Meeting Events Schedule—Daily

Monday, April 22
7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Elliott Bay Room

Network, Engage, Collaborate, Unwind...The Inclusive Connections Lounge is the place to be! This space is designed to be a welcoming place for our members to connect and celebrate what makes each of us unique. Don’t forget to pick up your SIG ribbons here!

Monday, April 22
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 348

Monday, April 22
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 347

This tutorial session will feature the upcoming R&D topics of metal halide perovskite semiconductors including fundamental theories, stability, devices, and processing/manufacturing. It is expected to provide a clear landscape on the metal halide perovskite research of the next decade, and give instructions to scientists and engineers from the broad materials research community who are interested in performing related research. The session will contain five lectures that will be presented in an educational style. It will start with Yan's lecture illustrating the essential materials characteristics of perovskites from the perspective of atomic theories. Then  You and Zhu will present how efficient and stable perovskites can be made and how the performance can be reliably measured. Finally, Bolink and Fan will present lectures illustrating how perovskite solar cells can possibly be commercialized from the perspectives of processing and manufacturing.

Monday, April 22
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 321

This tutorial will introduce basic techniques for machine learning and AI, all from a material science perspective.

Monday, April 22
9:00 am – 11:30 am
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 346

This tutorial has been cancelled. 

Monday, April 22
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 344

This tutorial lecture will introduce some state-of-the-art ML/AI approaches for predicting energy carriers' transport behaviors in materials. Both traditional ML methods (such as random forest) and novel graph neural networks will be presented with showcase studies on training, testing and prediction of lattice vibrations (phonons). Particular focus will be our recently developed Elemental Spatial Density Neural Network Force Field (Elemental-SDNNFF) with abundant atomic-level environments as training data. Benefiting from the innovative architecture of the algorithm, sub-trillion atomic data can be integrated to train a single deep neural network for predicting complete phonon properties of >100,000 inorganic crystals spanning 63 elements in the periodic table.

Monday, April 22
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 332

This event provides an opportunity to network with and learn from leading researchers in Africa, U.S., Europe and beyond. It benefits all attendees, particularly early-career scientists seeking to foster new collaborations.

Monday, April 22
5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
Hyatt Regency Seattle, Level 7, Room 708, Sol Duc

Hosted by the MRS Diversifying Materials Special Interest Groups (SIGs), don't miss this opportunity to connect and engage with peers during a fun speed-networking event. Secure your spot.

Tuesday, April 23
7:00 am – 8:30 am
Hyatt Regency Seattle, Level 7, Regency Ballroom A

Jennifer Gerbi will present Resilience—How I Built a Career by Embracing Risk Despite Uncertainty. A complimentary breakfast will be served. Advance sign-up required. The MRS Women in Materials Science & Engineering Keynote Breakfast event is intended to promote interaction across various ethnic, cultural and gender boundaries and facilitate dialogue among all people working in or pursuing education toward a profession in materials science or engineering.

Tuesday, April 23
7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Elliott Bay Room

Network, Engage, Collaborate, Unwind...The Inclusive Connections Lounge is the place to be! This space is designed to be a welcoming place for our members to connect and celebrate what makes each of us unique. Don’t forget to pick up your SIG ribbons here!

Tuesday, April 23
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB 

Step into the forefront of innovation at the 2024 MRS Spring Exhibit, a global showcase of cutting-edge advancements in the field. Explore a diverse array of exhibits, featuring groundbreaking research and technologies that are shaping the future of materials science.  Be a part of this dynamic community driving progress in materials research.

Tuesday, April 23
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Science as Art Competition is open to all registered 2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit attendees. Finalists' entries will be on display in the Hynes Convention Center. Multiple first-place and second-place awards of $400 and $200, respectively, will be presented to the winning entries at the Meeting. 

Tuesday, April 23
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex C

The Career Fair provides an opportunity for Meeting participants and top employers to discuss career opportunities. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with senior scientists and partake in one-on-one mentoring sessions, resume critiques and more!

Tuesday, April 23
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB

Stop by the Visit Seattle Booth and take your chances to win a prize! Visit Seattle will be in attendance and is bringing the Puget Sound to the trade show. Stop by the Visit Seattle Booth and try your hand at a fishing game (Tuesday night only) where participants can fish for different Seattle-themed prizes. While you’re at the booth feel free to ask Visit Seattle what you should see and do in the city.

Wednesday, April 24
7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Elliott Bay Room

Network, Engage, Collaborate, Unwind...The Inclusive Connections Lounge is the place to be! This space is designed to be a welcoming place for our members to connect and celebrate what makes each of us unique. Don’t forget to pick up your SIG ribbons here!

Wednesday, April 24
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Room 438

This session presents data and research about the role of typical admissions practices in maintaining racial/ethnic inequalities in graduate education, as well as strategies for more equitable processes and outcomes. Secure your seat.

Wednesday, April 24
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 5, Signature Room

Join the 2024 MRS Award recipients as they present their research and answer questions from the audience.

Wednesday, April 24
11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB

Stop by the Visit Seattle Booth and take your chances to win a prize! Visit Seattle will be in attendance and is bringing the Puget Sound to the trade show. While you’re at the booth feel free to ask Visit Seattle what you should see and do in the city.

Wednesday, April 24
11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex C

The Career Fair provides an opportunity for Meeting participants and top employers to discuss career opportunities. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with senior scientists and partake in one-on-one mentoring sessions, resume critiques and more!

Wednesday, April 24
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Room 438

Attendees will learn the science behind storytelling through key details and narrative techniques to keep their audience engaged.

Wednesday April 24
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB

Join Nathan Baker, Product Leader of Azure Quantum Elements at Microsoft, to learn how scientists and researchers can accelerate material discovery by harnessing the best of both HPC and AI in a single platform designed for scientific innovation.

Wednesday, April 24
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB

Thursday, April 25
7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Elliott Bay Room

Network, Engage, Collaborate, Unwind...The Inclusive Connections Lounge is the place to be! This space is designed to be a welcoming place for our members to connect and celebrate what makes each of us unique. Don’t forget to pick up your SIG ribbons here!

Thursday, April 25
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB

Stop by the Visit Seattle Booth and take your chances to win a prize! Visit Seattle will be in attendance and is bringing the Puget Sound to the trade show. While you’re at the booth feel free to ask Visit Seattle what you should see and do in the city.

Thursday, April 25
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 2, Flex AB

The Science as Art Competition is open to all registered 2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit attendees. Finalists' entries will be on display in the Hynes Convention Center. Multiple first-place and second-place awards of $400 and $200, respectively, will be presented to the winning entries at the Meeting. 

Thursday, April 25
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Room 420

The tutorial session will focus on two main topics (two tutorial presentations):

• Tutorial 1: "Multidimensional Spectroscopy in Solid State Systems" covered by Daniele Brida. This tutorial will include ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy, two-dimensional and multidimensional spectroscopy.

• Tutorial 2: "Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and Diffraction" covered by Claus Ropers. This tutorial will include ultrafast TEM, ultrafast LEED and some first ultrafast LEEM.

Both topics are intimately related to the main focus of the symposium, that is, Ultrafast Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Materials

Thursday, April 25
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Summit  - Seattle Convention Center, Level 5, Ballroom 2

Thursday, April 25
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, Room 345

PowerPoint™ Karaoke challenges both the author of the slide and the presenter to improve their communication skills. Please join us for this fun event!

Friday, April 26
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Summit - Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, Elliott Bay Room

Network, Engage, Collaborate, Unwind...The Inclusive Connections Lounge is the place to be! This space is designed to be a welcoming place for our members to connect and celebrate what makes each of us unique. Don’t forget to pick up your SIG ribbons here!