Publisher's Synopsis
The 51st session of the Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical physics was devoted to the important recent theoretical and experimental developments in the physics and chemistry of the liquid state and its transition towards crystalline (freezing) and amorphous (glass transition) solid states. Part I contains the more basic lecture courses while the second part deals with applications to specific systems and phenomena or techniques and contains the invited seminars.;The two volumes together contain the first complete review of some of the most important recent advances, including the statistical mechanics of liquid crystal models, of the kinetic glass transition, of colloidal suspensions and of quantum processes in liquids.
