Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute

New preprint from AI-MI's Chao Wan and Kilian Weinberger (Cornell) with Paul Jünger, Beixi Du, Bodong Liu and Navaneetha Krishnan: "Retriever-Free Retrieval: Navigating Documents with Decision Models," posted Oct 26 on arXiv. Congratulations to the team! arxiv.org/abs/2610.35868

AI-MI Seminar Series: Sharon Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on "Reliability Along the Way: Progress and Failure Signals in AI Agents." Thu Nov 12, 10 am ET, streaming live on YouTube. Details: aimi.cornell.edu/event/ai-mi…

AI-MI at the inaugural Cornell Materials Hub symposium (Oct 22): Director Eun-Ah Kim presented the AI-MI center overview and Peter Frazier spoke on AI-MI industry engagement, alongside CHESS, CCMR, CNF, SUPREME and KIC. materialscampus.cornell.edu/…

New AI-MI–supported preprint: "Pairing from repulsive interactions in twisted WSe₂ from functional renormalization," co-authored by AI-MI's Kin Fai Mak (Cornell) and B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton). Posted Oct 12. Congratulations to the team! arxiv.org/abs/2610.17222

New AI-MI–supported preprint: "Copy-Paste Language Models" by Nathan Godey and AI-MI's Yoav Artzi (Cornell). Posted Oct 13. Congratulations to the team! arxiv.org/abs/2610.19247

AI-MI Seminar Series: Adrian Del Maestro (Professor & Head of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; IRG1 Director, NSF MRSEC CAMM) on "Learning Non-Covalent Interactions at the Wavenumber Scale." Thu Oct 29, 10–11 am ET. aimi.cornell.edu/events/

Congratulations to AI-MI co-PI Leslie Schoop (Princeton), named a 2026 Fellow of the American Physical Society for pioneering the use of chemical bonding principles to predict and synthesize novel quantum matter! chemistry.princeton.edu/news…

New AI-MI–supported preprint: "PhantomEnvironments: Training LLM Agents in Fictional Worlds" by AI-MI Associate Director Kilian Weinberger, Albert Gong, Chao Wan, Christian Belardi and colleagues (Cornell). Congratulations to the team! arxiv.org/abs/2609.40221

New AI-MI–supported preprint: "Incoherent Spectral Weight Emerging from a Van Hove Singularity in a Kagome Metal," co-authored by AI-MI's B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton). Posted Oct 6. Congratulations to the team! arxiv.org/abs/2610.08356

AI-MI Director Eun-Ah Kim spoke on "Interpretable and structure-aware AI for superconductivity discovery" at @KITP_UCSB's Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier conference on Sep 29, and chaired a session. online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/…

Next in the AI-MI Seminar Series: Daniel Tabor (Texas A&M University) on "Machine Learning Methods for Molecular Design and Reaction Discovery." Thu Oct 15, 10 am ET, streaming live on YouTube. Details: aimi.cornell.edu/event/ai-mi…

Next in the AI-MI Seminar Series: Heng Ji (UIUC) on "Agentic Modular Chemical Language Model (mCLM-A) for Molecule Discovery." Thursday, October 1, 10 am ET. aimi.cornell.edu/event/ai-mi…

Registration is now open! Cornell University is hosting the 2026 CAMPUS Symposium on Oct 22, 2026 — a full-day showcase of advanced materials research, collaboration pathways, facility tours, and emerging technologies. Register: materialscampus.cornell.edu/… #2026CAMPUSSymposium

Next in the AI-MI Seminar Series: Tomás Arias (Cornell) on "Chemistry-Accelerated Machine-Enabled Learning (CAMEL)." Thursday, September 17, 10 am ET. aimi.cornell.edu/event/ai-mi…

Next in the AI-MI Seminar Series: Nima LeClerc (Principal Physicist, Digital Twins for Quantum Hardware, Diraq) on "Digital Twins, AI-aided control and the Path to Scalable Quantum Hardware." Thu Sept 3, 10:00 am ET — live on YouTube. youtube.com/@AIMaterialsInst…

That's a wrap on AI-MI SURP 2026. Fourteen undergraduates spent summer at Cornell on AI for materials — from ML analysis of X-ray scattering at CHESS to grey-box Bayesian optimization on a self-driving lab — and presented their final projects this Friday. aimi.cornell.edu/surp/