Title: Artificially Intelligent Alternative to Equation-less modeling: Dare to Delegate

Speaker: Alex Slepoy, Sandia National Laboratories

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 3:00-4:00 pm

Location: Building 980, Room 95 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract: An important methodology, emerging in multi-scale modeling, uses an equation-less method to overcome lack of descriptive equations at the higher scale. Unfortunately, such methods rely on great degree of smoothness in the meso-scale derivatives for their efficiency. 

I propose an alternative strategy to equation-less modeling using approaches from the automatic reasoning formalism. I apply the approach to classical force field fitting using ab initio electronic structure information. I motivate the approach in the context of the "missing scales".

CSRI POC: Richard B. Lehoucq, (505) 845-8929