2025 MaRDA Virtual Annual Meeting FEBRUARY 18-20

    Meeting Chairs: Cosima Boswell-Koller (Alabama), David Elbert (JHU), Linda Sapochak (retired, former Co-Chair SMGI), and Ale Strachan (Purdue)

    Poster Session Winners: Maitreyo Biswas (Purdue) and Guanjin Wang (JHU)

    Winning Posters

    Maitreyo Bissau, Graduate student, Purdue University | Unified Graph-based Deep Learning Approach for Perovskite Structure Optimization

    Guanjin Wand, Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University | HomoSeg: Instance Segmentation with Automatic Labeling and Object Tracking for Crystallization Kinetics of Homopolymer in Dilute Phase

    MGI Challenges: From Data to Autonomy

    Tuesday, February 18, 2025
    MGI Challenges to Accelerate the Materials Innovation Infrastructure

    1:00 EST | Welcome and Introduction to MaRDA2025: David Elbert (JHU)

    1:10 | Session 1 –  MGI Challenges: From Strategic Plan to Communities of Practice

    Keynote: Challenge Driven Materials Innovation – Cosima Boswell-Koller (Alabama) and Benji Maruyama (AFRL)

    1:25 | MGI Challenges Panel  

    Panelists: Tyrel McQueen (JHU), Rich Vaia (AFRL), Katsuyo Thornton (Michigan), Dana Weinstein (Purdue)

    Moderators: Jim Warren (NIST), Cosima Boswell-Koller (Alabama), David Elbert (JHU)

    MGI Topic Areas:

    • Propelling the Information and Communications Technologies Revolution
    • Enhancing Structure Performance and Protecting the Environment 
    • Advancing Critical and Emerging Technology 

    2:20 (revised to 2:40) | Poster Session 1: GatherTown

    3:20 (revised to 3:40) | Session 2 – Challenge Breakouts: Stakeholders, Gaps, and Goals

    Introduction and Charge: David Elbert (JHU)

    3:40 | Breakouts

    • Room 1: Propelling the Information and Communications Technologies Revolution (moderated by Cosima Boswell-Koller)
    • Room 2: Enhancing Structure Performance and Protecting the Environment (moderated by Cate Brinson)
    • Room 3: Advancing Critical and Emerging Technology (moderated by Ben Blaiszik) 

    4:40 | Report Outs

    4:55 | Closing Remarks 

    Wednesday, February 19, 2025
    Materials Data: The Community- Publishing Connection

    1:00 EST | Welcome

    1:05 | Session 3: Breaking Barriers

    Chairs: Linda Sapochak (retired, former Co-Chair SMGI), Jonathan Schmidt (ETH Zurich)

    1:10 | Panel Presentations: 

    1:40 | Panel Discussion – Breaking Barriers: Streamlining Data Deposition for Advancing Materials Research

    Jane Greenberg (Drexel), Kamal Choudhary (NIST), Taylor Sparks (University of Utah), Markus Stricker (Ruhr Uni Bochum), Jonathan Schmidt (ETH Zurich), Dan Palmer (UIUC)

    2:30 | Poster Session 2: Gathertown

    3:30 | Session 4: Challenge Breakouts: Taking the Next Steps

    Introduction and Charge: David Elbert (JHU) 

    • Developing guidelines to streamline data deposition for advancing materials research.
    • MGI Challenges: Vision for the Future – A Student/Postdoc Discussion.
    • Finding New Challenges: How to Create Stakeholder Input to Create New Challenges

    4:30 | Report Outs

    4:45 | Closing Remarks 

    Linda Sapochak

    5:00 | Adjourn

    Thursday, February 20, 2025
    Autonomous Experiments and FAIR data

    1:00 EST | Welcome 

    Ale Strachan (Purdue)

    1:05 | Session 5:  FAIR Data Reports

    Chairs: Sergei Kalinin (ORNL)

    Laboratory Information Management (LIMS) working group Eric Stach

    1:20 | FAIR Train

    Olga Wodo (Buffalo)

    1:35 | FAIR Models 

    Ale Strachan (Purdue)

    1:50 | Launch of Working Group on Trusted Repositories 

    Cate Brinson (Duke)

    2:05 | Panel Discussion

    Cate Brinson (Duke),Olga Wodo (Buffalo), Ale Strachan (Purdue)

    3:00 | Session 6: Autonomous Experimentation  

    Chairs: Ale Strachan (Purdue)

    Autonomous Discovery with STEM and SPM

    Sergei Kalinin (ORNL)

    3:15 | Automated Chemical Research in the CMU Cloud Lab

    Newell Washburn (CMU) & Kevin Noonan (CMU)

    3:30 | Developing Autonomy in the Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design (AIMD) Laboratory

    Jaafar El-Awady (JHU)

    3:45 | Panel Discussion

    Sergei Kalinin (ORNL), Corinne Lipscomb (Solventum), Jaafar El-Awady (JHU)

    4:25 | Outstanding Poster Awards and Presentations: 

    4:45 | Closing Comments: 

    Ale Strachan (Purdue)

    5:00 | Adjourn