Community and Meetings

ACE Slack

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ACE Seminars

Virtual seminars (zoom) around ACE and related methods are organised roughly every two weeks:

  • Wednesdays, typically every two weeks

  • 15:30 UTC, currently 8:30 PDT, 9:30 MDT, 10:30 CDT, 11:30 EDT, 16:30 BST, 17:30 CEST

  • https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/95754411387?pwd=dkhWVjZwRjQxL09iRTJLa0xKdGF2Zz09

Upcoming seminars

29 June: Sergey Pozdnyakov: Degenerate structures in atomistic ML, and how they can affect the performance of your model, Jigyasa Nigam: Bridging atom centered representations and message passing ML schemes

13 July: Max Veit: Dielectric properties of BaTiO3 from an integrated machine-learning model, Lorenzo Gigli: Structural phases and thermodynamics of BaTiO3 from an integrated machine learning model

Past seminars 2022

15 June: Martin Uhrin: Through the eyes of a descriptor: Constructing complete, invertible descriptions of atomic environments (edited)

1 June: Gus Hart: Some best practices for building MLIPs: Kpoints and active learning strategies

18 May: Ilyes Batatia, Dávid Péter Kovács, Gregor N. C. Simm: A unified understanding of equivariant interatomic potentials

4 May: Matteo Rinaldi: Magnetic ACE: parameterization for iron

20 April: Boris Kozinsky:

6 April: Antoine Kraych: ACE for defects in tungsten

23 March: Minaam Qamar: ACE for carbon: parameterization and application

9 March: Claudio Zeni: On the extrapolation of high-dimensional machine learning potentials

23 February: Aidan Thompson (SANDIA): SNAP and beyond: Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials in LAMMPS; and James Goff (SANDIA): Training ACE Potentials using LAMMPS and FitSNAP

9 February: Anton Bochkarev (Ruhr-University Bochum): Non-linear Atomic Cluster Expansion and its Parameterization

26 January: Cas van der Oord (University of Cambridge): Determining the TiAl phase diagram using Nested Sampling and ACE HAL (Hyperactive Learning)

18 January: Youssef Marzouk (MIT): Some (early) thoughts on uncertainty quantification and Bayesian inference in molecular modeling

Past Seminars 2021

8 December: Christoph Ortner (University of British Columbia): A General and Flexible Implementation of the Atomic Cluster Expansion

10 November: Ralf Drautz (Ruhr-University Bochum): Atomic cluster expansion, basics and applications

27 October: Michele Ceriotti (EPFL): Prediction of electronic-structure-related properties

13 October: Risi Kondor (The University of Chicago): A birds-eye view on equivariant neural networks