David Srolovitz - Materials Science and Engineering - research and teaching from a theorist's perspective

Professor David Srolovitz has made many important contributions to materials science and engineering during his career.  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and will be receiving the Hume-Rothery award at TMS next year.  He was visiting Michigan to present the Larry Van Vlack lecture and we were honored by his presence.  Dave and Steve were grad students together at U. PA many years ago.  Liz Holm, the UM Materials Science and Engineering chair was Dave's second PhD student when Dave was a professor at UM.  Unfortunately, Dave's schedule was tight and the only time we were able to sit down with him was during Tim's class.  So Liz graciously sat if for Tim and was this week's guest host.  It was great to talk to Dave and Liz about his career, teaching, research, AI, and other topics.  We even found out where Dave gets his best ideas!  Dave is currently the Dean of Engineering at Hong Kong University.  You can find the YouTube version here:https://youtu.be/fUpfMayle3IOur YouTube channel can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/@Undercooled.MaterialsThis episode is sponsored by the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).