It is hard to think of a material that has impacted human history so much (microscope, telescope, light bulbs..) and continues to do so (touchscreen display, fiber optics..)—2022 might be the International Year of Glass. A well-deserved recognition! iyog2022.org

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Machines are making beautiful things without even trying to. We ask them to make something that optimizes for our requirements, they give us something back that looks surprisingly like nature. What is going on? A Thread

Open source JAX-DFT: differentiable density functional theory (DFT) code that can run on GPU in your browser! github.com/google-researc…

Check out our new paper from my lab published in JNCS! Decoupling of indentation modulus and hardness in silicate glasses: Ev... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

If you're interested in the intersection of physics, machine learning, and JAX you might like JAX, M.D., a set of tools to do molecular physics simulations on top of JAX. Spotlight #NeurIPS2020 Wednesday: neurips.cc/virtual/2020/p… Github: github.com/google/jax-md With Ekin Dogus Cubuk.

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Using machine learning to identify the structural origin of creep in disordered materials—following the cool softness approach introduced by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Sam Schoenholz authors.elsevier.com/a/1cs0O_UwYsE%…

The UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, led by Professor Gaurav Sant, has become the first university team to win the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition grand prize. Read the full article: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-…

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Researchers from UCLA led by Mathieu Bauchy, along with other organizations, have used atomic-level computer simulations to suggest a path toward developing stronger, more ductile glass. Read the article: samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-engineers…

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Check out our paper on experimentally quantifying ring statistics in silicate glasses—which is typically hidden from experiments. Great collaboration with Corning Incorporated! advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/28/e…

We are pleased to have Sam Schoenholz Sam Schoenholz from Google Brain as our next physicsmeetsml.org speaker. He'll talk about "JAX MD: A Framework for Differentiable Atomistic Physics". Please tune in on Wed. Sept. 8 at noon US Central time (11am UW-Madison Physics).

Congratulations to Professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng and his team of researchers, who have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design architected materials that are fine-tuned with dynamic behaviors! samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-researche…

Glass is an amazing material that we keep touching all day long as we interact with our smartphones. How can we discover the next groundbreaking glass? How to design an unbreakable transparent glass? The answer is machine learning youtube.com/watch?v=bMTegV…

Congratulations to many good friends and colleagues receiving awards this afternoon at #icg2022! @EmmaBarney1 Mathieu Bauchy Delia Brauer N M Anoop Krishnan

Summer Reading! UCLA TDG IM Summer 2022 edition is out. Updates on TDG staff, board and intros to the latest #startup centered around @ucla tech CleopatraRx @concreteai #purposebio ucla.in/3zl7oxZ

Congratulations to Wei for his work on balancing strength and toughness in bioactive hybrid materials! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… ACS Nano Nice collaboration with groups of Xing Bengang_ Research Group @ NTU_SG, Peter Kristensen, Mathieu Bauchy, Lars Jensen and Randy Youngman

The last paper from Mikkel Bødker PhD thesis has just been published npj Journals Computational Materials. We inform a machine learning model with info from statistical mechanics to predict the short-range structure of glasses from their composition. DK Frie Forsk.fond rdcu.be/cVfA9