- Sponsor
- Center for Advanced Study
- Speaker
- Nicholas Jackson, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- cas@cas.illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Chemistry - Department Events
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.