Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Grantees' Workshop; Arlington, Virginia; September 8 - 10, 2013

这笔赠款资助了一个研讨会，将设计材料支持的研究人员聚集在一起，以革新和设计我们的未来(DMREF)活动。作为NSF对总统材料基因组倡议的回应，DMREF寻求促进材料研究人员在实验、理论和计算方面的密切合作。这些合作建立在高度迭代的反馈回路上，其中实验结果直接告知理论和计算，反之亦然，目的是加速新材料的发现和开发。研讨会将为研究人员提供一个论坛，以分享他们的研究成果，并讨论与建立和维持研究合作、管理数字数据和支持长期模拟软件开发有关的交叉主题。这个新成立的社区可以领导更广泛的材料研究界实施战略，以实现材料基因组计划设定的目标，包括减少将新材料推向市场所需的成本和时间。讲习班将解决研究早期阶段面临的成功和挑战，特别是高度合作的项目，并将有助于巩固新形成的合作。通过陈述和讨论确定的主要主题将在一份报告中提出，以便向更广泛的材料研究社区传播，并将有助于为未来的研究计划提供信息。研讨会将于2013年9月8日至10日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。

This grant funds a workshop to bring together researchers supported by the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) activity. As NSF's response to the President's Materials Genome Initiative, DMREF seeks to foster tight collaborations between materials researchers in experiment, theory, and computation. These collaborations are founded on highly iterative feedback loops in which experimental results directly inform theory and computation, and vice versa, with the goal of accelerating the discovery and development of new materials. The workshop will provide researchers a forum to share their research results and discuss cross-cutting topics related to establishing and sustaining research collaborations, managing digital data, and supporting long-term simulation software development. This nascent community can provide leadership to the broader materials research community in implementing strategies to achieve the goals set out by the Materials Genome Initiative, including reducing both the cost and time it takes to bring a new material to market. The workshop will address both successes and challenges faced at the early stages of research, particularly for highly collaborative projects, and will help solidify newly-formed collaborations. Overarching themes identified through presentations and discussions will be presented in a report for dissemination to the broader materials research community and will help inform future research programs. The workshop will be held in Arlington, Virginia, on September 8-10, 2013.