APS Journals

Physics Next: Materials Design and Discovery

May 15-17, 2017

Organizers

Giulia Galli, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Mercouri Kanatzidis, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

Meeting Coordinators

Athanasios Chantis, Managing Editor, Physical Review Materials
Yan Li, Associate Editor, Physical Review B

Location

Hyatt Place Long Island hotel, Riverhead, Long Island, NY

Materials design and discovery is an emerging area in Materials Science and Materials Physics. This field has grown rapidly in recent years and is increasingly being carried out in a way that transcends conventional subject boundaries. The main goals of this workshop are to bring together selected senior and early career theorists and experimentalists from this multidisciplinary field, in an informal intellectual setting conducive to assessing the status and potential future of the new directions in material design and discovery as they start to “emerge from the noise;” facilitate communication between researchers moving into those areas from different angles and with different expertise, such as condensed-matter physicists, soft matter physicists, material physicists, material chemists, material scientists, material engineers, and others; bring the Physical Review editorial team up to speed on these new developments and help assess related editorial needs.

Scope

Materials design and discovery. New methods: computational, experimental, coupled computational & experimental methods. Machine learning and high-throughput techniques. Data mining. Concepts of compound prediction and the science of synthesis. Application to materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation, ferroelectrics, multiferroics, magnetic materials, topological materials, semiconducting materials, and superconducting materials.

Meeting Activities

• Invited talks and overview presentations
• Group discussions
• Meet the APS Editors Reception
• Afternoon/Evening excursions

Workshop Agenda

List of participants in alphabetical order

• Paul Canfield, Ames Laboratory
• Marco Fornari, Central Michigan University
• Danny Fredrickson, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
• Oleg Gang, Columbia University and Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University
• Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University and Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Kirill Kovnir, University of California, Davis
• Susan Latturner, Florida State University
• Turab Lookman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Steven Louie, University of California, Berkeley
• Tyrel McQueen, Johns Hopkins University
• Andrew Millis, Columbia University
• John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
• Karin Rabe, Rutgers University
• Andrew Rappe, University of Pennsylvania
• Efrain Rodriguez, University of Maryland
• Darrel Schlom, Cornell University
• Dimitri Talapin, University of Chicago
• Chris Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California
• Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University
• Younan Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Alex Zunger, University of Colorado Boulder