Hot topics provide value to MRS membership and the materials community
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MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY
OPINION LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Hot-topic areas have proved highly popular, with strong webinar attendance, heavily downloaded journal articles, and packed symposium sessions.
Hot topics provide value to MRS membership and the materials community Matt Copel 2020 MRS President
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or almost 47 years, the Materials Research Society (MRS) has been the leading association for the materials community. Members choose MRS because it is important to their work and their careers, and because in MRS they find an open environment for collaboration and the exchange of ideas across all relevant scientific disciplines. Our meetings and publications are designed to incorporate a high level of flexibility so that content can remain topical, and our members can count on presentations featuring cutting-edge research. In keeping with the MRS tradition of empowering members, much of our meeting content is comprised of member-proposed symposia, and our publications have encouraged submissions covering a broad spectrum of materials topics. While this has served us well, there have been times when we felt the need to jump-start a new topic and build a core community that can then sustain a flow of papers and symposia. Recently, MRS introduced “hot-topic” areas— artificial intelligence (AI) for materials design, quantum materials, emerging biomaterials, sustainability, and responsive and adaptive materials—to forge new materials communities and guide content development at the frontier of materials research. These hot-topic areas have proved highly popular, with strong webinar attendance, heavily downloaded journal articles, packed symposium sessions, and more. In fact, in a relatively short time, they have permeated all Society activities. Using AI as just one example: The first symposium on Machine Learning and Data-Driven Materials Development and Design was introduced at the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting, and AI has been in the symposia lineup at every MRS Meeting since. If you’re joining us at the 2020 MRS Spring Meeting, consider attending Symposium CT01—Artificial Intelligence for Material Design, Processing and Characterizations. The tutorial on Data-Driven Design of Sustainable Materials with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Assessment, offered at the 2019 MRS Spring Meeting, was standing room only! Two issues of MRS Bulletin, one in September 2018 and another in July 2019, focused on “Data-Centric Science for Materials Innovation” and “The Machine Learning Revolution in Materials Research,” respectively. Various feature articles on AI were also published in MRS Bulletin throughout 2018 and 2019. MRS Communications published a Spring 2019 Special Issue on AI. The MRS OnDemand® Webinar Series has produced three webinars on AI/Machine Learning (ML). The most recent, in September 2019, garnered nearly 300 attendees. All are archived at mrs.org/on-demand. Two episodes of the new MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast series have been devoted to AI/ML. Take a listen at mrsbulletin.buzzsprout.com.
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