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AI-MI Faculty Emilia Morosan Named Founding Director of Rice–Max Planck Quantum Materials Partnership
AI-MI senior personnel Emilia Morosan, Trustee Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University and director of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials, has been named founding director of Q-RaMP — a new joint program between Rice University and the Max Planck...
AI-MI Community Well-Represented at ICML 2026 in Seoul
AI-MI was well-represented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026, Seoul, July 11–19). Eun-Ah Kim, AI-MI Director, co-organized the “AI for Physics” workshop and moderated its opening panel, “AI4Physics and the Current AI Revolution.” John...
AI-MI Research Identifies Anisotropy Key to Magnon-Mediated Superconductivity in 2D Ferromagnets
An AI-MI–supported theoretical study shows that a small easy-plane magnetic anisotropy is the key ingredient enabling magnon-mediated superconductivity in 2D itinerant ferromagnets. Vladimir Calvera, Heqiu Li, Yijie Wang, B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton), and Andrey V....
AI-MI Researchers Release a Graphlet-Histogram Database of 149,082 Inorganic Crystals
AI-MI researchers have introduced Graphlet-MP, a database that encodes inorganic crystal structures as graphlet histograms — a data-efficient, interpretable, machine-learning-ready representation aimed at accelerating materials discovery. Covering 149,082 inorganic...
AI-MI Follow-Up Discovers New Superconductors in the PtPb₃Bi Structure Type
A follow-up from AI-MI’s superconductivity effort reports a new family of superconductors sharing the PtPb₃Bi structure type — extending the AI-prediction-driven discovery that produced PtPb₃Bi itself, featured as the June AI-MI research highlight. The team...
Emilia Morosan Organizes International Quantum Materials Synthesis Workshop in Paris
AI-MI faculty member Emilia Morosan — Director of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials and Trustee Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University — organized and keynoted the 2026 RCQM–KAST InterAcademy Global Workshop on Quantum Materials Synthesis, held June...
Keith Brown to Lead Boston University’s Materials Science & Engineering Division
AI-MI faculty member Keith Brown has been named Head of the Division of Materials Science & Engineering at Boston University, effective July 1, 2026. An associate professor of mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, and physics, Brown is a...
Schlom elected to National Academy of Sciences
Darrell Schlom, materials scientist and AI-MI member, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — among the highest honors in U.S. science.
AI-MI study tests large language models as “world models” for high-Tc superconductivity
The first study out of the AI Materials Institute, led by Director Eun-Ah Kim, tests how well large language models grasp the scientific literature.