinions on the entropy of the glassy state surfaced in a highly emotional scientific debate. Since then, none of the controversial issues could be resolved in a satisfactory way, and more and more researchers from different fields (glass and polymer sciences, statistical mechanics, computational simulation) agreed that there is a need to meet, on a regular and long-term basis, within the frame of a series of workshops specifically dedicated to glass and its entropy. As a consequence, representatives from Corning's European Technology Center, Avon, France spontaneously opted to sponsor the first international workshop on glass and entropy, and Profs. Lothar Wondraczek and Reinhard Conradt, both from Germany, agreed to organize and chair it. This first workshop was endorsed by the newly founded Technical Committee...