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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Emergent Computing in Mechanical Metamaterials
DTSTART:20231003T120000
DTEND:20231003T130000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Martin van Hecke\, Mechanical Metamaterials Group\, AMO
 LF\, and Leiden University\nAbstract: Bistable elements\, controlled by bu
 ckling and snapping\, naturally act as mechanical bits. The central tenet 
 of this talk is that interactions between such bits allow flexible (meta) 
 materials to exhibit complex orbits and store and process information. I w
 ill discuss metamaterials that count how often they are compressed and tha
 t can select and process input strings composed of complex compression cyc
 les. These materials can be mapped to finite state machines so that their 
 computational power can precisely be characterized. This work shines new l
 ight on the nonlinear response of complex materials and opens the door to 
 ‘intelligent matter’.\n\nBiography: Martin van Hecke is a group leader
  at AMOLF\, Amsterdam\, and a professor of physics at Leiden University. H
 e works on the emergence of complex behavior in flexible and frustrated ma
 tter\, combining experiments\, simulations and theory. In the past decade 
 he developed programmable\, shape-shifting and self-folding metamaterials 
 which straddle the boundary between material and machine\; he is currently
  exploring how complex materials – from multistable metamaterials to cru
 mpled sheets – can be understood from the perspective of information pro
 cessing.
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418 https://epf
 l.zoom.us/j/61626448592
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