Accelerating Quantum Materials Discovery Workshop
Agenda
Workshop overview:
| Monday, June 22 | Tuesday, June 23 | Wednesday, June 24 | Thursday, June 25 |
| Breakfast (at hotel) | Breakfast (at hotel) | Breakfast (at hotel) | Breakfast (at hotel) |
| Talk Session 1 | Talk Session 4 | Talk Session 8 | Talk Session 12 |
| Talk Session 2 | Talk Session 5 | Talk Session 9 | Talk Session 13 |
| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| Talk Session 3 | Talk Session 6 | Talk Session 10 | |
| Poster Session | Talk Session 7 | Talk Session 11 | |
| Welcome Reception | Social “hour” |
Registration and all talks will be in Brown Hall W280.
Detailed agenda:
Monday, June 22
| 8:30 AM | Registration and coffee/tea/light snacks | |
| 9:00 AM | Eric Toberer: | Welcome talk |
| 9:05 AM | Xavier Roy: | Quantum complexity in a simple material |
| 9:35 AM | Julia Mundy: | Synthesis of atomically-precise superconducting nickelates |
| 10:05 AM | R. Ramesh: | Solving global scale problems with basic science |
| 10:35 AM | Coffee/tea/snacks | |
| 11:00 AM | James Rondinelli: | How Real Materials Make (or Break) Altermagnetism |
| 11:30 AM | Josh Goldberger: | Materials at the Intersection of the Topology and Magnetism |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Barry Bradlyn: | Topological superconductivity beyond symmetry indicators |
| 2:00 PM | Aditi Krishnapriyan: | Learning Physical Dynamics with Generative Machine Learning |
| 2:30 PM | Poster Session in CoorsTek Atrium | |
| 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM |
Reception and buffet dinner |
Tuesday, June 23
| 9:00 AM | Taylor Sparks: | Design Rules in the Loop: Text-conditioned Generation of New Crystals |
| 9:30 AM | Giovanni Bordiga: | Nonlinear mechanical metamaterial cloaks |
| 9:45 AM | Daniel Shoemaker: | Crystal growth for optical quantum information storage |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee/tea/snacks | |
| 10:45 AM | Craig Bridges: | AI-driven Materials Synthesis and Agentic Characterization at the ACL |
| 11:15 AM | Drew Novick: | Scaling electronic structure calculations with orbital-free DFT |
| 11:30 AM | Lilia Xie: | Molecular Design Rules for Low-Dimensional Hybrid Materials |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Tyrel McQueen: | Can LLMs and AI Transformers Accelerate Materials Synthesis and Discovery? |
| 2:00 PM | Joe Paddison: | Magnetic Excitations of Frustrated Metals |
| 2:30 PM | Coffee/tea/snacks | |
| 3:00 PM | Marcel Langer: | Sparse automatic differentiation enables the efficient prediction of experimental observables |
| 3:15 PM | Joseph Falson: | Epitaxy and physics of ultra-thin metals |
| 4:00 PM | Social “hour” |
Wednesday, June 24
| 9:00 AM | Daniel Schwalbe-Koda: | Design Rules in the Loop: Text-conditioned Generation of New Crystals |
| 9:30 AM | Mingda Li: | AI-driven Design of Synthesizable Materials with Exceptional Properties |
| 10:00 AM | Omri Lesser: | Learning to predict superconductivity |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee/tea/snacks | |
| 10:45 AM | Johnpierre Paglione: | Tuning chemistry to study exotic electronic states |
| 11:15 AM | Fernando Fajardo-Rojas: | Physics-based representations for data-efficient ML in MOF screening |
| 11:30 AM | Xin Gui: | Geometrical Frustration in Quantum Materials: To Order or Not To Order? |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Alex Georgescu: | Quantum Materials From Novel Building Blocks |
| 2:00 PM | Diana Qiu: | A General Machine Learning Framework for Many-body Interactions in Real Materials |
| 2:30 PM | Coffee/tea/snacks | |
| 3:00 PM | Mingwei Li: | From Data to Understanding: Scalable Tools for Scientific Insights |
| 3:15 PM | Milena Jovanovic: | Photochemical Reactions as a Path Toward New Quantum Materials |
| 3:45 PM | End for the day |
Thursday, June 25
| 9:00 AM | Pengcheng Dai: | Uniaxial Strain effect in altermagnets |
| 9:30 AM | Seung Gyo Jeong: | Strain-Driven Altermagnetic Polar Metallic Phase in Epitaxial RuO2 Films |
| 9:45 AM | Venkat Kapil: | Assessment of foundation machine learning interatomic potentials in finite thermodynamic ensembles |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee/tea/snacks | |
| 10:30 AM | Jason Kawasaki: | Strain Induced Magnetism and Superconductivity in Single Crystalline Heusler Membranes |
| 11:15 AM | Matthew Brahlek: | Accelerating Epitaxial Quantum Materials Discovery |
| 11:30 AM | Mina Yoon: | Physics-Guided AI for Accelerated Discovery of Quantum Materials |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Conference end |