Cambridge Materials Courses

Automated High-Throughput Lab for Materials in Extreme Environments

Discover how the AIMD-L at Johns Hopkins University enables high-throughput automated characterization of materials in extreme environments, featuring unique capabilities like laser microflyer impact studies and advanced x-ray diffraction systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding the Role of Chemistry in the Monomer-to-Monomer Recycling of Circular Polymers

Explore how computational tools provide insights into monomer-to-monomer recycling of polymers, focusing on poly(dikeotenamine)s (PDKs) that achieve over 90% monomer yield through acid-catalyzed hydrolysis mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Anisotropic Machine Learning Representations for Coarse-Graining

Explore AniSOAP, an anisotropic generalization of SOAP for machine learning in atomistic simulations, enabling better representation of macromolecular systems and orientation-dependent interactions between atom groups.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Merging Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning for More Accurate Computational Models

Explore how machine learning and quantum chemistry combine to create faster, more accurate molecular property predictions, with applications in pKa prediction and solar cell performance.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning Conical Intersections for Excited States Using Smooth Invariants

Discover how machine learning models can accurately reconstruct conical intersections by learning globally smooth invariant quantities, crucial for understanding molecular dynamics upon light excitation.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI, Microscopes, and the Quest for Better Materials

Explore how machine learning and AI-driven microscopy techniques are revolutionizing materials science by uncovering structure-property relationships, extracting physical laws, and enabling autonomous research workflows for accelerated materials discover…

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modelling Solution Chemistry for Transition Metal Complexes

Explore advanced techniques for modeling chemical reactions in solution, focusing on explicit solvent interactions and their impact on transition metal complexes and catalysis.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Designing the Morphology of Separated Phases in Multicomponent Liquid Mixtures

Explore algorithms for constructing phase diagrams and predicting morphology in multicomponent liquid mixtures, with applications from industry to cellular biology.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Solvated Electron: First Principles and Machine Learning Approaches

Explore advanced modeling of solvated electrons using machine learning, overcoming challenges in accuracy and efficiency to study structure, dynamics, and properties across temperatures.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Quantum Computing Algorithm to Speed Up Metropolis Sampling

Explore a quantum algorithm for accelerating Metropolis sampling in multidimensional systems, leveraging wave function collapses for non-local configuration space moves.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deltoidal Icositetrahedron Faceting on Alpha-Iron Crystals from the Moon's Surface

Explore crystallographic analysis of lunar iron crystals, examining unique deltoidal icositetrahedron faceting and its implications for understanding crystal growth in the lunar environment.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Information Scrambling: A Path-Integral Perspective

Explore quantum information scrambling, its quantification through Lyapunov exponents, and the role of path integrals in understanding universal bounds on chaos in thermal quantum systems.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fully Quantum (Bio)Molecular Simulations - Dream or Reality?

Explore quantum-mechanical and machine learning advances in molecular simulations, their potential impact, and challenges in achieving fully quantum dynamics of complex biomolecular systems.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ab Initio Charge Transport of Ionic Fluids: Invariance Principles and Topological Invariants

Explore ab initio charge transport in ionic fluids, combining invariance principles and topological quantization to redefine oxidation numbers and electrical conductivity calculations.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Weak Convergence Viewpoint on Invertible Coarse-Graining

Explore weak convergence in invertible coarse-graining, combining force-matching with neural networks to recover fine-grained free energy surfaces in biomolecular systems.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video