About the Workshop

The AI for Accelerated Materials Discovery (AI4Mat) Workshop at BOKU University in Vienna provides an inclusive and collaborative platform where AI researchers and material scientists converge to tackle the cutting-edge challenges in AI-driven materials discovery and development. Our goal is to foster a vibrant exchange of ideas, breaking down barriers between disciplines and encouraging insightful discussions among experts from diverse disciplines and curious newcomers to the field. The workshop embraces a broad definition of materials design encompassing matter in various forms, such as crystalline and amorphous solid-state materials, glasses, molecules, nanomaterials, and devices. By taking a comprehensive look at automated materials discovery spanning AI-guided design, synthesis and automated material characterization, we hope to create an opportunity for deep, thoughtful discussion among researchers working on these interdisciplinary topics, and highlight ongoing challenges in the field.

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AI4Mat was first held at NeurIPS 2022, bringing together materials scientists and AI researchers into a common forum with productive discussion on major research challenges. AI4Mat-2023 at last year’s NeurIPS AI4Mat doubled the number of submissions and attendees, showing the growing interest and community of this emerging field. While AI4Mat-Vienna is not officially affiliated with ICML, AI4Mat-Vienna is organized to coincide with the conference, enabling participants from around the world to engage in productive discussions on the major research challenges in this emerging field.

AI4Mat-Vienna workshop will focus on two themes:

ML Potentials Across Multiple Scales: The multi-scale nature of materials science, spanning atomic, nanostructure, meso, and continuum scales, necessitates in-depth discussions on this topic with leading researchers. Speakers to be announced soon.
Materials Design With Real-World Data: The emergence of AI foundation models has demonstrated the importance of scale in data, model capacity, and compute to develop truly transformational technologies. We will explore how combining AI, materials science, and multi-modal "real-world" data can lead to impactful breakthroughs. Speakers to be announced soon.

The workshop, held in parallel with the main ICML conference, will take place in-person on July 27th, 2024, at the BOKU University in Vienna. Whether you are a materials scientist, AI researcher, or industry professional, join us at AI4Mat to be part of the conversation shaping the future of materials discovery in this new era of AI.

Registration

Please register for AI4Mat-Vienna 2024 using this event link: https://partiful.com/e/P0QKyEerk7vm2Fv4YR5A

Due to limited venue capacity, the program committee will review registrations on a rolling basis and notify participants based on workshop capacity. To help cover the costs of the workshop, we will be collecting registration fees the day of the workshop. Workshop registration includes lunch and refreshments served throughout the day. The registration fees are:

General Admission: 35 Euros
Poster Presenter: 30 Euros
Spotlight Presenter: 25 Euros

Cash is preferred; PayPal will accepted.

Please register on or before July 10th to secure your spot. Don't miss the opportunity to connect with experts and peers shaping the future of AI in materials science. We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!

Submission

Peer Review Track: Spotlights & Peer-Reviewed, Non-Archival Submissions:

Check our submissions page for instructions on how to submit through OpenReview.
Accepted peer-reviewed submissions will be invited to present a poster at the workshop and posted on the workshop webiste for non-archival records. Some peer-reviewed submissions will be invited to give a spotlight talk.
The deadline for peer reviewed submission passed on June 20th, 2024.

Abstracts Track:

We are excited to announce the introduction of a new Abstract Track to our workshop which we hope will broaden participation and include a wider range of ideas from ongoing research. Unlike with peer-reviewed paper submissions, participants to the abstract track can submit a 1-page abstract by July 12th for the chance to present a poster at the workshop in Vienna. With this new track, we aim to facilitate the inclusion of early-stage research, works-in-progress, and novel ideas that may not yet have developed into full papers. In addition, poster presenters will receive a registration discount for the workshop as described above. Note that, as these works will not be peer-reviewed, applications to the abstract track will not be eligible for spotlight talks. To submit your abstract:

Draft a 1-page abstract describing the technical content of your research and how it fits into the major themes of AI4Mat. Feel free to reference the submissions page for more details. Make sure to include all authors and their affiliations in the abstract.
Send your abstract to the workshop email (ai4mat@googlegroups.com) and include "Abstract Submission" in the subject line. If you have a draft of the poster you plan to present, we encourage you to send it as well.
Deadline for sending your abstract and registering for the workshop is July 12th, 2024.

Following your abstract submission, the program will perform an editorial review of your abstract and communicate the final decision along with additional relevant details. We hope this new addition will help shape a more diverse and dynamic environment for discussing ideas, and encourage maybe lead to new exciting research collaborations!