October 9 Membership Meeting Explores AI Advances in Materials Discovery

Ellad Tadmor is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at U of M, and he will lead our program on Wednesday, October 9, at Christ the King Lutheran church (8600 Freemont Ave S in Bloomington. Map unavailable. Check Google). He will talk about how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing materials discovery. He spoke to us years ago at the Historic Fort Snelling Auditorium with a combined meeting with the MN Clockmakers Guild.

Prof. Tadmor uses theoretical models and computer simulations to understand material behavior and failure from the fundamental interactions of their atoms. This requires a multiscale approach that can link processes occurring on atomic scales to the scales of human perception.

I looked at his fall class load, and he is teaching a graduate level course on Continuum Mechanics, which is the fundamental subject that serves as the foundation for solid and fluid mechanics. It provides the most general description of the deformation and response of materials to external loading. He says that this is his favorite class to teach because it shows students how most everything they learned in their undergraduate engineering curriculum is unified and generalized in this course.

Note: If you’re over 62, you can take the course for the price of books and parking. It’s course # is AEM5501. Don’t know about you, but I don’t think I would be his best student

We will enjoy our customary potluck at 6:30 pm, so be sure to bring a dish to pass and some of your favorite show-n-tell items.

— Richard Zielike