20/05/2021 – ML4MC Summer School

We are pleased to announce that AI3SD have teamed up with the Directed Assembly Network to run a virtual summer school this summer (2021) on Machine Learning 4 Materials & Chemicals which encompass our overlapping Network interests of AI, Machine Learning, Artificial Photosynthesis, Biomimetic Materials, Crystal Design & Engineering, Materials, ...

16/02/2021 – AI3SD Summer Internship Call

We are pleased to announce our AI3SD Summer Internship Funding Call. Prospective Project Supervisors are invited to apply for AI3SD Summer Undergraduate Internships. These applications must be made by the academic institute proposing to host this internship, and must be relevant to the AI3SD Network. All AI3SD Interns will benefit ...

08/01/2021 – Network Publication!

We are delighted to share our perspectives publication with you, explaining the philosophical, scientific, and technical underpinnings of the Network and detailing its inception and the first year of activity. This paper has been published in the Patterns Journal. Our open access paper can be viewed and downloaded from here: ...

03/12/2020 – AI3SD featured in JISC Article

Michelle Pauli, who many of you will know from her coverage of our Network events, published a fasctinating article on The Challenges and Opportunities for Research in the Age of Automation: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/the-challenges-and-opportunities-for-research-in-the-age-of-automation-02-dec-2020. This article features comments from our Network+ Coordinator Dr Samantha Kanza, our Advisory Board Member Dr Louise Dennis, ...

15/10/2020 – AI3SD Extension Granted!

We have some excellent news for you all! Given the COVID-19 situation and the impact it has had on our ability to run Face to Face Meetings and continue with other Network Activities such as our funded projects, we applied to EPSRC for a 9 months no-costs extension. EPSRC approved ...

21/08/2020 – 6th Advisory Board Meeting

On Friday 21st August 2020 the Advisory Board met virtually to plan events going forward for 2020/2021 and to re-evaluate the events that we have been running virtually throughout the COVID-19 crisis. We discussed the guest lecture series and how well it’s been working. As this will finish in October, ...

22/05/2020 – 5th Advisory Board Meeting

On Friday 22nd May the Advisory Board met virtually to plan for how AI3SD was going to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. We quickly decided to create a set of virtual events for the summer (which have taken the form of the AI3SD Online Seminar Series). We planned to move ...

30/01/2020 – Announcing our successful Funding Applicants for AI3SD-FundingCall2

In our first funding call AI3SD-FundingCall2, 4 successful projects have now been selected for funding (pending contract negotiations): Project Title: Optimising Flatland: Inverse design of desalination membranesPrincipal Investigator: Dr J. Grant HillLead Institution: University of Sheffield. Project Partners: Imperial College London. Project Title: Interpretable crystal descriptions across length scales for ...

30/01/2020 – 4th Advisory Board Meeting

On Thursday 30th January we held our fourth Advisory Board Meeting. This was a very useful meeting, whereby we updated the Advisory board of the progress of the Network+ and sought their advice regarding the funding applications for the second funding call. The Advisory Board and Network Team discussed the ...

23/09/2019 – 3rd AI3SD Advisory Board Meeting

On Monday 23rd September we held our third Advisory Board Meeting. This was a very useful meeting, whereby we updated the Advisory board of the progress of the Network+ including the meetings we have held in 2019, and with their help consolidated our plans for 2020. The Network+ now has ...