*CALL FOR POSTERS*

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The Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design Inaugural Symposium

3-4 September 2018, Liverpool UK

Developing new high-performance materials is critical to enable next-generation technologies for society. New systematic and effective approaches to this problem are required given the slow pace with which new materials have traditionally been discovered when relying on serendipity and chemical intuition. The complexity and the multi-scale nature of the relationships between material's structure and its properties makes the design of a material with given properties one of grand scientific challenges of our times. The Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design is moving this forward by fusing leading-edge synthesis concepts from the physical sciences with ideas from the forefront of computer science, alongside experts in robotics, engineering, management and social science. This symposium brings together experts across different scientific disciplines united by the common goal of accelerating materials discovery to discuss important themes such as grand challenges, the integration of computation and experiment, algorithms, and high throughput methods.

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The Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design invites researchers to submit poster presentations for its inaugural Symposium. Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on are encouraged on (but are not limited to) the following topics:

- Integration of computational experiments

- High throughput methods / machine learning

- Algorithms

- Grand Challenges in Materials Design

KEY DATES

Poster submission deadline: 25 May 18, 2018* Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: End of June 2018 at the latest

* Paper Submission Deadline: 25 May, 2018

* Notification of Acceptance: 29 June, 2018

* Early Registration Closes: 1 July, 2018

* Conference: 3-4 September, 2018

SUBMISSION

Please submit your abstract through: https://form.jotformeu.com/80442455331349

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 300 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters presentation session will take place over an extended lunchtime session and posters will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Poster abstracts will appear in the symposium proceedings.

REGISTRATION

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by 31 July, 2018. The registration fee for accepted poster presenters is reduced: 90 GBP. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings, lunches, conference dinner, coffee breaks).

We hope that LRC Symposium will be of interest to you and your colleagues and we look forward to your participation in the conference.

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Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design

Room 0.28, 2nd Floor

The Materials Innovation Factory

Department of Chemistry University of Liverpool

51 Oxford Road

Liverpool

L7 3NY

W: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/leverhulme-research-centre/ 

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