Program: Agenda

Program

Pre-Conference Workshops & PI Strategy SessionsTuesday, August 30

12:00 PM
Registration and Lunch
Bahen Atrium
1:00 PM
  • PI Strategy Session (part 1)
    Open to PIs only
    Bahen, Room 1170
  • ChemOS Workshop (part 1)
    Riley Hickman
    Bahen, Room 1160
  • Professional Development Workshops

    • Communicating Science
      Dan Falk
    • Intellectual Property
      Karen Temple
    • Entrepreneurship
      Jon French
    Bahen, Room 1130
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
Bahen Atrium
3:30 PM
  • PI Strategy Session (part 2)
    Open to PIs only
    Bahen, Room 1170
  • ChemOS Workshop (part 2)
    Riley Hickman
    Bahen, Room 1160
  • NRCan Workshop
    Anjuli Szawiola
    Bahen, Room 1130
5:30 PM Adjourn for the day

Accelerate Conference Day 1Wednesday, August 31

Posters will also be available for
viewing throughout the day

9:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
Myhal Atrium
9:45 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Leah Cowen, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Myhal Auditorium
10:00 AM

Opening Keynote

Talk
Building an AI Ecosystem
Jordan Jacobs

Panel
Jordan Jacobs, Alan Bernstein, Leah Cowen, Garth Gibson

Myhal Auditorium
11:00 AM
Coffee Break & Travel Time
Bahen Atrium
11:30 AM

Concurrent Sessions

  • Methods in Machine Learning, Data Analysis, and Modeling

    • XAI in Chemistry
      Johannes Hachmann
    • Synthesis predictions of molecules and crystals
      Yousung Jung
    • Quantum machine learning
      Anatole von Lilienfeld
    • General-Purpose Robots in the Chemistry Lab: Learning to Plan, Perceive, and Manipulate
      Florian Shkurti
    • Delving into Trust and Interpretability of Materials AI
      Jason Hattrick-Simpers
    Bahen, Room 1130
  • Discoveries Facilitated by AI/Automation (Part 1)

    • Battery informatics and lifetime prediction
      Shijing Sun
    • Tough Materials by Design by Putting a Robot in the Design Loop
      Keith Brown
    • Machine learning for materials discovery
      Pascal Friederich
    • Accelerating materials innovation and understanding through scientific machine learning for structural characterization
      Brian DeCost
    • Towards digital twins in materials discovery and production
      Thomas Heine
    Bahen, Room 1160
12:45 PM
Lunch & Poster Viewing
Myhal Atrium
2:00 PM

Concurrent Sessions

  • Methods in Laboratory Automation

    • Towards Robot Alchemist: Learning to See Glass
      Animesh Garg
    • Research Acceleration by Self-Driving Fluidic Labs
      Milad Abolhasani
    • Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials using Intelligent Robotic Systems
      Gabriella Pizzuto
    • From Atoms to Machines: Microscopy as a Platform to Accelerate Materials Innovation
      Mitra Taheri
    Bahen, Room 1130
  • Discoveries Facilitated by AI/Automation (part 2)

    • Autonomous Platform (Polybot) for Electronic Polymers Discovery
      Jie Xu
    • TBA
      Eugenia Kumacheva
    • Combining Modeling and AI to Accelerate Materials Characterization
      Maria Chan
    • Developing A Machine Learning Framework for Uncovering Materials Interactions with Biological Tissues
      Frank Gu
    Bahen, Room 1160
  • Special Session: Schmidt Futures/Cell Press (part 1)

    • Biologic Formulation in a Self-Driving Biomaterials Lab
      Adam Gormley
    • Scanning Probes as a Materials Automation Platform with Extremely Miniaturized Samples
      Keith Brown
    • Physical Computing & Materials Acceleration Platforms
      Alexander Lavin
    Bahen, Room 1170
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
Bahen Atrium
3:15 PM

Concurrent Sessions: Discovery

  • Discoveries in Energy

    • Accelerating Design of Polymer Electrolytes using MD Simulations
      Ha-Kyung Kwon
    • Accelerating the Discovery of New Halide Perovskites with Robotics and Machine Learning
      Joshua Schrier
    Bahen, Room 1130
  • Discoveries Facilitated by AI/Automation (part 3)

    • Learning to engineer thermally sprayed functional coatings
      Ali Dolatabadi
    • Ultrabright Electrons Light Up High Throughput Structure Determination
      Towards True Lab-on-a-Chip Chemistry
      Dwayne Miller
    • Discovering and validating new odorous molecules
      Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling
    • Enabling autonomous decisionmaking in drug discovery
      John Chodera
    Bahen, Room 1160
  • Special Session: Schmidt Futures/Cell Press (part 2)

    • What is a minimal working example of a materials acceleration platform
      Sterling Baird
    • Reproducible Sorbent Materials for Carbon Capture at Scale
      Austin McDannald
    • A catalyst acceleration platform towards realizing the energy transition
      Alexander Hammer
    Bahen, Room 1170
4:14 PM
Travel Time
4:30 PM
Poster Viewing + Reception
Myhal Atrium
6:30 PM Adjourn for the day
6:30 PM

Conference Social Event

Open to those pre-registered for the social event. Dinner will be provided, followed by a salsa dance performance.

A shuttle will run from Myhal to Lula Lounge for the Social Event approximately every 30 mins starting at 6:15 PM

Accelerate Conference Day 2Thursday, September 1

Posters will also be available for
viewing throughout the day

9:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast
Myhal Atrium
9:45 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Padraic Foley
Myhal Auditorium
10:00 AM
Accelerating emerging PV technologies
Christoph Brabec
Myhal Auditorium
10:30 AM
Coffee Break & Travel Time
Bahen Atrium
11:00 AM

Concurrent Sessions: Best Practices

  • Talk
    Managing Data for Accelerated Discovery

    • Harnessing Reaction Data Across Substrates – Towards Rational Design of Catalyst Screens
      Richard Walroth
    • Role of Benchmarking and Open Source
      Deval Pandya

    Panel
    Bringing MAP Technology to Scale
    Caroline Cloutier, Richard Walroth, Bradley Schmidt, Deval Pandya

    Bahen, Room 1130
  • Talk
    Designing Labs of the Future: What’s the blueprint for self-driving labs?

    • Self Driving Labs for the Discovery and Optimization of Functional Films
      Curtis Berlinguette
    • TBA
      Benji Maruyama

    Panel
    Designing Labs of the Future: What’s the blueprint for self-driving labs?
    Benji Maruyama, Jason Hein, Curtis Berlinguette, Michelle Murphy

    Bahen, Room 1160
12:30 PM
Lunch & Poster Viewing
Myhal Atrium
2:00 PM

Concurrent Sessions: Beyond the Bench

  • Talk
    Teaching new fields of science

    • TBA
      Chandra Singh, Zamyla Chan
    • MAPs: A World of Learning
      Mark Kozdras

    Panel
    How to train the next generation
    Helen Tran, Lilo Pozzo, Wil de Vega, Chandra Singh

    Bahen, Room 1130
  • Talk
    From lab to market

    • Accelerating Translation from Lab to Market
      Kedar Hippalgaonkar

    Panel
    How to commercialize materials-on-demand
    Joshua Gans, Kedar Hippalgaonkar, Adrienne Clement, Ben Alston

    Bahen, Room 1160
3:30 PM
Coffee Break + Travel Time
Bahen Atrium
4:00 PM

Closing Keynote

Opportunities in AI-driven and high-throughput soft matter research
Lilo Pozzo

Vision for a Materially Different Future
Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Myhal Auditorium
5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Zamyla Chan
Myhal Auditorium
5:15 PM Adjourn for the day

Accelerate Un-ConferenceFriday, September 2

Curious to learn more, email us.

During the un-conference, the script is flipped! Attendees are welcome to brainstorm meeting and discussion ideas for the final day of the conference. As ideas emerge for Unconference themes throughout the conference, share them on the collective whiteboard. This is an opportunity to meet with collaborators old and new, have a write-a-thon on white papers, hack a programming project, brainstorm new projects and initiatives, and more.

Visit slido.com and enter the code ACCEL (not case-sensitive) into the code field or scan the QR code on this page to submit session topics on any of the first 3 days of the conference. Topics will be organized after the closing keynote and posted Friday morning for the informal sessions.

10:00 AM
Registration
Bahen Atrium
11:00 AM
Informal Workshops
Bahen, Rooms 1130, 1160, 1170
12:00 PM
Lunch
Bahen Atrium
12:30 PM
Informal Workshops (continued)
Bahen, Rooms 1130, 1160, 1170
2:00 PM Conference Adjourns