AMUSE

Date: November 29, 2017

Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Location: BLOC 220

Speaker: Dr. Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University, Department of Materials Science and En

Title: New Frontiers in Matherials Discovery

Abstract: While it may seem like the title of this talk has a typo, I really meant it! Many of society’s most pressing challenges require the development of new technologies, which in turn often require the development of new materials. Materials discovery, however, is extremely time-consuming. Because of this, the field of materials science is rapidly trying to adapt new methods and frameworks to accelerate the discovery of materials. In this talk, I will provide some examples from my own research program where we have used advanced mathematical and computational techniques to discover new materials or improve existing ones. The examples I will talk about use ideas from mathematical optimization, search, informatics, artificial intelligence, operations research, optimal learning, and even game theory to discover new materials. I will show how using these techniques we have been able to discover and develop new materials at a rate that is significantly faster than using traditional methods.