One of Star Trek: Discovery’’s most exciting, fictional advancement is something called “programmable matter.” Reddit called it Star Trek’s newest use of “Handwavium,” but in real life, here and now, this year, at the City University of New York, Prof Vinod Menon, one of our favorite guests – is working on making it so. GUEST: Prof. & Chair, Vinod Menon, CCNY https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/vinod-menon-0 Laboratory of Nano and Micro Photonics www.lanmp.org​ Guest List Prof. Vinod Menon Physic

An AI-Driven Design Framework for Programmable Material Systems