Event-based relaxation of continuous disordered systems
  A computational approach is presented to obtain energy-minimized structures in glassy materials. This approach, the activation-relaxation technique (ART), achieves its efficiency by focusing on significant changes in the microscopic structure (events). The application of ART is illustrated with two examples: the structure of amorphous silicon, and the structure of Ni80P20, a metallic glass. 
G.T. Barkema (IAS, Princeton), Normand Mousseau (Universite de   Montreal)