Symposium CM7-Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation

The ability to design materials has long accentuated the development of technology and infrastructure. The ever-increasing spectrum of functionalities required for materials fundamental to modern civilization requires efficient paradigms for materials discovery. These paradigms must go beyond current serendipitous discoveries and classical synthesis-characterization-theory approaches. To bridge these complex issues will require integrated and direct feedback from multi-scale functional measurements to theory and must allow real-time and archival experimental data to be incorporated effectively. The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) approach in the US and similar approaches internationally seek to accomplish this integration and transform the way materials research is conducted. As a result, in recent years great strides have been made toward combining computational, experimental and data science into a single integrated workflow, creating the framework for accelerating materials innovations. However, many challenges remain. For instance, high-throughput experimental techniques could provide great opportunities for accelerating materials validation but have been infrequently applied in MGI workflows. Further, gaps exist between the conditions under which materials are synthesized and characterized in a lab setting and their environment in applications. Alternatively, theoretical models are now routinely performed at atomistic levels and at the continuum level, but effective “scale bridging” techniques generalizable to multiple materials problems are lacking. Moreover, a disconnect remains between the theoretical and experimental communities hindering wide-spread effective interactions and knowledge transfer between the groups. Finally, there is a lack of effective generalizable data mining tools available to turn existing data into actionable knowledge. This symposium will bring together established experts and newcomers from academia, national laboratories, and industry to present the latest advances and discuss pressing challenges facing the MGI.

Topics will include:

High-Throughput First-Principles Theory and Computation
Materials genome initiative
Materials by design: Strategies and approaches
Theory driven materials development
Transforming data into knowledge
Informatics, data mining, and enabling software
Sharing materials data: Web based portals and tools
Creating tools for educating the MGI generation workforce
Data formatting and measurement standards for MGI
Integration of theory and experiments as well as theorists and experimentalists
Materials synthesis for high-throughput combinatorial discovery and development
Strategies and tools for high-throughput materials property measurements

Invited Speakers:

CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_0 (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_1 (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_2 (Duke University, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_3 (Humboldt University, Germany)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_4 (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_5 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_6 (University of South Carolina, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_7 (Japan Science Technology Agency, Japan)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_8 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_9 (Binghampton University SUNY, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_10 (Nagoya University, Japan)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_11 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_12 (University of Maryland, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_13 (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_14 (University of Tokyo, Japan)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_15 (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
CM7_Genomic Approaches to Accelerated Materials Innovation_16 (Stony Brook University, USA)