Highlights
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(2026) Mentoring Up Workshop
As part of the Wisconsin MRSEC’s Forward Fellows program, Education Directors Crone and Gillian-Daniel developed a workshop on Mentoring Up for the incoming graduate students. The workshop helps mentees define their goals…
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(2026) UW AMIC’s Shared Facilities Benchmarking Study for Sustainability
The Wisconsin MRSEC Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium (AMIC) facilitates industrial access to the MRSEC and UW Madison shared instrumentation facilities. The AMIC team has performed a comprehensive benchmarking study across peer institutions…
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(2026) Revealing Hidden Quantum States via Nonlinear Electrical Probes
Wisconsin MRSEC researchers in IRG 2 have discovered that the compound TaIrTe4, a transition metal dichalcogenide, when made only a few atomic layers thick and cooled to cryogenic temperatures, transitions into an…
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(2026) Physics-Aware Generative AI for Metallic Glasses
Wisconsin MRSEC IRG 1 developed a new generative AI model for metallic glasses, called GlassVAE. The model is based on ideas similar to ChatGPT, but adapted to describe the complex atomic structures…
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(2026) Efficient method for computing magnon-phonon coupling from first-principles
Wisconsin MRSEC IRG 2 researchers have developed an efficient, accurate first-principles computational method that predicts how magnons and atomic vibrations (phonons) couple inside magnetic materials — a calculation that previously required prohibitively…