Thursday, MAY 15th, 2025
6:00-8:00 PM (EST)

Gregory B. Olson
Professor of the Practice ​
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Materials Science & Engineering
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Presenting:
"Genomic Materials Design: Making CyberSteels Fly"
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Location:
Boston University (BU)
Center for Computing and Data Sciences (CDS)
665 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215
Rm. 1101 (11th Floor)

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Abstract
Sixty years of academic collaboration and thirty years of commercialization by a network of small businesses have delivered a mature technology of computational materials design and accelerated qualification grounded in the CALPHAD system of fundamental databases now known as the Materials Genome. The national Materials Genome Initiative acknowledging the reality of this technology has spurred global interest and rapid adoption by US apex corporations. Designed materials with broad market impact now span a range from consumer electronics to space exploration. Ongoing design addresses the new alloys enabling new manufacturing methods such as 3D printing as well as the materials supporting affordable approaches to sustainability. The extreme compression of the materials development cycle has already enabled materials to participate in a new level of concurrent engineering with dramatic impact in manufacturing technologies.
About the Speaker
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Gregory B. Olson
Professor of the Practice ​ 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Materials Science & Engineering



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Gregory B. Olson is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT. He is a co-founder of the multi-institutional NIST-supported CHiMaD Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Director of its SRG Design Consortium, and a founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a fellow of ASM and TMS, he has authored more than 300 publications. He received a BS and MS in 1970 and ScD in 1974 in materials science from MIT and remained there in a series of senior research positions before joining Northwestern University as Professor in 1988, where he was appointed Wilson-Cook Professor of Engineering Design in 1999, W. P. Murphy Professor in 2010, and Professor Emeritus in 2019, before returning to MIT in 2020. Recent awards include the ASM Campbell Memorial Lectureship, the Cambridge University Kelly Lectureship, the ASM Gold Medal, the TMS Morris Cohen Award, the TMS Cyril Smith Award, the TMS Weertman Educator Award, and an honorary doctorate from KTH-Stockholm.
Technical Program
6:00 p.m.: Arrival, Registration, Social, Dinner Will be Served
6:30 p.m.: "Genomic Materials Design: Making CyberSteels Fly"​​ by Gregory B. Olson​
7:15 p.m.: Social & Networking
8:00 p.m.: Adjourn
Location & Directions
Boston University (BU)
Center for Computing and Data Sciences (CDS)
665 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215
Rm. 1101 (11th Floor)


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