Simon RogersDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Recovery Rheology Rheological studies of real-world behaviors use idealized protocols to elucidate the underlying constitutive relations and are typically based on measurements of the stress response to strains or strain rates or vice versa. Strains and rates can therefore be thought of as rheological “atoms”,...

Joel PaulsonDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization: A Sequential Learning Framework for Accelerating Scientific Design and Discovery Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing non-convex black-box functions that are expensive and/or time-consuming to evaluate and subject to random noise in their observations. Many important real-world science...

Michael WebbDepartment of Chemical EngineeringPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, NJ Data-driven Strategies to Navigate Sequence, Composition, and ArchitecturalComplexity in Polymer Design Understanding and designing polymers with target structural and/or functional properties are grand challenges in materials science. The field of polymer physics provides invaluable scaffolding to elucidate general phenomena of polymer-based materials, but contributions fall short of proffering...