Agenda

Wednesday, March 4th: Evening Reception

• 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Evening Reception/Dinner

• Elephant & Castle (1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC)

Thursday, March 5th: Day 1 – Framing the Challenge & Working Groups

• 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Networking Breakfast

• 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Welcome Remarks and Workshop Objectives

• Speakers: Tengfei Luo & Brett Savoie (Notre Dame hosts) + Junichiro Shiomi (Japanese representative)

• 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM | Stakeholder Perspectives Panel (25 min presentations + 25 discussion) (moderator: Junichiro Shiomi)

• Panelists: Debra Audus (NIST), Isamu Shigemoto (Daikin), David Eike (P&G), Seiji Takeda (IBM Research), Robert Underwood (ANL)

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 PM | Working Group Charge and Instructions

• Instructor: Nick Jackson (UIUC)

• 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM | Coffee Break

• 10:35 AM – 12:05 AM | Working Group Session I: Building the Digital Foundation: Data Standards & Extraction

• Metadata & Standardization: Experimental Track (moderators: Hisataka Ikebata, CrowdChem; Jodie Lutkenhaus, TAMU)

• Metadata & Standardization: Simulation Track (moderators: Ying Li, University of Wisconsin; Michael Webb, Princeton University)

• Literature Data: Mining the "Graveyard" (moderators: Brad Olsen, MIT; Rocío Mercado Oropeza, Chalmers)

• 12:05 PM – 1:00 PM | Networking Lunch

• 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Working Group I Reports

• 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Coffee Break

• 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM | Invited Presentations Session I (moderator: Filip Szczypinski)

• PolyOmics: An Omics-Scale Polymer Computational Database Transferable to Real-World Artificial Intelligence Applications (Speaker: Ryo Yoshida, ISM/RIKEN)

• Building an Autonomous Lab for Polymer Innovation (Speaker: Jie Xu, ANL/UChicago)

• 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | Coffee Break

• 3:40 PM – 5:10 PM | Working Group Session II: The Acceleration Engine: AI, Automation, and Synthesis

• AI & Modeling: Foundation Models and Agents (moderators: Meng Jiang, Notre Dame; Seiji Takeda, IBM)

• Automation: Self-Driving Labs and Experimentation (moderators: Masanobu Naito, NIMS; Chanelle Brown, University of Toronto)

• Synthesis: Evaluating Feasibility (moderators: Nick Jackson, UIUC; Alex Zhukhovitskiy, UNC Chapel Hill)

• 5:10 PM – 6:00 PM | Break / Free Time

• 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM | Dinner & Open Mic (Location: workshop room)

Friday, March 6th: Day 2 – Synthesis & Path Forward

• 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Networking Breakfast

• 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Working Group II Reports

• 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | Coffee Break

• 10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Invited Presentations Session II (moderator: Rocío Mercado Oropeza)

• Development of Materials Data Platforms at NIMS: Experiences Including PoLyInfo (Speaker: Demura Masahiko, NIMS)

• Building Polymer Cyberinfrastructure Before the Age of Agents — Lessons Learned and What Comes Next (Speaker: Cate Brison, Duke)

• 11:20 AM – 12:30 PM | Networking Lunch

• 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Working Group Session III: Bridging Realities: Strategy, Simulation, and Community

• Polymer Science: Grand Challenges (moderators: Keiji Numata, Kyoto University; Charles Schroeder, Princeton University )

• Simulations: Bridging to Complex Reality (moderators: Brett Savoie, University of Notre Dame; Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern)

• Partnerships: Academic, Industrial, and International (moderators: Junichiro Shiomi, University of Tokyo; Phil Rauscher, NYU/Synesqo)

• 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Coffee Break

• 2:20 PM – 3:30 PM | Working Group III Reports

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Closing Remarks

• 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Organizers meeting

• 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM | No-Host Dinner

  • Carmine's – Washington DC (425 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20004)