PARADIM has offered summer school programs involving hands-on use of PARADIM facilities that have helped educate PARADIM’s community of practitioners and helped advance the field through the cross-fertilization of ideas. These summer schools helped train the next generation of technologists—people who are accustomed to designing and creating new interface materials with atomic precision and have the skills necessary to capitalize on useful new interface material ideas and make them a reality.
Although PARADIM does not currently offer the summer school program, it has created a Materials-By-Design resource to support current users and aid the next generation of users. This resource will supply users and potential users a full catalog of videos of lectures, data tools and codes, and computational theory resources from past summer schools.
Below is a list of all of the past PARADIM summer schools:
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2024: PARADIM Summer School and Kavli Workshop on Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
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2023: Introduction to Density Functional Theory for Experimentalists Including the Latest Advances
- 2022: MBE+ARPES:
Customizing Quantum Materials with Atomic Layer Precision and Measuring their Electronic Structure - 2021: Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy: Probing Local Structures, Chemistry and Functional Properties of Materials
- 2021: An Introduction to Density Functional Theory (DFT) for Experimentalists
- 2019: MBE+ARPES: Customizing Oxides with Atomic Layer Precision and Measuring their Electronic Structure
- 2018: An Introduction to Density Functional Theory (DFT) for Experimentalists
- 2017: Summer School and Workshop on Electron Microscopy
- 2016: An Introduction to Density Functional Theory (DFT) for Experimentalists
- 2024: Novel Semiconductor Frontiers: Accelerating Materials Design and Development.
- 2023: Data Driven Materials Discovery: From ML to Maker Space
- 2022: Recent Developments in and Future Quantum Applications of Superconductivity
- 2021: Frustrated Magnetism Meets Topology
- 2020: Virtual Summer School on Materials Growth and Design: Frontiers in Superconductivity
- 2019: Discovery in the Era of Big (Materials) Data
- 2018: Exotic Magnetic States in Quantum Materials
- 2017: Design-Driven Synthesis of Topological Materials
- 2016: Materials Growth and Design
A team-based, multidisciplinary approach to materials-by-design is needed to increase the pace of new materials discovery. To that end, every summer school included sessions designed to develop the team skills necessary to enable creative and productive collaborations among theorists, film/crystal growers, and microscopists/materials characterization experts. These sessions brought an awareness to the challenges of team-based efforts and highlight strategies for reaping the benefits of collaborative work.
