Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure PSDI Materials Community Workshop

16 - 17 June 2025

Royce Hub Building

Manchester, UK

Programme

Day 1

TimeTitleSpeaker
11:00 - 11:10Welcome & housekeepingHosts
11:10 - 11:25Introduction to PSDIWenkai Zhang
11:25 - 11:50PSDI Metadata and Cross-searchAileen Day
11:50 - 12:20Materials knowledge and data representation with a European ontology ecosystemGerhard Goldbeck
12:20 - 12:45CDIF-4-XAS a semantic framework to facilitate XAS data interoperabilityAbraham Nieva de la Hidalga
12:45 - 12:55Quick-fire panel: Metadata and StandardsSession 1 speakers
13:00 - 13:50Lunch
14:00 - 14:35PSDI ServicesVasily Bunakov
14:35 - 15:00Repository Infrastructure and Reproducible Polymer DataIzzy Cooley & Weiling Wang
15:00 - 15:25datalab: Decentralized materials research data management, curation & dissemination
for accelerated discovery
Matthew Evans
15:30 - 15:45Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15NOMAD: An Extensible Ecosystem for FAIR Research Data ManagementPepe Márquez
16:15 - 16:45Magres Database for the solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) communitySathya Sai Seetharaman
16:45 - 17:00Quick-fire panel 2: Electronic research tools and automationSession 2 speakers
17:00 - 17:50Group discussions and outcomesAll participants
17:50 - 18:00Close Day 1

Day 2

TimeTitleSpeaker
09:00 - 09:10Welcome & housekeepingHosts
09:10 - 09:35Reproducibility in Catalysis Research with Managed Workflows and RO-CratesPatrick Austin
09:35 - 09:50MatFlow: A Python API for computational materials science workflowsStavrina Dimosthenous & Aman Goel
09:50 - 10:00Quick-fire panel 3: Workflows tools and reproducibilitySession 3 speakers
10:00 - 10:25Data to Knowledge for Machine Learning Interatomic PotentialsAlin Elena
10:25 - 10:45TopoStats: an open-source Python toolkit for analysis of AFM imagesSylvia Whittle & Laura Wiggins
10:45 - 10:50Short coffee break
10:50 - 11:05Data Driven Materials DesignKeith Butler
11:05 - 11:35General learning of Electric Response in Inorganic MaterialsBradley Martin
11:35 - 11:55Harnessing Large Language Models to Extract
Complex Concentrated Alloy Properties from Scientific
Literature for Materials Science and Engineering
Joshua Berry
11:55 - 12:10DIAMOND: Accelerating Materials Innovation through Data, Code, and AI
A French Initiative to Build the Next-Generation Materials Discovery Platform
Martin Uhrin
12:10 - 12:20Quick-fire panel 4: Data-driven applications and machine learningSession 4 speakers
12:20 - 13:00Lunch
13:00 - 13:15PSDI Cross-search demoMehmet Giritli
13:15 - 14:00Group discussion & CloseAll participants