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New AI-MI–supported publication in Macromolecules: Reversible, Chemically Triggered Water Retention in Disulfide Cross-Linked SCAMPs
A new paper co-authored by AI-MI faculty member Adam Braunschweig and AI-MI PhD student Keidy Matos (City University of New York), “Reversible, Chemically Triggered Water Retention in Disulfide Cross-Linked Synthetic Conserved Anterior Mucus…
AI-MI Director Eun-Ah Kim delivers the Physics & Astronomy Colloquium at Rice University
AI-MI Director Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University) delivered the Rice University Physics & Astronomy Department Colloquium on October 14, 2026, speaking on “Representation Learning for Hard Data Problems in Quantum Matter.”
AI-MI’s Yoav Artzi gives the Siebel School colloquium at UIUC, home of MMLI
AI-MI senior personnel Yoav Artzi (Cornell University) delivers the invited colloquium “Sparks of New Pre-Training” in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science speaker series at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Monday, October…
New AI-MI–supported preprint: Pairing from repulsive interactions in twisted WSe₂ from functional renormalization
A new preprint co-authored by AI-MI senior personnel Kin Fai Mak (Cornell University) and B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University), “Pairing from repulsive interactions in twisted WSe₂ from functional renormalization,” was posted to arXiv on…
New AI-MI–supported preprint: Copy-Paste Language Models
A new preprint by Nathan Godey and AI-MI senior personnel Yoav Artzi (Cornell University), “Copy-Paste Language Models,” was posted to arXiv on October 13, 2026 (arXiv:2610.19247). The work acknowledges support from the NSF AI Materials Institute…
Weinberger-group paper selected as an oral at the COLM 2026 workshop on Learning from Situated and Embodied Interaction
“On the Promise and Limits of Training LLM Search Agents in Fictional Worlds” — by Anmol Kabra, Swathi Saravana Selvam, AI-MI PhD students Albert Gong , Chao Wan and Christian Belardi , Dongyoung Go, Katie Z. Luo and AI-MI Associate Director Kilian…
AI-MI Co-PI Leslie Schoop elected a 2026 Fellow of the American Physical Society
AI-MI co-PI Leslie Schoop , Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, has been named a 2026 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), nominated through the APS Topical Group on Magnetism. She is recognized for “pioneering the application…
AI-MI’s Keith Brown speaks at the IROS 2026 workshop on self-driving laboratories
AI-MI senior personnel Keith Brown (Boston University) was an invited speaker at the IROS 2026 workshop “Robotics and Automation in Self-Driving Laboratories” (Pittsburgh, September 27, 2026), presenting “Low-Cost and Modular Hardware for Automated…
New AI-MI–supported preprint: Incoherent Spectral Weight Emerging from a Van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal
A new preprint co-authored by AI-MI senior personnel B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University), “Incoherent Spectral Weight Emerging from a Van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal,” was posted to arXiv on October 6, 2026 (arXiv:2610.08356). Authors:…