Program schedule is here and at the end of this page.
The workshop will run from Feb. 9 starting at 8:00 am to Feb. 10, ending at 12 noon. Those interested in an informal post-workshop lunch are welcome to join us just after the end of the workshop.
A PDF of the program and the poster abstracts are now available.
Confirmed speakers include:
Links to bios and abstracts are available with each speaker name.
Simon Billinge
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Carelyn (Carrie) Campbell
Metallurgist, Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Martha Grover
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Supratik Guha
Director, Physical Sciences Department, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Surya Kalidindi
Professor, Director of Materials Informatics for Engineering Design group, Georgia Tech
Bryce Meredig
Founder, Citrine Informatics
Brian Puchala
Assistant Research Scientist, Lead Domain Scientist for Materials Commons, University of Michigan
John Schlueter
Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF), Director of Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
Anatole von Lilienfeld
Professor, University of Basel – Switzerland
Paul Voyles
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Antony (Tony) Williams
Founder and Vice President of Strategic Development of ChemSpider, President of ChemConnector
Program Schedule:
Mon 2/9
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:15 am Welcome from the Accelerator Network
8:30 am Antony Williams – Hosting Public Domain Chemicals Data Online for the Community – the Challenges of Handling Materials
9:20 am Paul Voyles – Opportunities At The Intersection of Data Science and Materials Characterization
10:10 am Break
10:30 am Simon Billinge – The Materials Complexity Frontier: Applied Math and Computational Challenges
11:20 am Martha Grover – Experimental Design as an Organizing Principle for Materials Design
12:10 pm John Schlueter – The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF):
Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
12:30 pm Lunch provided
1:30 pm Antole von von Lilienfeld – Efficient Methods for Sampling Materials Space from First Principles
2:20 pm Carelyn (Carrie) Campbell – The Materials Genome Initiative and the “Data Revolution”
3:10 pm Break
3:30 pm Bryce Meredig – Materials Data in the 21st Century: from Mishmash to Moneyball
4:20 pm Brainstorming discussion on opportunities in materials informatics.
5:00 pm Networking and poster session
7:00 pm Dinner at Samba Restaurant
Tues 2/10
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Supratik Guha – Big Data Opportunities in Materials Science
9:20 am Brian Puchala – The Materials Commons: A Novel Information Repository and Collaboration Platform for the Materials Community
10:10 am Break
10:30 am Surya Kalidindi – How Can Data Science Enable Accelerated Development of Hierarchical Materials
11:10 am Brainstorming discussion on opportunities in materials informatics.
11:50 am Wrap up
12:00 noon Lunch – informal with anyone interested
More speakers and program details to follow!