{"id":37663,"date":"2025-04-14T01:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/?post_type=events&p=37663"},"modified":"2025-04-14T01:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T23:27:49","slug":"physics-colloquium-artificial-intelligence-for-materials-science-by-prof-dr-matthias-scheffler","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/events\/physics-colloquium-artificial-intelligence-for-materials-science-by-prof-dr-matthias-scheffler\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Colloquium: “Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science” by Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nArtificial Intelligence for Materials Science<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\nAbstract<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Properties and functions of materials are typically governed by a high intricacy of various processes, making explicit atomistic or electronic-structure modeling highly challenging or even impractical. As a result, the integration of artificial intelligence tools has been a game-changer and a paradigm shift. Often, material functions are triggered by rare events that may be absent in the training data, smoothed away by regularization, or AI may predict fake events. I will discuss how this challenge can be addressed, also considering the frequently overlooked uncertainty in AI predictions. I will explore how machine learning can identify “rules” and “materials genes”, enabling active learning for systematic, efficient predictions of new or even novel materials with improved performance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nAbout the speaker<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Matthias Scheffler <\/a>is a German theoretical physicist whose research focuses on condensed matter theory, materials science, and artificial intelligence. He is particularly known for his contributions to density-functional theory and many-electron quantum mechanics and for his development of multiscale approaches. In the latter, he combines electronic-structure theory with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and also employs numerical methods from engineering. Matthias Scheffler studied physics at Technische Universit\u00e4t (TU) Berlin. He carried out his doctoral work in the field of theoretical solid-state physics at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) and received his Ph.D. from the TU Berlin in 1978. He then moved to the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig, where he was employed as a research associate from 1978 to 1987. From 1979 to 1980, he was also a visiting scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA. He received his habilitation in 1984 from the TU Berlin. In 1988, he was appointed as a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and the founding director of the Theory Department of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. The following year, he received an honorary professorship at the TU Berlin. This was followed by further honorary professorships at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (2006), Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin (2016), and in Hokkaido, Japan (2016). He has also been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computational Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2005. Since 2015, he has headed the European Center of Excellence NOMAD (Novel Materials Discovery) since 2020, the NOMAD Laboratory at the FHI, and since 2021, he has been Deputy Spokesperson of the FAIRmat project at the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Awards and honors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001 Max Planck Research Award jointly awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003 Medard W. Welch Award of the AVS (association for science and technology of materials, interfaces and processing)2004 Max Born Medal and Prize jointly awarded by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the German Physical Society (DPG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007 Honorary doctorate from the Lund University, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010 Rudolf Jaeckel Prize of the German Vacuum Society (DVG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1998 Fellow of the American Physical Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2002 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2017 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On-site at Campus Limpertsberg<\/strong>, you will have the opportunity to meet the speaker<\/strong> over a walking lunch from noon to all registered participants (Hall B\u00e2timent des Sciences). The talk <\/strong>will be at 1 PM <\/strong>in BS 0.03<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n