Gorti Sarma of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., discusses "meso-scale modeling of microstructure and texture evolution during thermo mechanical processsing" during the Symposium of Predictive Science and Technology of Mechanics and Materials at MSU's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems. The event brought scientific minds together to examine areas, including human interactions and multi-scale modeling of metals, polymers, composites and bio-inspired materials.