AI/ML, multiscale modeling, and emergence

Douglas Natelson (noreply@blogger.com)
I've been attending a lot of talks lately about AI/machine learning and multiscale modeling for materials design and control. This is a vast, rapidly evolving research area, so here is a little background and a few disorganized thoughts. For a recent review article about AI and materials discovery, see here. There is a ton of work being done pursuing the grand goal of inverse design - name some desired properties, and have AI/ML formulate a material that fits those requirements and is actually..