Lester Owen Hedges

Department of Chemistry
UC Berkeley
Berkeley
CA 94720

Phone: 510-643-7128
Fax: 510-643-1566

Member of David Chandler's research group.

Research Interests

• Statistical physics of supercooled fluids and glasses.
• Fast simulation of facilitated spin models.
• Dynamical behaviour of the triangular lattice gas.
• Dynamic propensity.
• Metabasin transitions in kinetically constrained models.
• Phase separation.

Brief vita

• Jan 2008 - Present: Postdoc, UC Berkeley.
• Sep 2004 - 2007: PhD, University of Nottingham.
• 2000 - 04: MSci, University of Nottingham.
• A brief CV can be found here.

Publications

• Dynamic facilitation explains democratic particle motion of metabasin transitions
  Lester. O. Hedges and Juan. P. Garrahan, J. Phys. A41, 3244006 (2008).
• De-coupling of Exchange and Persistence Times in Atomistic Models of Glass Formers
  L.O. Hedges, L. Maibaum, D. Chandler and J.P. Garrahan, J. Chem. Phys 127 211101 (2007)
• Dynamic propensity in a kinetically constrained lattice gas
  Lester. O. Hedges and Juan. P. Garrahan, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 19 (2007)
• Fast Simulation of Facilitated Spin Models
  Douglas. J. Ashton, Lester. O. Hedges and Juan. P. Garrahan, J. Stat. Mech. (2005) P12010
  Also published as a short review, Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol 40 (2006)
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Collaborators past and present

• My postgraduate research was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Juan Garrahan at the University of Nottingham.
• Douglas Ashton is another member of Juan Garrahan's group.
• Dr Rob Jack is a former member of the Chandler Group now working at the university of Bath.

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