Wednesday March 19 3-4pm
in CISX 101
Prof. Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University will give a seminar
titled "Materials Informatics for MEMS Design and Nanodevices."
Please come hear his talk about this unique perspective on materials
research.
-Abstract-
Materials science seeks to understand structure-property
relationships, which can be very complex and difficult to discover.
?Materials Informatics? can enable one to survey complex, multiscale
information in a high throughput, statistically robust, and yet
physically meaningful manner. The application of such approaches can
have a significant impact in materials design and discovery. While
informatics is well established in fields such as biology, drug
discovery, astronomy and quantitative social sciences, its
applications to materials science problems is relatively new. This
presentation will demonstrate examples of how the use of data mining
techniques in a wide array of materials science problems can help to
address the challenges of informational complexity. Examples are
provided in the context of fundamental materials science problems that
are relevant to M/NEMS structures and nanomaterials in general.
-Biosketch-
Prof. Krishna Rajan is the Stanley Chair Professor in
Interdisciplinary Engineering and a member of the Department of
Materials Sciences and Engineering at Iowa State University. After
receiving his doctorate in 1978 from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Materials Science, he held a research appointment at MIT
and at the Metallurgy and Materials Science Department at Cambridge
University until 1980. From 1980-87 he was staff scientist at the
National Research Council of Canada. In 1987, he joined the faculty at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he became a full professor in
1993. Prof. Rajan moved to Iowa State University in 2005, were he
heads CoSMIC, the Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics
Collaboratory, which is supported by the NSF and the International
Materials Institute. Prof. Rajan?s research interests focus on the
microstructural aspects of materials science with a major effort in
the applications of high-resolution electron microscopy. Professor
Rajan?s research extends into coupling new developments in computer
and mathematical sciences into combinatorial materials science and
informatics. Based on these efforts he has established the first
academic program in materials informatics and combinatorial materials
science in a major Materials Science department in the United States.
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