Conference: WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITIES AND INSTRUMENTATION NEEDS FOR NEXT GENERATION MATERIALS GENOMICS BASED MATERIALS RESEARCH IN MATERIALS WITH LONG RANGE ORDER

该奖项支持一个拟议的研讨会，将来自材料科学、合成和表征领域的有远见的人聚集在一起，探索第五种科学范式的出现所提供的科学机会：人工智能和数据支持的发现，以及自动化和自主的实验。背景是在当前材料基因组倡议战略计划的框架内发现材料，以确定必须克服的技术、经济和社会学挑战，并提出一条使美国在这一新兴领域超越和领先的前进道路。研讨会的产品将是研讨会材料档案、共识报告和一篇总结会议动机和调查结果的面向公众的期刊文章。本次会议的重点将限于被描述为具有长期有序的材料，但更具体地说，以块状晶体、外延薄膜、二维材料、量子材料和范德华材料为例的材料，但不包括将在另外两个相关研讨会中讨论的软材料或结构材料。研讨会将探讨在美国社会发展第五代材料发现科学研究所需的具体步骤。这项活动的学术价值是识别早期的科学机会，并制定出需要进行哪些投资、组织、官僚机构、教育和培训，以便美国材料界利用这些新出现的机会。它将产生报告和期刊文章，阐述社区目前对机会和需求的理解，并就如何向前推进提出愿景，重点放在短期可采取行动的项目上。加速发现和采用新材料可能会给所有人带来变革性的好处。这项拟议活动的一个更广泛的影响是为大大加快材料发现能力奠定基础。第五代科学研究本质上是一种多研究者、多专业、多学科融合的研究活动。研讨会还将确定如何开发、培训和留住多样化的未来劳动力，以便在这种合作环境中运营。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a proposed workshop to bring together visionaries from Materials Science synthesis and characterization fields to explore scientific opportunities offered by the emergence of the 5th paradigm of science: AI and data enabled discovery with automation and autonomation of experiments. The context is materials discovery within the framework of the current Materials Genome Initiative strategic plan, to identify the technological, economic, and sociological challenges that will have to be overcome, and propose a path forward that will allow the US to excel and lead in this emerging area. Products of the workshop will be archives of the workshop materials, a consensus report, and a public facing journal article that summarizes the motivation and findings coming from the meeting. The focus of this meeting will be limited to materials described as having long-range order, but more specifically materials exemplified by bulk crystals, epitaxial films, 2-dimensional materials, Quantum Materials, and Van der Waals materials, but not soft materials or structural materials that will be covered in two other related workshops. The workshop will explore concrete steps needed to enable the development of 5th generation scientific research in materials discovery in the US community. The intellectual merit of the activity is to identify early scientific opportunities and map out what investments, organizations, bureaucracies, education, and training, that need to be put into place for the US materials community to take advantage of these emerging opportunities. It will result in reports and journal articles that lay out the current understanding of the community on opportunities and needs and a vision for how this could move forward with an emphasis on short-term actionable items. Accelerating the discovery and adoption of new materials provides potentially transformative benefits to all people. A broader impact of this proposed activity is to build foundations for greatly accelerated materials discovery capabilities. 5th-Generation scientific research is an inherently multi-investigator, multi-expertise, multi-discipline convergent research activity. The workshop will also be to identify how to develop, train, and retain a diverse future workforce for operating in this teaming environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.