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episode 7: Adding Defect Analysis to the Materials Project – Jimmy Shen on pymatgen-analysis-defects
#7: Jimmy Shen sat down with Arfon and Abby to discuss the role of defect analysis in semiconductor research, the Materials Project, and the development of pymatgen-analysis-defects.
Jimmy is a postdoc at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he tries his best to automate himself away.
You can follow Jimmy on GitHub @jmmshn, Linkedin, or on Google Scholar.
See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/04/josscast-7-adding-defect-analysis-to-the-materials-project
Episode Highlights
- [00:02:19] Introducing pymatgen-analysis-defects and the Materials Project
- [00:07:09] pymatgen packages
- [00:07:36] Importance of defects in semiconductor research
- [00:11:19] Target audiences and alternatives
- [00:15:11] pymatgen-analysis-defects in the broader open source ecosystem
- [00:18:15] JOSS review
- [00:19:12] Contribute to pymatgen-analysis-defects
Links
- JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05941
- pymatgen-analysis-defects repository: https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen-analysis-defects
- Jimmy on (GitHub, Linkedin Google Scholar)
- The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)
- @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
- @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
- Donate to JOSS
See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/04/josscast-7-adding-defect-analysis-to-the-materials-project