Materials and Megabytes

Materials and Megabytes


Latest Episodes

Paper Interview - Learning from Failure: Predicting Electronic Structure Calculation Outcomes with Machine Learning Models
January 13, 2020

We discuss the paper Learning from Failure: Predicting Electronic Structure Calculation Outcomes with Machine Learning Models with the author Prof. Heather J. Kulik.Papers discussed in this episode:(Main discussion) Duan, C.; Janet, J. P.; Liu, F.; Nandy,

Paper interview - Screening billions of candidates for solid lithium-ion conductors: A transfer learning approach for small data
September 14, 2019

We discuss the paper Screening billions of candidates for solid lithium-ion conductors: A transfer learning approach for small data with the authors Dr. Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Dr. Austin D. Sendek.Papers discussed in the episode:Cubuk, E. D.; Sendek, A. D.;

Turab Lookman (Season 2, Ep.4)
April 09, 2019

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Turab Lookman from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The interview took place at the 2018 MRS Fall meeting.Relevant papers:Gubernatis, J. E.; Lookman, T., Machine Learning in Materials Design and Discovery: Examples from the

Patrick Riley (Season 2, Ep. 3)
February 15, 2019

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Patrick Riley from Google Accelerated Science.Some relevant papers and links:Riley, P., Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets. The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog, www.unofficialgoogledatascience.co

O. Anatole von Lilienfeld (Season 2, Ep. 2)
January 25, 2019

Our guest for this episode is Prof. Dr. O. Anatole von Lilienfeld from the University of Basel.Some relevant papers:Huang, B., and von Lilienfeld, O. A., The ‘DNA’ of Chemistry: Scalable Quantum Machine Learning with ‘Amons.’ arXiv:1707.04146, (2017)Ramak

Gábor Csányi (Season 2, Ep. 1)
January 25, 2019

Our guest on this episode is Professor Gábor Csányi from the University of Cambridge.Some relevant papers:Bartok, A. P., Payne, M. C., Kondor, R., and Csanyi, G., Gaussianapproximation potentials: the accuracy of quantum mechanics, without the electrons.

Kieron Burke (Season 1, Ep. 1)
July 08, 2018

Our guest on this episode is Professor Kieron Burke from the University of California, Irvine.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk (Season 1, Ep. 2)
July 08, 2018

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Ekin Doğuş Çubuk from Google Brain.

Evan J. Reed (Season 1, Ep. 3)
July 08, 2018

Our guest on this episode is Professor Evan J. Reed from Stanford University.

Introduction (Season 1, Ep. 0)
June 30, 2018

Start here for a brief introduction to this podcast!