Call for abstracts - Deadline: 16 February 2024

The Materials Science and Engineering Congress (MSE) – the flagship event of the German Materials Society (DGM) – will be held in Darmstadt from 24 to 26 September 2024. With typically more than 1,500 participants, the biannual MSE is one of the largest English-speaking congresses in the field of Material Science and Engineering across Europe. Over the past decades, there has always been a large part of the contributions related to ab initio methods. 

In the frame of Topic D “Digital Transformation” we are organizing the Symposium D03: “Digital Materials: Experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability”. In this symposium, we call for an open discussion and exchange about the recent technical and scientific challenges involved in developing an interoperable representation of materials and (simulation) processes. Among other topics, we welcome contributions that address digital workflows for a structured and unified collection of materials data and simulation protocols. They can connect individual software tools, automatize the storage and curation of final simulation results as well as relevant intermediate steps and can, therewith, ensure the reproducibility of computational procedures. In this way they contribute to a FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) representation of materials data. Another aspect are application ontologies that enhance identification, data integration and fully fledged complex simulation workflows. In this context, in particular workflows based on ab initio methods are highly welcome. 

We invite you to submit an abstract not later than 16 February 2024. All information about the abstract submission is available at: 

https://dgm.de/mse/2024/call-for-abstracts/abstract-submission-management