Creating and studying materials using computational methods

[ruslana.kolesnichenko]

I completely agree that developing new materials, as well as studying and documenting properties of those occuring in nature, is of utmost importance for technological advancement. There is no doubt that the modern computational methods, their increasing speed and avaliability, give us amazing new opportunities for rapid progress in this field. I, however, think that we should not undervalue the human input and rely solely on “brute force” computations (I’m pretty sure it’s not how it works anyways, but the video in question doesn’t provide much information). I’m certain that computational methods should be developed in combination with gaining more theoretical insights in the field of material science, in order to make the process more efficient.

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