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-- present yourself
+- [present yourself]
   - hi, i am NAME
   - i am a PhD student at GROUP
   - with my PIs NAMES
   - i will talk about TITLE
-    - about quantum materials simulation, and why and how we evolve it from
-      physics-based to hybrid physics/AI
-- transition
+    - about quantum materials simulation, and why and how we integrate it with
+      artificial intelligence methods
+- [transition]
+  - [pause]
   - I want to tell you about what led me to this position, from all the way back
     to the beginning
 * Section Introduction
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 - [click slowly until "socio-economic trends", pause]
-- I realized that we live in a remarkable age. Industrialization. Health,
-  mobility, information have never been as good and available.
+- I realized that we live in a remarkable age. Industrialization. Healthcare,
+  mobility, information have never been as good and as available.
 ** Slide Anthropocene 2
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 - But the ecological outlook for the future has never looked as bleak.
 - Civilization has developed in a relatively stable climactic era, our systems
   are tuned to it. Though we now they existed, we as civilization have never
-  lived through them.
+  lived through periods of climactic change.
 ** Slide Carbon Duration
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   into calcium carbonate. So as long as modern civilization.
 - I heard this saying once. "If cancer is not solved in our lifetime, the world
   will stay the same, unfortunate as it is. If *this* problem [point to screen]
-  is not solved in our lifetime, the world will become a different place." One
-  that our civilization has not yet encountered. But we can avoid that societal
-  risk by decarbonizing.
+  is not solved in our lifetime, this planet will become a different one." One
+  that we as a civilization have not yet encountered.
 ** Slide Energy mix
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   energy-efficient. A truly *disruptive* change would be if you change how
   computing is done altogether, with quantum materials.
 - This is a diverse class of materials that exhibit purely quantum properties at
-  a macroscopic scale and thus allows to use these properties technologically.
+  a macroscopic scale and thus allows us to access and use these properties.
   Devices built with them could scale with respect to size, speed and energy use
   orders of magnitude better than what we have now.
-- Here are two examples from my research group. On the left are skyrmions,
-  little movable knots or swirling patterns of atomic spins.
+- Here are two examples from my research group. On the left are skyrmions, tiny
+  knots or swirling patterns in the atomistic magnetic field that can move
+  around.
 - On the right MZMs, another kind of quasiparticle that could be used for
   fault-tolerant quantum computing.
 - [click]
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 - So it is unsurprising that the big artificial intelligence players are coming
   into this field.
 - Since only last year, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other companies have
-  published large models that disruptively accelerate materials discovery, they
-  say
+  published large models that claim to disruptively accelerate materials discovery
 - So, AI to the rescue
 - [click]
 - Let me point out a seeming conundrum here. I said computing has a power
-  poroblem, and I propose to solve it with more computing. Then I said that AI
+  problem, and I propose to solve it with more computing. Then I said that AI
   makes it worse, and I propose to solve it with more AI. But, if we use this
   for enabling a distruptive technology like quantum materials, then it changes
   the game. Potentially for all materials and thus all energy technologies. And
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 - Note quite. These big corporate models are rather coarse-grained.
 - Quantum materials require super-high accuracy to meV and lower
 - All-electron DFT can do that. There are only a handful, and two of them are
-  developed at Jülich in our group over four decades
+  have benn developed at Jülich in our group over four decades
 - Integrated with in-house multiscale and HT workflow engines (Spirit, AiiDA)
 - Below an example of the accuracy of our code compared to other popular DFT
   codes