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Jul 2026
NSF awards our group a $20M cooperative agreement to build AURORA, a Programmable Cloud Laboratory Node for quantum materials. Dr. Sparks is PI and Node Director!
Jul 2026
Dr. Sparks presents "From Generating Materials to Designing Them: Reinforcement Learning for Scientific Foundation Models" at the Frontiers of GenAI in Science meeting.
Jul 2026
Dr. Sparks teaches the Machine Learning Fundamentals module at the CMS3 Summer School at Texas A&M for the fourth time.
Jul 2026
Dr. Sparks delivers an invited plenary talk and serves on an AI panel at the ASNT Research Symposium 2026 in Salt Lake City.
Jul 2026
Dr. Sparks presents "The LLM Revolution in Materials Science: From Data Extraction to Crystal Design" for the Broadening Carbon Ring 2026 Summer School.
Jul 2026
Dr. Sparks travels to Chicago for the SFSA Research Review to present an update on the group's sponsored RAG research for the Steel Casting Wiki.
Outside links
MSE Department
Materials Characterization Lab
University of Utah
links
Materialism Podcast. Check it out on
Spotify
,
iTunes
,
Stitcher
, and
Google Play
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YouTube playlist for recorded lectures of current semester of Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering
YouTube playlist for worked example solutions for common Materials Science & Engineering problems
ICSD web
American Ceramic Society
Preparing figures for publications and presentations (via Ram Seshadri):
PDF
Utah Characterization Lab
Electronegativity
International Tables, Volume A
Fullprof
GSAS
Ram Seshadri Ionic Size Periodic Table
Binary Phase Diagrams
Harvard Annals of Improbable Research
Dr. Sparks start-up companies: Electrochrome LLC &
Utah Materials Research LLC
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