The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) will debut a first-of-a-kind “Virtual Symposium: Digital Tribology” on July 19-20 from 8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. CDT.
STLE is the premier technical society serving the tribology and lubrication engineering business sector.
The symposium will bring together leading computational, experimental, and data scientists for two half-day discussions to advance the understanding of mechanical, chemical, and electrical processes on surfaces, lubricants, and tribosystems. Presenters will evaluate ongoing research efforts and devise new strategies to leverage enhanced capabilities resulting from exascale computing, new artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) methods, novel material and chemical synthesis and characterization techniques, and experimental facilities to design sustainable and efficient interfaces.
“New digital advancements are enabling tribological capabilities not possible before now,” said Edward P. Salek, CAE, STLE executive director. “And our new symposium will allow members of the tribology and lubrication fields to collaborate and get the information they need to stay ahead of what’s next in digital tribology.”
Symposium themes include:
- Introduction to data science, AI/ML and related topics.
- Data-driven design of new tribo-surfaces and interfaces.
- Mining database for interfacial properties.
- Discriminative, generative, and reinforcement learning for material discovery.
- Transfer learning from molecular simulations to mechanical design.
- Tribology under extreme environments and highly non-equilibrium conditions.
- Shock/high-velocity phenomena and excited-state simulations for phototribology.
- Parameterization of reactive atomistic potentials for new interfacial chemistries.
- Ultrafast experiments for exploring nanoscale processes at surfaces/interfaces.
- Capturing multiscale and multiphysics phenomena in tribosystems.
- Digital twins and coarse-grained simulations of chemomechanical interfaces.
- Accelerated dynamics and other methods to characterize long-term behavior.
- Effects of charge transfer, electric and magnetic fields at electrified interfaces.
The two-day registration fee is $99 for STLE members, $149 for non-members, and $25 for students. Registration includes access to live technical presentations on both days and on-demand recordings.
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