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SUMMARY:Toward a "Moore's Law" for Metals ? 
DTSTART:20130207T171500
DTSTAMP:20260510T101041Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. William Curtin\, Director of the Institute of Mechanical
  Engineering Bio: After gaining a BS and an MS in Physics at Brown Univers
 ity\, then a PhD in theoretical physics at Cornell University\, he left th
 e academic world for industry\, working in the Applied Physics Group of BP
  (British Petroleum). There he addressed hydrogen storage in amorphous met
 al alloys and the mechanics of fiber-reinforced composites\, to guide deve
 lopment of materials with enhanced performance. \nAfter seven years at BP
 \, he came back to the academic world\, but with less focus on physics. He
  settled down at Virginia Tech and for five years held a position as profe
 ssor attached to two engineering departments: materials science and engine
 ering mechanics. He joined the solid mechanics group at Brown in 1998. 'Br
 own had an international reputation in solid mechanics. It was the best pl
 ace for the type of research I wanted to conduct'\, explains the professor
 . At that point\, he had the necessary skills to study the behaviour of ma
 terials at all levels. 'I had studied phenomena at the atomic and quantum 
 levels during my PhD and at BP\, I had modeled composites on the continuum
  scale. When I arrived at Brown\, I was able to leverage these competences
  and work on multi-scale modeling.' Prof. Curtin joined the EPFL as Direct
 or of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 2012.\nThe inaugural lect
 ure of Prof. Bill Curtin
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