Working Conference on Materials and Data Analysis, March 27-30, 2017

03/27/2017 3:34 pm - 03/30/2017 3:34 pm

The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a 5-day working Conference on Materials and Data Analysis and related areas, March 27-30, 2017.  The conference will be hosted in Room G10 of the CMSA Building located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Photos of the event can be found on CMSA’s Blog.

 Participants:

Organizers:

* This event is sponsored by CMSA Harvard University.

Schedule:

Monday, March 27

Time Speaker Title
8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine Background in DFT and electronic structure calculations
10:00am – 11:00am Kieron Burke, University of California, Irvine

The density functionals machines can learn

11:00am – 12:00pm Sadasivan Shankar, Harvard University A few key principles for applying Machine Learning to Materials (or Complex Systems) — Scientific and Engineering Perspectives

Tuesday, March 28

Time Speaker Title
8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am Ryan Adams, Harvard TBA
10:00am – 11:00am Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge

Interatomic potentials using machine learning: accuracy, transferability and chemical diversity

11:00am – 1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm – 2:00pm Evan Reed, Stanford University TBA

 Wednesday, March 29 

Time Speaker Title
8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am Patrick Riley, Google The Message Passing Neural Network framework and its application to molecular property prediction
10:00am – 11:00am Jörg Behler, University of Göttingen TBA
11:00am – 12:00pm Ekin Doğuş Çubuk, Stanford Univers TBA
4:00pm Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy

CMSA Colloquium

Thursday, March 30

Time Speaker Title
8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am Matthias Rupp, Fitz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society TBA
10:00am – 11:00am Petros Koumoutsakos, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard TBA
11:00am – 1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm – 2:00pm Dennis Sheberla, Harvard University Rapid discovery of functional molecules by a high-throughput virtual screening