From August 23 to 26, at the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE, Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh), the international conference "Materials informatics: Accelerating research and design of new materials with artificial intelligence".
The event was organized by Meet Vietnam Science Association, ICISE and VinUni University, attracting more than 60 experts, scientists and graduate students from 9 countries around the world.
Among the attending delegates, many speakers are reputable faces in the fields that the conference is interested in such as Professor. Claudia Draxl (Humboldt University, Germany); Professor David Winkler (Monash University, Australia); Professor. Ryo Yoshida (Tokyo Institute of Statistical Science, Japan); Professor Hongbin Zhang (Darmstadt Technical University, Germany); Professor. Kanta Ono (Osaka University, Japan); Professor. Truong Nguyen Thanh (University of Utah, USA); Vice Rector of VinUni University, Professor. Laurent El Ghaoui…
According to the announcement from the conference organizers, materials informatics is a new science, developed in the early 2010s with the goal of exploiting the capabilities of AI for important, specific problems of materials science. material.
While traditional methods rely largely on personal experience, formulas, semi-empirical models, and the process of developing and optimizing materials takes a lot of time, materials informatics aims to increase This process accelerates when the materials database becomes large enough and AI techniques are developed enough to understand the data.
Developing materials informatics has become a national strategy for many developed countries in the 2010s, such as the US with the "Materials Gene Initiative" announced in 2011, and the European Union with the "Materials Gene Action Plan". ” in 2015 or Japan with “Strategy for integrating information science into materials research” in 2016.
This conference aims to introduce and promote a still new scientific field in Vietnam. The presentations focused on 4 important topic groups: Basic issues of materials informatics; basic infrastructure of materials informatics, accelerating research methods of materials science and speeding up the qualification process, towards reverse engineering of materials according to specific needs.
