Materials Design and Discovery: How Can Computations Help?
| Date/Time: | Monday, 26 Oct 2015 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Physics 0003 |
| Phone: | 515-294-5441 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Abstract: Advanced materials are essential to economic security and human well-being, with applications in industries aimed at addressing challenges in clean energy, national security, and human welfare, yet it can take 20 or more years to move a material after initial discovery to the market. Accelerating the pace of discovery and deployment of advanced material systems will therefore be crucial to achieving global competitiveness in the 21st century. In this talk, I will discuss the US Materials Genome Initiative and show that accurate and fast computational structure/property determinations can complement the traditional experimental try and error efforts in material design and discovery to accelerate the pace of technological advances.
Bio: Dr. Wang received B. S. Physics in 1982 from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Ph.D., 1986 Condensed Matter Physics, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. He joined Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University as a postdoctoral fellow in 1987 and has been a senior Physicist and Field Work Project (FWP) leader for "Exploratory Development of Theoretical Methods" at Ames Laboratory since 2008. The general area of research of Dr. Wang is computational and theoretical condensed matter physics and materials science. He was elected the Fellow of American Physical Society in 2014 and received U.S. Department of Energy Materials Science Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics in 1996. He has refereed Journal Publications: 300+, Books Chapter and Review Articles: 22 Invited Talks: 100+, Total Citations: 8000+ Highest Citations on Single Paper: 550+, h-index: 45.