Data Driven Materials Design - Symposium at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society in Dresden (19-24 March 2017)

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium 'Data Driven Materials Design' at the Spring meeting of the German Physical Society in Dresden, Germany (19-24 March 2017).

Today more and more easily accessible data is available than only a few years ago. This comprises results from combinatorial or automated experiments as well as data from high-throughput calculations or information stored in thermodynamic, chemical and physical databases. The availability of big data has established data science as a new focus in materials physics with the overarching aim of developing new materials faster and more efficiently than it was possible before. The symposium will review the current state of the art of data in the field of materials science. Topics that will be addressed and where abstracts are welcome are:

• Generation, organization, and integration of data from various experimental and computational sources
• Characterization, curation and error analysis of available data
• Development of models and materials from data
• Coverage of all length and time scales relevant for materials science

The symposium will consist of invited and contributed talks and a poster session. Contributions should highlight the importance of data for progress in materials science by providing best practice examples, by addressing open questions, by contributing to method development or similar.

Invited Speakers
•    Igor Abrikosov (Linkoping University)
•    Bill Curtin (EPFL)
•    Martin Friak (Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno)
•    Alfred Ludwig (Bochum)
•    Roger Reed (Oxford)

Abstract submission
To submit an abstract visit http://dresden17.dpg-tagungen.de/programm/abstract.html?set_language=en&cl=en and choose “MM: Metal and Material Physics Division”, then select on the next page as topic: “Topical Session: Data Driven Materials Design”.

Looking forward to an exciting meeting in Dresden,
Ralf Drautz and Jörg Neugebauer