Agenda

Program At-A-Glance

Seminar Sessions (Note: each talk is 20 mins + 10 mins Q&A)

US time zones: March 22-24 (Mon-Wed, 4-7 pm PT, 7-10 pm ET)
Japan time: March 23-25 (Tue-Thu, 8-11 am)

Daily After-Session Events

US time zones: March 22-24 (Mon-Wed, 7-7:45 pm PT, 10-10:45 pm ET)
Japan time: March 23-25 (Tue-Thu, 11-11:45 am)

Discussion Session on Future Collaboration Opportunities

US time zones: March 25 (Thu, 4-5 pm PT, 7-8 pm ET)
Japan time: March 26 (Fri, 8-9 am)

Poster Session 

US time zones: March 25 (Thu, 5-7 pm PT, 8-10 pm ET)
Japan time: March 26 (Fri, 9-11 am)

**Zoom and Gather.Town links will be sent via emails to registered attendees. A map of our Gather.Town space can be seen here.

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Day 1. March 22 (US) / March 23 (Japan) Seminar Session (Chairs: Stephan Wu, Amy Marconnet)

US time zones: 4-7 pm PT, 7-10 pm ET; Japan time: 8-11 am

Opening Remarks (20 mins):

Anne L. Emig, Lead for the Programs and Analysis Cluster in the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering

Kazuyoshi Shimada, Director, Washington, D.C. Office of Japan Science and Technology Agency

• General Talk 1 – Junichiro Shiomi, University of Tokyo, Japan (30 mins)

  • Title: Materials Informatics for Thermal Transport Realized by The Research Hub (recording)

• Theme 1: Data Infrastructure (120 mins)  

  • Kristin Persson, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
    • Title: Data-Driven Materials Innovation and Design (recording)
  • Yibin Xu, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
    • Title: Materials Big Data: Expectation and Reality (recording)
  • Yukari Katsura, University of Tokyo, Japan
    • Title: Starrydata: An Open Database for Experimental Material Data Curated from Published Plots (recording)
  • Anubhav Jain, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
    • Title: Capturing and Leveraging Materials Science Knowledge from Millions of Journal Articles using Natural Language Processing Techniques (recording)

After-Session Event (Moderator: Junichiro Shiomi)

US time zones: 7-7:45 pm PT, 10-10:45 pm ET; Japan time: 11-11:45 am

• Brainstorming Session on Future Directions and Role of International Collaborations

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Day 2. March 23 (US) / March 24 (Japan) Seminar Session (Chairs: Yuta Yoshimoto, Zhiting Tian)

US time zones: 4-7 pm PT, 7-10 pm ET; Japan time: 8-11 am

• General Talk 2 – Jeffrey Meth, DuPont, USA (30 mins)

  • Title: Controlling Temperature in Electronic Systems – An Industrial Perspective on the Material Needs of the Industry (recording)

• Theme 2: Simulation-aided Materials Informatics & Thermal Transport (150 mins)

  • Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University, USA
    • Title: To mix, or Not to Mix: Theoretical Frameworks for Discovering High-Entropy Ceramics (recording)
  • Tengfei Luo, University of Notre Dame, USA
    • Title: Simulation for Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Simulation in Thermal Science (recording)
  • Ryo Yoshida, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
    • Title: Advances in Polymer Informatics: Challenges and Potentials
  • Eric Toberer, Colorado School of Mines, USA
    • Title: Controlling Thermal Conductivity through Native Defects, Extrinsic Dopants, and Alloying in Thermoelectric Materials (recording)
  • Sanghamitra Neogi, University of Colorado – Boulder, USA
    • Title: From Atoms to Devices: Bridging the Gap with Physics-Informed Machine Learning Models (recording)

After-Session Event

US time zones: 7-7:45 pm PT, 10-10:45 pm ET; Japan time: 11-11:45 am

• Social hour in Gather.Town

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Day 3. March 24 (US) / March 25 (Japan) Seminar Session (Chairs: Junko Marikawa, Masato Ohnishi)

US time zones: 4-7 pm PT, 7-10 pm ET; Japan time: 8-11 am

• General Talk 3 – Koji Tsuda, University of Tokyo, Japan (30 mins)

  • Title: Automatic Design of Functional Molecules: Black-Box Optimization and Curiosity-Based Sampling (recording)

• Theme 3: Al-Driven Experiments (60 mins)

  • Taro Hitosugi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    • Title: Autonomous Materials Synthesis by Machine Learning and Robotics (recording)
  • Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    • Title: Functional Materials by Design – Data and Automated Labs (recording)

• Theme 4: Quantum Computing (90 mins)

  • Keisuke Fujii, Osaka University, Japan
    • Title: Quantum Computing: State of The Art and Prospects (recording)
  • Ryo Tamura, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
    • Title: Materials Design by Black-box Optimization with Quantum Annealer (recording)
  • Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology, USA
    • Title: Low Noise Transistor Microwave Amplifiers for Quantum Computing (recording)

After-Session Event

US time zones: 7-7:45 pm PT, 10-10:45 pm ET; Japan time: 11-11:45 am

• Social hour in Gather.Town

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Day 4. March 25 (US) / March 26 (Japan)

US time zones: 4-5 pm PT, 7-8 pm ET; Japan time: 8-9 am

• Discussion Session: Future Collaboration Opportunities

 

US time zones:  5-7 pm PT, 8-10 pm ET; Japan time: 9-11 am

• Poster session (Gather.Town)