Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

Low temperature phases, ordering and dynamics in random media.- Statics and dynamics of the flux-line lattice in high-Tc superconductors.- Magnetic flux line lattices in the cuprate superconductors.- Theory and experiment of flux pinning and flux creep in high Tc superconductors.- Vortex line fluctuations in superconductors from elementary quantum mechanics.- Anisotropy and strong pinning in YBa2Cu3O7 with Y2BaCuO5 inclusions.- Interstitial and vacancy proliferation in flux line lattices.- Simulations of relaxation, pinning, and melting in flux lattices.- I-V characteristics of high temperature superconductors with correlated defects.- Relaxation near glass transition singularities.- Neutron scattering at the glass transition.- Susceptibilty studies of supercooled liquids and glasses.- Hierarchical melting of one-dimensionalincommensurate structures.- Charge density waves, phase slips, and instabilities.- Universality in commensurate-incommensurate phase transitions.- Glassy behaviour of the charge/spin density wave ground state.- The critical behavior of 1-d charge density waves.- Electron solidification in two dimensions.- Two-dimensional Wigner solid versus incompressible quantum liquid.- Domain growth and coarsening.- Critical wrinkling of depinned interfaces,strings and membranes.