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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!
Aug 2026
Four new research assistants join the group for Fall 2026: Radheesh Sharma Meda, Manish Sanjay Shinde, Dila Kandel, and Revanth Thoutam. Welcome!
Aug 2026
Dr. Sparks wins the 2026 Outstanding Research Award from the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering at the University of Utah!
Aug 2026
NSF awards $328,828 for "Motif-Based Deep Learning for Discovery and Chemical Insights into Disordered Phases," a collaboration with RPI.
Jul 2026
Dr. Sparks and co-authors win the IOM3 Pfeil Award for their paper on the thermoelectric properties of TaVO5 and GdTaO4!
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.
Outside links
MSE Department
Materials Characterization Lab
University of Utah
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Materialism Podcast. Check it out on
Spotify
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iTunes
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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):
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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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