Smarter Alloy Design, Now at Your Fingertips: Introducing TAOS from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
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Discover how Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is making metal alloy design faster, easier, and more accessible with TAOS – The Alloy Optimization Software.
TAOS is a cross-platform tool that helps users design new alloys based on target properties like melting temperature or phase stability — without requiring deep expertise in materials science. With an intuitive interface and powerful back-end modeling, TAOS allows users in aerospace, automotive, power generation, electronics and more to screen large multicomponent systems in minutes using a standard computer. This enables non-experts to develop new complex metal alloys for unique industrial applications in an accelerated, flexible and cost-efficent way.
The software is currently being packaged for broad use, and a free demo version is available under an evaluation license. This webinar will show how TAOS works and how you can access and use the tool to explore its potential in your own materials development efforts — a growing demand in various manufacturing industries.
What You’ll Learn:
- How TAOS streamlines metal alloy design using CALPHAD modeling and a simple graphical interface
- How to define constraints, explore compositions, and identify optimal candidates in less time
- Where and how to request the free three-month demo version of TAOS for evaluation
- Use cases and potential applications in alloy development and advanced manufacturing
- Live Q&A with the lead developer from LLNL
Try TAOS for Yourself
Attendees interested in evaluating the tool can request a free demo version through LLNL’s software portal. Request the demo »
Featured Speaker: Dr. Aurélien Perron
Dr. Aurélien Perron is a materials scientist and Deputy Group Leader in the Actinides and Lanthanide Science group of the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) whose research focuses on alloy design, thermodynamic modeling, and microstructure evolution. He leads projects at LLNL focusing on alloy optimization and software development such as the “Advanced computational thermodynamics and kinetics” project under the Critical Materials Innovation Hub and “TAOS” under the Technology Transfer Tech Mat Grants Program (NA-10.1), with the goal of applying CALPHAD methods to accelerate the discovery and application of new alloys.
Other Speakers:
Moderator: Hannah Farquar
Hannah Farquar leads the Business Intelligence and Market Analysis group within Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO). In her role, Hannah is responsible for evaluating LLNL intellectual assets and developing commercialization pathways with private sector collaboration. As a result, she has a broad base of knowledge of the entire LLNL intellectual property portfolio. Hannah also manages the entrepreneurial training programs that teach business skills to LLNL researchers and leverages their knowledge and learning to move technologies closer to commercialization.
Hannah is a science and technology enthusiast by birth and training. She earned her PhD in Chemistry from Louisiana State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before moving to LLNL. The transition from benchtop to desktop has led her to over a decade in technology transfer — the unique intersection of science, business and law.
Licensing: Mary Holden-Sanchez
Mary Holden-Sanchez is the IPO Business Development Executive who manages LLNL's digital assets portfolio — moving digital technologies developed at the Laboratory toward commercialization and partnerships. She is also dedicated to ensuring LLNL authored software is properly distributed outside the Laboratory for others to use. Mary is responsible for managing LLNL's online software review system as well as executing software license agreements for commercial entities, individuals, and government agencies from around the world.
Mary has been part of the IPO team for over 20 years; a career she finds very fulfilling since it contains variety, regularly poses interesting challenges, and offers exciting opportunities for interactions with LLNL software developers. In 2022, Mary won the DOE’s Technology Transfer Working Group “Best in Class” licensing award for her exceptional work with LLNL’s NEC (Numerical Electromagnetic Code) software.
Smarter alloy design starts here.
Join us to learn how TAOS can support your materials innovation—and how to get started with your own evaluation.