Coarse-grained #polymer dynamics via Slip-Springs update! Is there a 1-to-1 correspondence between #entanglements and Slip-Springs? NO! It depends on the parameters! So having 1-to-1 is luck if not engineered. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp…

Now in MSDE journal— a UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering de Pablo + 3M MI Group collab on in silico active learning for small molecule properties🤖🎯🗃 Congrats Ludwig Schneider & coworkers @phil_rauscher KJ Schmidt Ben Blaiszik Ian Foster Juan de Pablo Globus MaterialsDataFacility pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

In honor of Doros Theodorou researchers looked at Slip-Springs: Tuning the parameters of SLSP models allows for an accurate representation of single-chain & collective polymer dynamics with highly coarse-grained computer simulation models. Ludwig Schneider go.acs.org/2ep

Thank you UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering for the cookies. Good to feel appreciated. #postdocappreciationweek

The world of Statistical Physics has lost a giant: Kurt Binder has passed away this Tuesday. He was not only an outstanding scientist but also a wonderful human, full of heart and humor, who touched the lives of so many of us. He will be dearly missed. Rest in Peace!

Polymer informatics gets me excited lately! Partly inspired by the #CRIPT project. Just finished the grammar and implementation of a BigSMILES extension, that generates full molecules. Can’t wait to put it to work for automated simulations and ML encoders.

Abhinendra Singh, assistant professor of CWRU Macromolecular Science & Engineering, published the cover feature for Physical Review Letters in partnership with the Jamali Group at Northeastern U.. The article uses network theory approaches to study the flow behavior of dense suspensions. bit.ly/3h5UjC4

MIT just emailed postdocs announcing raising the postdoc minimum to $65k starting Jan 2023. It’s ~$10k more than the previous minimum. With cost of living & inflation the extra will help. Thank you for listening to us! And thank you to those who advocated for us!

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The Waymo in downtown Phoenix are pretty cool. You need to get used to it. But it is cool.

Please institutions posting TT positions: Make sure that we can also give the email of assistants for our references. And post deadlines for the letters of recommendation. That would reduce ours nightmares that the letters are not send in in time. Thank you! Academic Chatter™

Excited to give a talk today at #AIChe22 in the *Machine Learning for Soft Materials I* session (at 13:05 Phoenix Time). I'll be presenting my recent work with Juan de Pablo on electronic predictions at CG resolutions for radical-containing polymers ! arxiv.org/abs/2209.02072