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Materials Informatics Workshop
| Event: | Inaugural Australian Materials Informatics Workshop | |
| Date: | November 14, 2006 | |
| Time: | 9am - 6pm | |
| Venue: | Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Building 75, University of Queensland |  View Map |
Workshop Overview
Materials informatics is a cross-disciplinary field which combines materials science and information management to expedite the understanding and discovery of new materials, technologies and processes. Whilst informatics is well established in fields such as biology, astronomy and social sciences, it is still in its infancy in the materials domain. Materials researchers need to catch up with other scientific communities who are advancing their fields through modern informatics, advanced computing and improvements in networking and storage.
Applying new information, computing and network technologies to the capture, storage, interpretation, analysis, sharing and assimilation of materials data has the potential to significantly accelerate the discovery and design of new materials. In addition, new collaborative technologies are enabling teams of materials scientists to work together, interactively sharing instruments, data and models in secure environments.
The aim of this one-day workshop is to promote and discuss the field of materials informatics within the Australian materials research community. More specifically the workshop will:- Bring key international players in the field to Australia to present the state of the art in materials informatics globally:
- Prof Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University, Combinatorial Materials Science & Materials Informatics Lab
- Prof Laura Bartolo, Materials Informatics Lab, Kent State University
- Prof Mikk Lippmaa, Dept of Advanced Materials Science, University Of Tokyo
- Increase awareness and knowledge of the potential and importance of materials informatics technologies to the Australian materials research community and in particular to early career researchers and research students
- Increase awareness of relevant international standards and standardization initiatives for representing and exchanging materials data (e.g., MatML)
- Increase awareness of available relevant databases on materials properties for accessing and disseminating research data (e.g., ICSD, NMC MatDB, FactSage, MTDATA etc)
- Present case studies that demonstrate the capabilities and potential of existing and emerging information technologies for representing, parsing, storing, sharing, managing and analysing materials data
- Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge related to materials informatics
- Facilitate new national and international partnerships and multidisciplinary collaborations between researchers and experts in materials science and information technology
- Encourage the sharing and exchange of materials data as well as expertise and technologies across disciplines, institutions and research groups both nationally and internationally
Program:
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Chair: John Drennan, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis |
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| 9.00 - 9.10 | Opening | Prof. Stephen Walker Executive Dean, EPSA Faculty University of Queensland |
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| 9.10 - 9.20 | Introduction and Overview | Prof. John Drennan Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis |
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| 9.20 - 10.00 | Keynote: "Realizing the Potential of Materials Informatics"
(CoSMIC homepage) |
Prof. Krishna Rajan Iowa State University |
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| 10.00 - 10.30 | Morning Tea | ||
Chair: Graham Schaffer, School of Engineering, University of Queensland |
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| 10.30 - 11.15 | Keynote: Standards for Representing and Exchanging Materials Data (MatDL Homepage) | Prof Laura Bartolo Kent State University |
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| 11.15 - 12.00 | Applying Emerging eResearch Technologies to Materials Science | Prof. Jane Hunter School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of Queensland |
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| 12.00 - 12.30 | Lessons learnt from BioInformatics | Prof. Mark Ragan Institute for Molecular Bioscience |
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| 12.30 - 1.30 | Lunch | ||
Chair: Alasdair McDowall, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis |
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| 1.30 - 2.15 | The COMET project and Materials Informatics in Japan (COMET Homepage) | Prof. Mikk Lippmaa Dept of Advanced Materials Science, University Of Tokyo |
EXE |
| 2.15 - 2.45 | Applying Materials Informatics to the Design of Light Metals | Prof Barry Muddle CoE in Design in Light Metals |
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| 2.45 - 3.30 | The FUSION project - Optimization of Fuel Cells through Materials Informatics (FUSION Project Homepage) | Prof. John Drennan Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis |
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| 3.30 - 4.00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
Chair: Jane Hunter, School of ITEE, University of Queensland |
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| 4.00 - 4.30 | Establishing the Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Materials Research in Australia | Dr Mike Sargent NCRIS and e-Research Coordinating Commitee |
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| 4.30 - 4.45 | An ARC Perspective on Materials Informatics | Dr Ian Mackinnon ARC Executive Director Engineering and Environmental Science |
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| 4.45 - 5.00 | Closing Remarks | Prof. Jane Hunter School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of Queensland |
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| 5.00 - 6.00 | Drinks | ||
Professor Krishna Rajan
Professor Krishna Rajan is the Richard H. and Mary Jo Stanley Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering. He is on the Faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and holds an appointment in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at Iowa State University. He is director of the National Science Foundation's International Materials Institute for the Combinatorial Sciences and Materials Informatics Collaboratory - an international research and education centre promoting the use of informatics and combinatorial experimentation for materials discovery and design. He has established the first major educational and research initiative at a major US university in the field of materials informatics. His group is engaged in applying materials informatics to a wide range of applications, including combinatorial experimentation of catalysts; design of new ceramic chemistries for hard materials and high throughput screening of molecular structure in bio-polymers, to mention a few. In addition to his work in materials informatics, Dr. Rajan is an expert in high-resolution electron and atom-probe microscopy and the nanostructural characterization of materials use, with additional research interests in the microstructural evolution of materials. His work includes the use of informatics techniques in developing quantitative tools for imaging and spectroscopy.
Professor Laura Bartolo
Professor Laura Bartolo is director of the Materials Informatics Lab at Kent State University. She is also a CI on the Materials Digital Library (MatDL) project and the MatDL pathway consortium. The focal points of her research are: 1) generation of digital resources within collaborative multidisciplinary, multi-institutional scientific enterprises specifically related to materials science and 2) information infrastructures that facilitate the exchange of new knowledge from the laboratory to the classroom and to industry. Multidisicplinary, multi-institutional scientific enterprise represent a key fertile area to examine information structures and effective dissemination/exchange mechanisms because of its prolific use of emerging information technology, its generation of heterogeneous data, and its impact on research, education, and technology transfer. Her work has focused on: 1) construction of models for managing very large materials science archives that store simulation and experimental data to support multidisciplinary collaboration; and 2) development and application of domain specific metadata, terminology, and ontologies that enable end-users to find, access, and re-use relevant research output as well as to know how the data was generated.
Associate Professor Mikk Lippmaa
Mikk Lippmaa is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. He received his doctorate degree from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1995. Since then he has worked at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the National Institute for Materials Science, developing the pulsed laser ablation technique for combinatorial synthesis of transition-metal oxide thin films. As part of the combinatorial solid-state synthesis project, Associate Professor Lippmaa has developed an on-line data management system for collecting, storing, and distributing raw and processed experimental data. His current interests involve thin film crystal growth, thin film growth methods, process control, and materials informatics.
Contact
- Jill Lumsdale, Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis (UQ)
- Email: j.lumsdale@uq.edu.au
- Phone: +61 (0)7 33463990