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Taylor Sparks @[email protected]

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I'm a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the Un


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Episode 106: Photoluminescent Materials
05:57
CIF Analyzers: Crystallography Just Got a Data Upgrade
34:32
Episode 105: Cooling Paints
05:10
Hacking Your Lab: Turn Old Equipment into Smart Data Loggers
01:04:24
Episode 104: The Winding Path to Materials Discovery
46:44
Episode 103: MatterGen
03:56
Comparing failure modes in freeze cast microstructures
42:03
Undercooled podcast interview on location at the TMS 2025 meeting. x-Post from @smyUmich
07:06
Spring skiing Ogden chutes
06:08
Computational approach for identifying new binders in WC hardmetals
19:54
Supercharging Materials Discovery feat. @usasciencefest
36:30
Episode 102: Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation
05:00
Streamlining Multi-Scale Materials Modeling with MUSICode
23:49
Materials Science Hot Takes: Ep3 Dmitry Bedrov
49:35
Episode 101: All About Biomatter
04:16
Hyperparameter tuning of physics-informed neural nets makes a difference
33:55
Episode 100: Materials for Bikes
03:04
Using phase-field simulations to train deep learning models to identify dendritic microstructures
53:35
Episode 99: Bulk Metallic Glasses
52:13
Episode 98: Accelerating Catalyst Research with Meta
05:19
Ski Wax Secrets: What Makes You Glide Faster? 🏔️🔬
39:34
Episode 97: Titanium
47:06
Episode 96: Spark Ablation with VSParticle
56:28
Episode 95: You Don't Know Anything About Steel
48:40
Episode 94: An Introduction to Quantum Materials
46:04
Episode 93: An Introduction to Pyrometallurgy
05:52
Mighty Mushrooms: Inspiring Advanced Metamaterials for Energy Dissipation
08:22
Use SciSpace + ChatGPT instead of Google Scholar for literature reviews
07:53
Using symmetry to construct Crystals: Building Zeolite Frameworks with VESTA
06:39
Can we use Gemini Pro to mine materials data from literature?
22:46
Grouping matter by symmetry: Point Groups, Space Groups, and Crystal Systems
32:01
Understanding Crystal Structures: Symmetry and Lattices Explained
39:34
Episode 92: The Quest for Pure Uranium
11:57
Honegumi tutorial #2. multiobjective polymer formulation
14:46
Making complex Bayesian Optimization simple with Honegumi
39:34
33. Large Language Models in Materials Science
26:18
32. Bayesian Optimization
20:29
31. Gaussian Processes
10:07
30a Coding a Naive Bayes classifier by hand
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30. Bayes Theorem and Naive bayes classifier
40:35
Episode 91: High Entropy Alloys
16:14
29. Diffusion Models
30:49
28. Image segmentation
31:50
Episode 90: The Big Dig Incident
55:07
Episode 89: Special Applications of Microscopy Technologies
36:37
Episode 88: Accelerating Materials Discovery with Microsoft
36:35
Episode 87: Stories of a Materials Salesman
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Lecture in Materials 9: Anil Virkar "Thermodynamic and kinetic considerations of fuel cell catalyst"
01:02:14
Lecture in Materials 8: Angie Richardson & Lindsay Fuoco "Piezoelectric ceramic processing"
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Lecture in Materials 7: Dan Belnap "HPHT diamond sintering and nanodiamond manufacturing"
07:15
Use GitHub Copilot Chat to interactively create documentation, add type hints, and make unit tests
08:37
Interactive sample transfer workflow with slack notifications
04:11
Human-in-the-loop Bayesian Optimization
46:41
Episode 86: PHAs and Biodegradable Plastic
45:10
Materialism Podcast Ep 85: Electron Backscatter Diffraction
16:26
Max Balandat (Meta Adaptive Experimentation) "Bayesian Optimization for Sustainable Concrete"
16:17
Martin Fitzner "Industrial view on Bayesian optimization A perfect match for the low/no-data regime"
13:21
Discovering materials twice as fast at a fraction of the cost through Bayesian optimization
01:07:59
Lecture in Materials 6: Ian Harvey "Rocket nozzle materials"
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Lecture in Materials 5. S. Elango Elangovan "Mission to Mars: One small step before a giant leap"