Program 2024

October 10th, 2024

Hosts: Prof. Dr. Karin Everschor-Sitte, Prof. Dr. Doris Segets, Prof. Dr. Torben Weis

Sessions with tandems formed by an academic and an industry speaker, 20 minutes each, followed by 10 minutes Q+A; two Keynote Talks from Academia and Industry at the end

Language: English

8:30 Arrival and registration | Welcoming coffee

09:00 – 09:45 | Welcome and Scientific Keynote

The Underestimated Revolution: On the transformative power of AI and our struggle to understand it

Prof. Dr. Frederik Ahlemann
Information Systems and Strategic IT Management, University of Duisburg-Essen

09:45 – 10:45 | Session I. Data Storage, Acquisition and Quality

FAIR Research Data Management in Materials Science with FAIRmat and NOMAD

Dr. Ahmed Mansour
Coordinator “User Support, Training and Outreach” NFDI FAIRmat, Humboldt University of Berlin

Anchoring AI solutions for customers in manufacturing companies

Dr. Dagmar Dirzus
Vice President AI & Platform Business, KROHNE Messtechnik

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 | Session II. Materials Processes: From Automation to Autonomous

Machine Learning Methods Applied to Emerging Solar Cell Research

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirchartz
Chair of “Electrical Engineering and Information Technology” at Universität Duisburg-Essen, head of department “Analytics and Simulation” at Research Centre Jülich

Enhanced experimental workflows for providing industrially relevant data to accelerated materials R&D

Florian Huber
hte GmbH – the high throughput experimentation company

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break and Poster-Session

13:00 – 14:00 | Session III. Materials Informatics

Generative microstructure reconstruction and generation via stable diffusion

Yixuan Zhang
Theory of magnetic Materials, TU Darmstadt

Accelerating materials design with AI emulators and generators

Dr. Tian Xie
Microsoft Research AI4Science (recorded talk)

14:00 – 15:00 | Industry Keynote

How can artificial intelligence make specialty chemicals smarter and faster?

Dr. Henrik Hahn
Chief Digital Officer, Evonik