[Faculty] Fwd: [CSRC.COLLOQUIUM] "Combining Physics and AI to Understand the Behavior of Molecules "

[Jose Castillo]

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***** Registration is required in order to get the link to join the seminar
online. Please register at the below web page.*


DATE:
*Friday, April 16, 2021*


TITLE:
*Combining Physics and AI to Understand the Behavior of Molecules *


TIME:
*3:30-5:00PM*



LOCATION:
*Registration is required in advance.  Please register at the following
site to receive information on how to join the seminar online.   *Meeting
Registration - Zoom
<https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucOuhqjojGt3Kb7AHNXS4WTKGOm4bJrDH>


SPEAKER/BIO:
*Dr. Joshua A. Rackers, Truman Fellow, Computational Multiscale, Sandia
National Laboratories *


ABSTRACT:

Understanding life at the molecular scale is eminently important. The
ability to predict how molecules will behave or interact would give us the
capacity to design new materials and find new medicines. What makes this
challenge hard is the nature of the rules that govern life at the molecular
scale: quantum physics. Because of the complexity of quantum mechanics,
finding accurate solutions to systems with anything more than a few atoms
is basically impossible. In this talk I will present how we can use machine
learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to circumvent this problem.
With these methods we have the potential to simulate molecules as big as
proteins at quantum-level accuracy.

Bio: Josh Rackers is a Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories where
he studies how to do quantum accurate simulations of biological molecules.
Prior to joining Sandia, Josh obtained a Ph.D. in Biophysics from
Washington University in St. Louis. Josh grew up in the Ohio and attended
Ohio State University, where he majored in Physics and Political Science.
He spent three years teaching high school physics and chemistry in
Baltimore, 26 Maryland before ultimately heading back into research. The
experience of teaching has stuck with Josh, personally and professionally.
He is passionate about his work not only because of its scientific
potential, but also because it is accessible to anyone who wants to use
physics to understand the biological world.


Host:
*Antoni Luque, Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University*


Note: Videos of previous colloquium talks can be seen on the CSRC website
in the colloquium archive section or on the CSRC YouTube page here
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0ZEztlmyDqG2pm-Rle_Eg/feed>.




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