Materials

…models, and separating geometry, materials and lighting in Gaussian-splatting representations. The engineer will train and evaluate models and integrate them into visualization tools. This five-month contract in Sophia Antipolis has a stated start date of 1 December 2026. Gross monthly salary starts at EUR 2,692. Applications close on 15 November 2026.

…Researchers connect materials and memory devices with circuits, systems and applications, including sparse computation and compute-in-memory architectures that reduce data movement. Two discussion days address fundamental advances and challenges; the final day considers translation and wider impacts. Programme participants include Steve Furber, Judith Driscoll and Tony Kenyon. The meeting takes place at The Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, or online, on 23–25 November 202

…Priority areas include materials, life sciences, health and pharmaceuticals, and digital technologies. Submissions run from 6 October 2026 to 28 January 2027 at 15:00.

…sessions examine how chemicals, materials, products and manufacturing systems can be designed, produced, used and recovered sustainably. Workshops, research posters and industry–academic exchanges connect scientific methods with implementation, while a startup showcase explores emerging technologies. Abstract submissions run from 4 January to 15 February 2027.

…methods and their applications to materials, molecular processes and engineering. It brings together the community developing and using magnetic resonance microscopy to compare methodological progress and applications. Chalmers University of Technology hosts the nineteenth edition under the auspices of the Division of Spatially Resolved Magnetic Resonance of the AMPERE Society, continuing its biennial programme of scientific exchange.

…applications across condensed matter, materials, chemistry and quantum information. Fellows develop concepts, algorithms and open-source software, publish findings, participate in collaborative activities and mentor students. The initial appointment is generally two years, renewable for a third based on performance, with an anticipated start between late August and late November 2027. The position is based at the foundation’s New York City offices; annual full-time compensation is $

Synthesize organic and organometallic compounds for materials used in extreme environments. The project connects precursor chemistry with ceramic and carbon composites, including conventional and additive manufacturing, at the Chemical Sciences Division and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. Applications are made on the employer’s recruitment portal; no closing date is stated.

…to the deformation and failure of materials.

Humans are very good at visually recognizing materials and inferring their properties. Without touching surfaces, we can usually tell what they would feel like, and we enjoy vivid visual intuitions about how they typically behave. This is impressive because the retinal image that the visual system receives as input is the result of complex interactions between many physical processes. Somehow the brain has to disentangle these different factors. I will present some recent work in which we show that an unsupervised neural network trained on images of surfaces spontaneously learns to disentangle

Anja Røyne discusses chemical elements, the materials around us and questions about the availability of natural resources. Conversation in Norwegian.