The CSHub in Retrospective and Perspective: Role of Molecular Modeling and Simulations

In this webinar, we share personal observations and commentaries on how the Concrete Sustainability Hub has evolved as an academic-industrial alliance at MIT, in the spirit of leveraging lessons learned to exploit anticipated opportunities. Since the Hub’s founding in 2009, molecular modeling and simulations have enabled progress toward understanding the physics and mechanics of calcium-silicate-hydrate in cement paste setting, and more generally, the mechanisms of time-dependent rheological behavior of soft-matter at the meso-scale. Given MIT’s newly declared commitments to advance the computer and computational science of artificial intelligence, we foresee an exciting role for the CSHub to shape the future of concrete science and technology.

This webinar will be presented by Dr. Sidney Yip, CSHub Principal Investigator and Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.

The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) webinar series offers information of general interest to members of the building, paving, and construction communities, as well as to educators, students, journalists, and law and policy-makers interested in the environmental and economic impacts of decision-making concerning infrastructure. Videos of past webinars are archived to the CSHub YouTube Channel.

Webinars are free and open to the public. Presentations are geared toward a lay audience.