Faculty of Biomedical Engineering

Dr Erich Wimmer, scientific director of Materials Design, a company that develops software for materials research, will give a lecture at the Silesian University of Technology.
The event will take place on Wednesday, 12 June at 12:00 in Hall A of the Education and Congress Centre, at 18 B Konarskiego Street, Gliwice.

Title: Multiscale Materials Modeling in the Age of Machine Learning

Modeling the processing, service performance, and environmental degradation of materials is a multiscale and multiphysics challenge. This applies to a wide range of materials including batteries, high-strength and light-weight materials, biodegradable polymers, materials for electronic and optical applications, and materials for extreme conditions such as fusion reactors. This lecture will provide an overview of the present approaches encompassing advanced electronic structure methods, large-scale atomistic simulations using machine-learned interatomic potentials, and finite element methods capturing microstructures and their evolution. Specific examples will include Li-ion batteries, radiation damage and corrosion in the current generation of nuclear power plants and in future fusion reactors, as well as examples from polymers and fluids related to CO2 capture. An assessment of current capabilities of physics-based simulations and machine learning will show the exciting opportunities for future research and developments in multiscale materials modeling.