Welcome!
Welcome to our group’s page! Feel free to take a look around. The site is still under construction; so check back for new content soon!
ACME?!?
ACME stands for Accelerated Computation of Materials for Energy. The word “acme” also refers to “the point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful,” (per the OED) reminding us of what we can strive for in our work every day.
And finally, the ACME Corporation from Looney Tunes reminds us that while we set high standards for our research, we can’t take ourselves too seriously all the time, and we always remember to find joy and laughter in work and life.
You can read more about our group’s culture here.
Our Work
We are a computational materials science group in the Materials Science Department in the Carnegie Mellon School of Engineering, led by Prof. Rachel Kurchin. We focus on simulation and data-driven methods that can accelerate development and understanding of materials for a variety of clean energy applications. Stay tuned for more details as this site gets updated!
PI: Dr. Rachel C. Kurchin
Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon Materials Science and Engineering (and Physics by courtesy)
News
3 September, 2024 Congratulations to Andrew, whose first paper is now published as an Editor’s Pick in the Journal of Applied Physics!
29 August, 2024 Congratulations to Po-Sen for his coauthorship on this paper!
26 August, 2024 An official welcome to Raphael Stone, the newest PhD student in the group!
1 July, 2024 Welcome to Evan Spotte-Smith, a CBI Fellow and the group’s first postdoc!
12 April, 2024 🥉 Congratulations to Andrew, who won third place in the MSE graduate symposium poster competition!
16 February, 2024 🚨 New paper alert! Rachel wrote an invited Comment piece in Nature Reviews Physics about Bayesian parameter estimation.
16 January, 2024 Congratulations to Rochan, who has now officially transitioned to being a PhD student in the group!