Check out this thread to capture the key highlights in Energy Storage from the winner of ACSEnergyLett lectureship award winner Congrats Venkat Viswanathan

After a 3 week long SciFM Summer School, we wrap up with hackathon teams presenting progress they made on four thrusts: (i) Materials, (ii) Biology, (iii) Computational Science Agents, (iv) PDEs! Incredible summer school with 30 enlightening talks and 25 hackathon participants.

This is nonintuitive but flying can (is frequently) more efficient than driving. Venkat Viswanathan and I analyzed this for urban aircraft in our PNASNews report on #evtols pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Excited to welcome Sanjay Subrahmanyan to Ann Arbor and looking forward to the performance on Sept 14.

PhD#19 in the books! Congrats to Keith Phuthi on defending his University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering PhD thesis! Great collaborations with Ekin Dogus Cubuk Simon Batzner (Google DeepMind) Boris Kozinsky (Harvard SEAS) etc, and thanks to Google for funding the work.

PhD#20 in the books! Congrats to Mohammad Babar for successfully defending his University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering PhD thesis on Atomic and geometric modifications for high-performance Li-ion electrodes. Excellent collaborations with Kwabena Bediako, Kaxiras, Arun Bansil, etc. and support from Office of Naval Research (ONR)!

Thanks to ACSEnergyLett ACS Division of Energy & Fuels division for hosting the Energy Lectureship Award Symposium. So many gems in ACSEnergyLett with a great group of collaborators!

PhD#21 in the books. Congrats to Archie Yao on textbook defining work on physics-consistent modeling of all-solid-state batteries. University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering

PhD#22 in the books! Congrats to Alex Wadell - a straight line from taking Steven Strogatz course on non-linear dynamics to scaling laws for infrastructure and foundation models. He presented on MIST-1.8B, a magnum-opus collaboration with Bharath Ramsundar Arvind Ramanathan (he/him) and others.