Support for Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) Accelerator Network Workshop; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, Georgia; June 5-6, 2014

该奖项为研讨会提供部分支持，汇集了来自学术界，政府和工业界的各种社区专家，以探索全国各大学的主要材料基因组计划（MGI）活动的整合，并通过全体演讲者和海报了解正在进行的重要MGI研究。材料基因组计划是一项多机构计划，旨在创造一个政策，资源和基础设施的新时代，支持美国机构以两倍的速度发现，制造和部署先进材料，成本仅为一小部分。研讨会期间提出的想法将为制定整合MGI活动的路线图提供基础。这将推动材料科学和工程的发展。由于先进材料对经济安全和人类福祉至关重要，因此该研讨会将更广泛地满足社会需求。该研讨会有助于建立一个网络，以整合与MGI相关的正在进行的和未来的活动。研讨会将于2014年6月5日至6日在格鲁吉亚亚特兰大的格鲁吉亚理工学院举行。MGI在工业、政府和大学利益相关者之间发起了广泛的讨论，讨论加速材料发现和开发及其融入产品所需的数字数据、计算和实验。MGI的既定目标是加快从发现到部署的过程，“时间减半，成本减半”。“然而，实现这一目标的努力往往局限于特定机构，导致在整合努力以实现协同增效、采用最佳做法和避免重复方面面临重大挑战。与这些挑战相关，白宫科技政策办公室在MGI成立两周年之际，于2013年6月宣布了一项由格鲁吉亚理工学院、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和密歇根大学联合组织的倡议，开始全国对话，讨论建立国家规模的材料发现、开发和部署“加速器网络”的前景。这样的加速器网络将支持MGI的目标，即通过行业、政府和大学利益相关者之间的合作，大大缩短发现、开发和部署材料所需的时间。这项活动的优点在于它有可能导致更有效和更有效地将全国各机构的科学和工程进步纳入社区，从而在减少从发现材料到将其部署在产品中的时间方面取得更快的进展。

This award provides partial support for a workshop to bring together a diverse group of community experts from academia, government, and industry to explore the integration of major Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) activities in various universities across the nation and to learn about important ongoing MGI research through plenary speakers and posters on major MGI-related themes. The Materials Genome Initiative is a multi-agency initiative designed to create a new era of policy, resources, and infrastructure that support U.S. institutions in the effort to discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost. Ideas developed during the workshop will provide the foundation to develop a roadmap for integrating MGI activities. This will advance the science and engineering of materials. Since advanced materials are essential to economic security and human well-being, this workshop contributes more broadly to the needs of society. This workshop contributes to building a network to integrate ongoing and future activities associated with the MGI. The workshop will be held June 5-6, 2014 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. The MGI has launched a broad discussion among industry, government and university stakeholders on digital data, computation, and experiments necessary to accelerate the discovery and development of materials and their incorporation into products. The stated MGI goal is to speed up the process from discovery to deployment, in "half the time at half the cost." However, efforts to achieve this goal are often localized in specific institutions leading to major challenges in integrating efforts to achieve synergies, employ best practices, and avoid duplication. Related to these challenges, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in conjunction with the 2nd anniversary of the MGI, announced in June 2013 an initiative organized jointly by Georgia Tech, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Michigan to begin a national dialogue regarding prospects for establishing a national scale "Accelerator Network" for materials discovery, development, and deployment. Such an Accelerator Network would support MGI goals of significantly reducing the timeframe required to discover, develop, and deploy materials through collaborative efforts among industry, government, and university stakeholders. The merit of this activity lies in its potential to lead to more efficient and effective incorporation of scientific and engineering advances from institutions across the nation leading into the community leading to more rapid progress on the effort to decrease the time from the discovery of a material to its deployment in products.