This symposium solicits abstract submissions from researchers who are developing new algorithms and/or designing new methods for performing computational research in materials science and engineering. Validation studies and uncertainty quantification of computational methodologies are equally of interest. Session topics include, but are not limited to:
• Advancements that enhance modeling and simulation techniques such as density functional theory, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulation, dislocation dynamics, electronic-excited states, phase-field modeling, CALPHAD, and finite element analysis;
• Advancements in semi-empirical models and machine learning algorithms for interatomic interactions;
• New techniques for simulating the complex behavior of materials at different length and time scales;
• Computational methods for analyzing results from simulations of materials phenomena;
• Approaches for data mining, machine learning, image processing, high throughput databases, high throughput experiments, and extracting useful insights from large data sets of numerical and experimental results;
• Approaches for improving performance and/or scalability, particularly on new and emerging hardware (e.g. GPUs), and other high-performance computing (HPC) efforts; and
• Uncertainty quantification, model comparisons and validation studies related to novel algorithms and/or methods in computational material science.