This grant provides funding to support a workshop focused on Materials by Design. The workshop seeks to share the state-of-the-art in this area as well as identify opportunities for research advancement. It will bring together leaders from academe and industry to identify: critical challenges in materials development, existing and emerging computational and experimental techniques that have the potential to facilitate rational materials design in new ways, and best working practices for collaborative research between industry and universities and understand how they may be exploited to facilitate materials design and the accelerated development of new materials.
The workshop will also involve identifying approaches to storing, sharing, interrogating, and using the increasingly voluminous quantities of data generated by computational and experimental materials research. The organizers will seek the participation of groups underrepresented in science and engineering by leveraging activities with their existing support programs at Brown.
The Materials Genome Initiative Town Meeting was held at the School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island USA, March 29, 2012 Moving advanced materials from the laboratory to the marketplace—to address critical challenges in energy, transportation, healthcare, and other areas of national concern—takes far too long, and at too great a cost. How to accelerate the pace of discovery and deployment of advanced materials was the central question addressed at thisMaterials Genome Initiative (MGI) Town Hall Meeting. Featured speakers and panelists from industry, academia, and federal agencies explored: New materials for automobiles, aerospace, energy conversion/storage, microelectronics, and medical devices Emergent computational and experimental approaches Strategies for sharing, storing, and searching materials data Best practices for industry/university/government collaborations Further details of the meeting can be found at www.brown.edu/conference/mgi-town-meeting/ The 50th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science and the Summer Technical Meeting of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was held at Brown University July28-31, 2013. The Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting is held annually to foster and promote the exchange of ideas and information among the various disciplines of engineering and the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, bioengineering, and related scientific and engineering fields. The ASME Applied Mechanics Summer Conferences are intended to foster an intimate exchange of ideas on all aspects of Mechanics in a relaxed atmosphere. This SES Technical Meeting convened a diverse and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in all engineering, mathematics and science disciplines. Conference sessions included mechanics of structural materials; dynamic behavior of materials; mechanics of thin films, soft and composite materials; nanostructures and microelectronic materials; energy storage and energy harvesting; geomechanics and geololgical materials; computational methods in solid and fluid mechanics; materials design; mechanics of biological materials at tissue, cell and molecular levels; microfluidics; rheology; animal, cell and bacterial mobility; and mechanics education at K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Further details of the meeting are published at www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/
