This calendar includes all events from the following individual calendars: Department of Chemistry Alumni Events (events for an alumni audience), Department Events (events of general interest and/or relevant to all Chemistry research areas), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Events, Public Events, and events related to Chemistry research areas and programs (Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Inorganic Chemistry & Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry), as well as Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminars & Events.

"Food for Thought" presentation by Nicholas Jackson, assistant professor of chemistry

Oct 8, 2026 11:00 - 11:45 am

Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St, Urbana

Seminar/Symposium

Sponsor

Center for Advanced Study

Speaker

Nicholas Jackson, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

E-Mail

cas@cas.illinois.edu

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Food for Thought: A series of public events featuring research and creative projects by recent Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Associates and Fellows.

We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations.

Nicholas Jackson, CAS Fellow 2025-26, Chemistry

Designing Polymers in the AI Era

Artificial intelligence has reshaped fields where data are plentiful, and the goal is easy to state. Polymer science is neither: the molecules are large, defective, and flexible, the properties we care about emerge only from collective behavior, and the space of possible chemistries is enormous but constrained by what a chemist can actually synthesize. Professor Jackson will discuss how his group is designing AI methods that bypass these challenges to try to improve the design of polymers across numerous materials applications.

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