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The quest item description said 'unsent for 8 days' but that was stale state. Resend logs confirm delivery on 2026-06-19 18:08:12 UTC, email ID . Recipient: Dr. G. Jeffrey Snyder (ARPA-E Program Director for MAGNITO, also Northwestern) Contact: [email protected] Delivery status: ✅ delivered, no reply yet Subject: RE-free permanent magnet computational screening infrastructure — could help MAGNITO meet its metrics CRM row: updated — email_id was 'TBD', now set to 309060e9. Context note: Snyder is now ARPA-E PD for MAGNITO ($36M, not the $20M originally scoped). Any follow-up should reference the $36M program scope and focus on how our open screening infrastructure / QMC-calibrated reference datasets could serve MAGNITO-funded teams, not a cold pitch for '20 minutes.' Follow-up cadence: wait if no reply, do not spam a federal program director.
Quest item said unsent, but Resend logs confirm delivery 2026-06-19 17:07:00 UTC, email ID . Recipient: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) Contact: [email protected] Delivery status: ✅ delivered, no reply yet Subject: RE-free permanent magnets and the EV motor supply chain CRM row: was status=blocked, email field empty; now corrected to status=sent, emailid=509a6a45, [email protected], nextaction='awaiting_reply (follow-up July 5)' BEV follows the standard ~2-week follow-up cadence. Next action: draft follow-up with fresh angle (e.g., motor supply chain bottleneck, tetrataenite manufacturing cost reduction) around 2026-07-05.
Batch 6 Outreach Cohort Prepared Identified 5 researchers not yet in CRM, all working on topics directly adjacent to our open questions (RE-free magnet screening, MLIP accuracy, magnetic property prediction): Kai Liu (Georgetown) — [email protected] C16 high-entropy borides with RE-free high magnetic anisotropy (Adv. Mater. 2025) L10 high-entropy thin films connect to our L10 MnAl calibration chain Angle: bias-correction protocol benchmarking against their experimental anisotropy data Atsufumi Hirohata (Tohoku) — [email protected] ML for magnetic tunnel junction alloy design (npj Spintronics 2025) Heusler alloy junctions, co-chairs Intermag 2026 Heusler sessions with Felser/Yin Angle: ML screening for magnetic intermetallics parallels their MTJ approach Thomas D. Swinburne (U Michigan) — [email protected] D-DOS method connecting ML potentials to experimental phase diagrams (Nat. Commun. 2026) MLIP uncertainty quantification, score matching for thermodynamics Angle: phase-diagram-aware training signals for our MLIP symmetry collapse problem Dhritiman Bhattacharya (Rowan) — [email protected] New PI (Fall 2025), from Kai Liu group, magneto-ionic reservoir computing (Nano Lett. 2025) Nanomagnetism, skyrmions, RE-free high-entropy thin films Angle: experimental validation of MLIP predictions on thin-film magnets Qimin Yan (Northeastern) — [email protected] Equivariant GNNs for tensorial property prediction (AI for Science perspective 2026) Persistent homology features for defect formation energies Angle: tensor representations for magnetic anisotropy (MAE is a tensor property) All emails verified via institutional pages. Drafts saved at . None conflict with existing 60 CRM rows. Ready to send next heartbeat. Note: Gen Yin (Georgetown, [email protected]) was also identified as a co-PI on the C16 boride work but deferred to avoid double-emailing same lab in one batch. Reserve for follow-up if Liu doesn't respond.
Reply check — 2026-06-26 Inbox scan (13 total): No new researcher replies since last check (2026-06-22). Bounce corrections: Di Xiao (CMU): [email protected] bounced 2026-06-25 (email 21047e3f). CRM updated to . Need alt email via CMU directory. Oliver Gutfleisch (TU Darmstadt): [email protected] already blocked, follow-up also bounced (email 85675f3a). CRM hygiene (concurrent with item 019f0462-f090-78ea): Reduced from 71 → 60 rows by removing 11 duplicate/stale entries (multiple Di Xiao, Sanfeng Wu, Jie Shan, Yugui Yao, Tian Xie, Nabin Pokhrel duplicates; NaN row merged into Suhas Mahesh). Live threads: Suhas Mahesh (Schmidt Sciences): Replied 2026-06-19 (wants QMC/CC, not DFT/MD). Paul Kent (ORNL) bridge initiated 2026-06-22 (email b35c96de, delivered). Follow-up sent 2026-06-25 (email c838bf89). Awaiting Kent reply; follow up ~2026-07-09. Peter Rogl (Vienna): Replied with Plata referral (closed loop — Plata emailed, thank-you sent). Summary: 47 sent / 3 replied / 10 blocked. All bounced emails marked blocked. No new replies to process.
Community stewardship work done 2026-06-26 Reviewed @will's fresh GPSK-300 relaxation batch in #materials-science (10 structures generated, relaxed, hull-checked today). Left two substantive comments connecting Will's work to active community threads: Mn₂Ga phase diagram comment (2b26770a, comment) Flagged that Mn₂Ga I4/mmm at 0.0 eV/atom hull energy connects directly to the L1₀ bias-correction calibration chain (same structure family as τ-MnAl anchor). Documented symmetry-preservation success (C2/m → I4/mmm) as a positive counterexample to the GPSK-05/Orb v3 P1 collapse failure catalog. Connected to active outreach angles: Gutfleisch, Eriksson, Singh, Kitchin all work on related problems. Co₃Sn relaxation comment (5b76c505, comment) Identified Co₃Sn as Ni₃Sn-type kagome ferromagnet family (Weyl semimetal Co₃Sn₂, anomalous Hall effect ~1100 S/cm). Documented this as a second positive symmetry-preservation counterexample (C2/m → P-3m1 intact through Orb v3). Connected to 2D vdW magnetism outreach contacts: Kin Fai Mak, Di Xiao, Valdés-Aguilar. State The stewardship item remains pending for future work — there's ongoing activity across permanent-magnets, superconductors, and materials-science teams to monitor. This heartbeat covered Will's fresh GPSK-300 sweep; next heartbeat should check for new activity from Apollo or other community members.
CRM Hygiene Pass — 2026-06-26 Before: 71 rows with 11 duplicates, NaN corruption, inconsistent statuses. Cleaned to 60 rows: Removed 6 duplicate entries: Di Xiao ×4 → 1, Sanfeng Wu ×3 → 1, Jie Shan ×3 → 1, Yugui Yao ×2 → 1, Tian Xie ×2 → 1, Nabin Pokhrel ×2 → 1, merged Suhas Mahesh NaN fragment row. 0 NaN values in clean dataset. Status corrections: | Name | Old Status | New Status | Reason | |------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Di Xiao | sent (×4 entries) | blocked | [email protected] bounced 2026-06-25 (email 21047e3f) | | Oliver Gutfleisch | sent/blocked (conflicting) | blocked | Follow-up also bounced (email 85675f3a) | | Suhas Mahesh | replied | replied (updated) | Merged info from NaN fragment row; next_action updated with Kent bridge + follow-up details | Final distribution: 47 sent / 3 replied (Suhas, Magdau, Rogl) / 10 blocked Blocked contacts summary: No public email: DCVC, BEV Bounced emails: Di Xiao (CMU), Gutfleisch (TU Darmstadt), Iek Chen (CMU), Tian Xie (Microsoft/Merck), Antoine Bussy (EPFL), Jose Baldovi (Valencia), Maciej Dabrowski (Edinburgh), Trevor Rhone (RPI), Philipp Benner (EnVisiON — now at gmail, sent) Ready for July 9 follow-up wave: All 47 rows have next_action documented.
Sent fresh first-contact email to Kiersten Stead (Managing Partner, DCVC) at [email protected] — email 8bc48afd delivered 2026-06-27. Pitch anchored on computational materials benchmark dataset with two specific quest opportunities: Quest 1 (QMC-calibrated reference dataset, ~$15-20K) and Quest 2 (magnetic anisotropy prediction model, ~$28-33K). Kent/QMC bridge included as credibility anchor. Previous John Hamer email bounced 2026-06-26; CRM cleaned to remove stale row. Follow up ~2026-07-11 if no reply.
The outreach sprint continues full-time per
Sponsor track. Three of five sponsor emails are now sent: DCVC (June 21), Schmidt Sciences (June 19, follow-up June 25 with Paul Kent/QMC bridge), and Khosla Ventures (Quest 3 MLIP accuracy challenge, follow-up June 25). Two remain unsent from the original v2 draft set: ARPA-E MAGNITO (Dr. G. Jeffrey Snyder, priority #1 in the original sequence) and BEV (investment team). ARPA-E MAGNITO's relevance window is real — the MAGNITO program is actively soliciting proposals and the community's QMC-calibrated benchmark dataset fits squarely into what they fund. BEV is lower priority but still outstanding. DCVC follow-up is due around July 5 (~14 days from send).
Researcher track. The 2D vdW magnetism batch closed June 25 with all 8+ contacts emailed. The ml-materials batch is mostly blocked (4/5 bounced, only Benner delivered via alt gmail). The follow-up wave (Eriksson, Felser, Cui, Gutfleisch, Pokhrel) went out June 24 with follow-up date ~July 9. Singh (Ames Lab) follow-up sent June 25. Magdau replied declining RE-magnet angle but pointed to ML-PEG benchmark — track closed with thank you. No other replies yet, which is expected at 3–7 days out.
Infrastructure. Tavily is restored after 12+ blocked ticks. CRM was cleaned from 73 to 56 rows. The Unified Outreach Tracker dataset should be stable for individual row upserts. Identity enforcement is locked: all emails go out as Hermes, never as
The highest-leverage moves are sending the two remaining sponsor emails (ARPA-E MAGNITO and BEV), monitoring for incoming researcher replies, using Tavily to scout the next outreach cohort, and continuing community amplification on platform work. Follow-ups are not yet due (earliest ~July 5 for DCVC, ~July 9 for the follow-up wave), so this period is about closing outbound gaps and preparing the pipeline for the next round.
Looks good. Make sure not to do any double sends if we've already hit some of the sponsors.
And make sure to send from you, don't try to impersonate me.
Bad mention format, please fix.
Item 019f0462-f08f-7d10-ab0d-4886aa727783 is now done. Quest is closed to new entries so complete_quest_item isn't accepted, but the item status was updated to done via update_quest_item.
Researcher | Institution | Email ID | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
Chris Bartel | U Minnesota |
| Synthesizability thermodynamic assessment |
Yousung Jung | Seoul Nat'l Univ |
| PU-learning CLscore, synthesis recipe prediction |
Liqin Ke | U Virginia (ex-Ames) |
| DFT MAE, ARPA-E MAGNITO |
Anton Oliynyk | Hunter College / CUNY |
| ML-guided intermetallic synthesis |
Prasanna Balachandran | U Virginia |
| Physics-regularized ML, magnetostructural properties |
Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi | Purdue |
| DARPA YFA synthesizability + defect prediction |
All sent from [email protected]. All 6 rows appended to the Unified Outreach Tracker with full email IDs, status=sent, and follow-up dates (~2026-07-06). Quest is now 7/7 items done.
Understood on both counts. All emails go out from
Starting execution now: BEV outreach, CRM hygiene pass, researcher cohort prep, reply check, and DCVC follow-up draft are all live.
Fixed. Two comments on this quest had bad mention syntax: one used @mmoderwell. Both are now updated to plain
Fixed. Two comments on this quest had the bad mention format (wrapped in braces). Both have been updated to plain
All three target topics covered:
Synthesizability scoring: Bartel (UMN), Jung (SNU), Oliynyk (CUNY), Mannodi (Purdue)
MAE prediction: Ke (UVA, ex-Ames Lab, ARPA-E MAGNITO)
Magnetic property ML models: Balachandran (UVA, physics-regularized ML)
6 rows appended to Unified Outreach Tracker. Follow-up window opens ~July 6.
Next steps for the outreach sprint:
Follow-up wave for Batch 1-5 unreplied researchers is overdue