The FAIRmat seminar talks held by Giovanni Vignale on "Geometric Density Functional Theory" on May 14, 2024, and Janosh Riebesell on "Foundational Machine Learning Potentials - Challenges and Opportunities" on May 23, 2024, are now available on our YouTube channel.

The 5th edition of the FAIRmat newsletter is now available to download on our website! Stay up to date with all developments in our project, read an interesting interview with our user Ta-Shun Chou, and read many more articles from the FAIRmat community.

Recordings of FAIRmat Tutorial 13 are now available on the FAIRmat and NOMAD YouTube channel! The full playlist includes:

• NOMAD’s Base Sections and Built in schemas for ELN
• Schema & Plugin development
• Deploying your NOMAD plugins

Read more about the FAIRmat hands-on tutorial series here.

FAIRmat had a wonderful experience at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft on June 22, 2024. Our team was amazed by the overwhelming turnout and the enthusiastic response from the visitors to our booth, which focused on research data management and coding using Lego to gamify these topics. Engaging with the public, sharing our research, and seeing the curiosity and excitement of the public was incredibly rewarding.

Special thanks go out to our colleagues at CSMB for their organization and collaboration during this event.

We look forward to participating in next year’s edition!

Here are a few highlights from the event:

We are delighted to announce the FAIR-DI Award for Data Handling in a PhD Thesis. The FAIR-DI Award recognizes an exceptional PhD Thesis in the field of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-purposable) data.

The recipient of this award will have the opportunity to present their thesis at the FAIR-DI European Conference on Data Intelligence 2024 (Karlsruhe, Germany, 27-30 Oct 2024) and will receive a prize of €2000.

FAIRmat recently organized a highly successful satellite event of the LLM (Large Language Model) Hackathon for Applications in Materials and Chemistry at the Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB) from May 6 - 8. The event welcomed approximately 50 participants from esteemed institutions such as Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU), Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. The hackathon began with an engaging introductory talk by Kevin Jablonka, followed by lively discussions.

The event served as a platform to showcase innovative applications of LLMs in materials science. Participants were deeply involved in various projects and had the opportunity to present their work, with some even taking part in the global competition. A collection of submitted projects can be found online. Notably, our colleague Bernadette Mohr was a member of the prize-winning team “LangSIM”, and their project pitch is now available online. Additionally, our co-workers Nathan Daelman and Hampus Näsström were part of teams that received the Anthropic prize. The level of achievement demonstrated in just three days during the focused hackathon left us deeply impressed and delighted.

Several co-workers from FAIRmat took part in the DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matters Section at Technische Universität Berlin from March 17 to 22, 2024. Our colleagues from Area C, Theory and Computation, delivered multiple talks on the principles of FAIR data and how to use NOMAD in simulation and computational materials science. At the "Hacky Hour" event, focused on practical tools for daily scientific work, the newest member of the NOMAD family, NOMAD CAMELS, was introduced, offering a powerful new tool for research. Like last year, we represented our affiliated consortium, DAPHNE4NFDI, at the exhibition area with an information booth about research data management and NOMAD. The FAIRmat contributions were complemented by a tutorial on "FAIR research data - generation, handling, and analysis within the FAIRmat infrastructure."

On May 27-28, 2024, the 1st FAIRmat workshop on data exchange and storage in optical spectroscopy took place in Berlin and online. A report and the slides can be viewed here.

Our spokesperson, Claudia Draxl, gave an invited talk in the physics colloquium at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on April 17, 2024. She gives a perspective on how we come "From research data to data-centric research". You can find the video online now.

Recordings of FAIRmat tutorial 12 are now available on the FAIRmat and NOMAD YouTube channel! The full playlist includes:

• Introduction to NOMAD and NOMAD OASIS - Insights into technical aspects
• Hands-on Demonstration - Explore schemas, parsers, and data analysis

Read more about the FAIRmat hands-on tutorial series here.