William Goddard

Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor, Schrodinger

Search every verified William Goddard interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. William Goddard, co-founder and scientific advisor at Schrödinger, participated in the October 2023 conference "Interfaces and Mixing in Fluids, Plasmas, and Materials" at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in Santa Barbara, California. In his role as a coordinator, he delivered closing remarks summarizing the conference's focus on dynamic equilibrium and interfaces, noting their importance in turbulence and in atomic events under extreme conditions such as high and low energy density, warm dense matter, supernova dynamics, molecular clouds, and solar flares. He stated that the conference aimed to advance predictive theoretical capabilities for non-equilibrium dynamics and kinetics of interfaces and mixing, and he expressed appreciation for the organizers and participants, adding that all talks were recorded and would be made available online. In March 2017, Goddard was invited by Professor Fahmi Bedoui to give a lecture at the Roberval laboratory, where he discussed multiscale simulations of materials with applications to fuel cells, batteries, catalysts, ceramics, and polymers. During that visit, he addressed the challenge of linking atomic-scale interactions to macroscopic material behavior, noting that traditional continuum mechanics approaches become unreliable below the nanometer scale and that theoretical simulation methods could help guide strategic material development choices.