Intermetallic alloys: patterns and complexity. Final technical report

This report summarizes the research accomplishment of the P.I. and her collaborators. The major findings are (a) in the area of ordering in metallic alloys, the interplay between chemical and structural short-range order and (b) in the area of glassy dynamics in frustrated spin models. In the context of alloys, the development of a theoretical framework for incorporating the correlation between chemical and structural degrees of freedom has been a major accomplishment. The work on frustrated spin models has had a major impact on the understanding of the glass transition