MICRO Summit ‘24
In January ‘24, MICRO program participants at both Northwestern University and MIT travelled from across the country to MIT for three days of presentations, workshops, tours, and team-building activities.
Day 1:
MIT.nano tour: Touring the MIT.nano building with Tom Gearty. MIT.nano is MIT’s center for nanoscale science and engineering.
MIT Campus tour: MICRO participants and staff under the Great Dome at MIT.
MIT.nano tour: Exploring the One.MIT exhibit, where 270,000 names from the past and current MIT community are etched into a six-inch silicon wafer.
MIT.nano tour: Exploring the microscopy facilities
Student Presentations: Pablo Luna Falcon (University of Arizona) presents his work Machine Learning Prediction of the Al-Ce-NI-Mg System Mechanical Properties. Pablo is mentored by Jie Qi and Prof. David Dunand at Northwestern University.
Day 2:
Grad Student Panel: MIT graduate students Sam Figueroa, Isabella Caruso, and Eliana Feygin share experiences about graduate school and answer questions from the MICRO students.
Career Panel: Prof. Cécile Chazot (Northwestern University) leads a panel discussion about professional opportunities for Materials Scientists after graduate school. With Drs. Jatin Patil, Maureen Reitman, Lucas Caretta, Raquel D’Oyen and Ashley Kaiser.
Time for a coffee break!
Student Presentations: Nga (Nerissa) Vu from Bucknell University persents her work Development of Automated Active Learning Loop for the Prediction of Zeolite-OSDA Binding Energies. Neri is mentored by Mingrou Xie and Prof. Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli at MIT.
Day 3
Wrapping the weekend up over Sunday Brunch!
Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who made the 2024 MICRO Summit possible, including the MICRO students and staff, our panelists, and our tour guides. A special thank you to the sponsors who make MICRO possible: 3M, Northwestern University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NU’s Race and Justice Collaborative Seed Fund, MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and MIT Open Learning’s Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL). We would especially like to thank J-WEL for providing the grant funding that supported the MICRO Summit.