Mission & Goals
How CAMM turns its mission into research, training, and translation.
CAMM advances materials science through integrated research, workforce development, and strategic partnerships.
The center supports collaborative discovery, prepares future researchers and entrepreneurs, and helps move discoveries toward new products, processes, and services.
Research Priorities
Mission-driven materials research
CAMM organizes team science through Interdisciplinary Research Groups and Seed projects. These research structures help the center connect artificial intelligence, advanced characterization, materials design, manufacturing, and performance testing.
IRG 1
Taming the Complexity of Quantum Materials with Artificial Intelligence
IRG 1 develops artificial-intelligence-enabled workflows for quantum materials discovery, characterization, and model reconstruction.
Machine learning · theory · neutron and X-ray scattering · scanning tunneling microscopy · spectroscopy · materials modeling
Explore CAMM ResearchIRG 2
Advancing Next Generation Alloys and Ceramics for Extremes
IRG 2 develops refractory compositionally complex alloys and ceramics through theory-guided design, combinatorial synthesis, autonomous characterization, AI-guided optimization, and testing under demanding conditions.
Alloys · ceramics · extreme environments · autonomous characterization · AI-guided optimization
Explore CAMM ResearchFuture Research Directions
Seed funding helps CAMM grow new ideas
EXPAND, INCLUDE, and TRANSLATE
Seed projects help CAMM establish new lines of inquiry, engage new groups, and support partnerships with industry and national laboratories.
Training & Impact
Preparing future researchers and entrepreneurs
CAMM’s mission extends beyond research results. Workforce development, outreach, partnerships, and knowledge transfer are part of how the center builds long-term research capacity.
Workforce development
CAMM trains undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers through research, mentoring, workshops, interdisciplinary collaboration, and professional development.
Education & TrainingOutreach and engagement
CAMM supports laboratory tours, career events, regional engagement programs, and opportunities that introduce K-12 and community college students to materials science, engineering, artificial intelligence, and quantum materials.
Outreach & Signature EventsTranslation
Connecting discovery to facilities, users, and partners
Shared facilities
CAMM connects researchers with facility-enabled projects, advanced characterization, materials synthesis, modeling, and collaborative technical expertise.
View FacilitiesExternal users and partnerships
CAMM links research, shared infrastructure, industry partners, national laboratories, and technology translation through collaborative programs.
Guest Research ProgramLooking Ahead
Building toward stronger integration and broader impact
Direction
Future IRG development
CAMM is continuing to develop its existing IRGs while using the Seed program to explore possible future research directions.
Direction
Artificial-intelligence-ready data
CAMM is developing shared materials datasets and FAIR data workflows that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
Direction
Regional and national impact
CAMM’s broader direction remains rooted in interdisciplinary team science, strong regional partnerships, national laboratory infrastructure, and close connections between research, education, and innovation.