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Pierpaolo Morgante (He/His)
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#MachineLearning editor at @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social (@ioppublishing.bsky.social). Theoretical chemist. LEGO fan. #DFT #compchem #chemistry #DogsofCompChem #Quantum
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📍Buffalo, NY
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The first (of many, I hope!) challenges articles is finally out! Really excited to be able to provide this service to the #machinelearning community. If you're organizing #hackathons, #MLcompetitions, or similar, please reach out! @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social #MachineLearningSeries
🚨Challenges article alert!🚨

In this paper, Zhang, Wang and coworkers describe the #OpenLAMChallenges, competitions designed to benchmark #machinelearning methods and accelerate ML-driven discovery. Read the #MachineLearningScienceandTechnology article here: bit.ly/3TTlZtP 1/2
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Great to see recent research published in CQG 'Detecting milli-Hz gravitational waves with optical resonators' featured in this Physics World article: physicsworld.com/a/phase-shif...
Phase shift in optical cavities could detect low-frequency gravitational waves – Physics World
Global network could pinpoint astronomical sources
physicsworld.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Last month JPhys Complexity published the first article in our 'Focus on Complex Quantum Networks' - 'Advantage of deterministic entanglement transmission on Gaussian-state quantum networks' by Yaqi Zhao, Kan He, Jinchuan Hou and Xiangyi Meng
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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looking for a 5y postdoc to work with Stephen Dale (scholar.google.com/citations?us...) and myself within a collaboration between the Acceleration consortium at UofT and the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials at NUS.
scholar.google.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#compchem #ChemSky 🧪⚗️⚛️
🆕🔖Check out this #openaccess article published in #MachineLearningEngineering 👉 Predicting electronic properties of π-conjugated organic polymers using machine learning for optoelectronic applications.

Download and cite today: https://ow.ly/35i550XtWue
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🔖Read the recently published #perspective article on deploying generative #AI in #hospitals and #healthcare 👇

Read, download, and cite here: https://ow.ly/TKVy50XtVXG
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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WooHoo! @chemrxiv.org has just crossed 10,000 papers (preprints) in the Theoretical and computational chemistry section! #compchem This is the largest section so far...

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Good article in CE News about quantum computing for chemistry !

5 milestones from our group:

First QC for QC paper:
lnkd.in/eZ94Zntn
VQE
lnkd.in/eDWNewrN
First experiment
lnkd.in/eehsCmVs
First scalable experiment
lnkd.in/eRjacRx7
GQE
lnkd.in/e9s7y4HS
#chemsky #compchemsky #quantumcomputing
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Come join me in Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdchemistry.bsky.social! Help us understand the messiness of cross-talk in metal-ion batteries!

#BattChat #NewPI #sustainability #electrochem
Please share!

The CoReACTER is hiring 1 PhD student (4 years, start date Sept. 1, 2026) to work on multi-scale modeling of reactivity in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.

Apply by Jan. 16, 2026

#PhDjobs #PhDSky #CompChem #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #BlackInSTEM #diversityinSTEM #LatinxSTEM #disabledinSTEM
www.ucd.ie
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It always makes my day when #MachineLearningScienceandTechnology is featured in the #JournalClub (@iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social). Thanks for sharing, @grynova.bsky.social 👏🏻😊
Latest #JournalClub by Liza Surzhikova visiting us from TU Braunschweig is on #activelearning and its uses in #chemistry www.grynova-ccc.org/journal-club...
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I wonder if I should post more routinely that we do have monthly video meetings for anyone in the @fhi-aims.bsky.social community.

The next one is tomorrow, Nov 12, 8:30 am EST. Time and coordinates are routinely posted in the Slack workspace.

#compchemsky (in case any FHI-aims users are there)
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Andrei Mihia @mareacaspica.bsky.social wrote a nice article on our AI for Science panel at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/is-ai-be...
Is AI Becoming a Scientific Collaborator, More Than a Tool?
We could be on the verge of a golden age for scientific discovery. Read more
scilogs.spektrum.de
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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VAEs for molecular generation m: a novel take: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.02769
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🚨 Job Alert

We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics.

Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word!

Deadline: Nov 30th

inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448
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lnkd.in
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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New paper, with @rkhashmani.me @marielpettee.bsky.social @garrettmerz.bsky.social Hellen Qu. We introduce a framework for generating realistic, highly multimodal datasets with explicitly calculable mutual information. This is helpful for studying self-supervised learning
arxiv.org/abs/2510.21686
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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In last week’s #JournalClub, Stiv Llenga discusses the power of #xAI in #chemistry, feat. Müller, Doyle, @pschwllr.bsky.social @andrew.diffuse.one , Ruffin, and others www.grynova-ccc.org/journal-club...
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Saddened to hear of the passing of Prof. Axel Becke. What he wrote in this article (pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti..., @aip-publishing.bsky.social) is one of the reasons why I decided to pursue a doctorate in #compchem. Our community lost one of its giants
Perspective: Fifty years of density-functional theory in chemical physics
Since its formal inception in 1964–1965, Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (KS-DFT) has become the most popular electronic structure method in computational p
pubs.aip.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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CQG continues to publish new articles in our 'Gravitational Wave Physics and Astrophysics Ten Years After GW150914
' collection - here's 'Gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae with no electromagnetic counterparts
' by Jade Powell and Bernhard Müller

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Classical and Quantum Gravity @ioppublishing.bsky.social is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first Gravitational Wave detection with a focus issue guest edited by Katerina Chatziioannou and Peter Shawhan: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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🔥We're excited to announce a major milestone for the machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) ecosystem: TorchSim is moving to community ownership and governance through a partnership with Radical AI and the open-source community! TorchSim is an atomistic simulation engine built for the AI era.
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Recently published article in #MachineLearningEngineering
"Exploring model #generalizability from a novel perspective"
👉Read, download and cite here: ow.ly/wq2z50X9ziZ
From Sunyang Wang, Baodi Yu and Fanyong Meng, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
October 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Today’s #JournalClub from Gregor discusses accurate and affordable composite #DFT (3c) methods for molecules and materials from @grimmelab.bsky.social #compchem www.grynova-ccc.org/journal-club...
October 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks
cen.acs.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Recently published in #MachineLearningEarth, enhancing seismic hazard assessment, using deep generative models

📑Read the research here: ow.ly/wrlk50X5ssw
From Ravi Kanth Sriwastav et al (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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📢Several PhD and Postdoc positions in my group (focusing on AI for Scientific Discovery in Physics) at @unituebingen.bsky.social

If you are excited about using AI to design new ways for observing the universe, please apply here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2...
October 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Woohoo!! Delighted to see this on @iopp-quantum.bsky.social! Thank you so much, @thematterlab.bsky.social, for publishing with us 🥳 #QuantumScienceandTechnology
Excited to share our new article: “Quantum algorithm for vibronic dynamics: case study on singlet fission solar cell design”, now published in Quantum Science and Technology!

📜 Paper: doi.org/10.1088/2058...
📝 Blog post overview: pennylane.ai/blog/2025/02...

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