Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming computational mechanics, yet many AI-driven models remain limited by poor interpretability, weak generalization, and insufficient physical ...

Chris Van de Walle, a distinguished professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the American Physical Society’s 2025 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, the highest honor ...

A computational method for finding transition states in chemical reactions, greatly reducing computational costs with high reliability, has been devised. Compared to the most widely used existing ...

With an applied physics: computational degree, you’ll gain specialized expertise in mathematical modeling, simulation, and data analysis, preparing you for careers in technology and research. Become ...

Foundation models are AI systems trained on vast amounts of data — often trillions of individual data points — and they are capable of learning new ways of modeling information and performing a range ...