{"id":1901,"date":"2026-01-15T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:35:30","slug":"leading-expert-advincula-scheduled-to-speak-at-upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/leading-expert-advincula-scheduled-to-speak-at-upcoming-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Expert Advincula Scheduled to Speak at Upcoming Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rigoberto Advincula, the UT-ORNL Governor\u2019s Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials and a joint professor in UT\u2019s Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and ORNL, will be a scheduled speaker for national and international audiences at two upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>Advincula will be speaking at the Society of Plastics Engineers International Polyolefins Conference and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nae.edu\/343002\/NAE-MLE-Materials-Genome-Initiative\">at a virtual webinar for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The webinar on January 16th includes authors who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nae.edu\/340906\/Fall-Bridge-on-the-Materials-Genome-Initiative\">wrote articles for BRIDGE<\/a>, an NAE journal, for the Fall 2025 issue dedicated to AI\/ML and the Materials Genome Initiative. UT Materials Science Weston Fulton Professor Sergei Kalinin is also a speaker on the webinar.<\/p>\n<p>Advincula will discuss new frontiers in AI\/ML-driven polymer research, as well as the importance of self-driving laboratories (SDLs). The \u201cNAE webinar is timely, given the high interest in the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Genesis Mission\u201d, Advincula said.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Advincula will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/spe-stx.org\/speakers\/\">plenary speaker for the 2026 SPE International Polyolefins Conference<\/a> in Galveston, Texas. He is one of four plenary speakers at the conference, which is expected to draw nearly 1,000 participants in person or virtually. The international meeting is an important annual event for the plastics and polyolefins community. The discussions by the plenary speakers will be live streamed to a worldwide audience, both within industry and academia.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h4 orange-mark\">Contact<\/h2>\n<p>Rhiannon Potkey (<a href=\"mailto:rpotkey@utk.edu\">rpotkey@utk.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rigoberto Advincula, the UT-ORNL Governor\u2019s Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials and a joint professor in UT\u2019s Departments of Chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[522],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news","tag-rigoberto-advincula"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leading Expert Advincula Scheduled to Speak at Upcoming Events - 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