Host (various locations): UBC, CanmetMATERIALS, NRC-Miss (TBC), U of T

Canada, In person

Aug 22, 2022: UBC, Vancouver BC, Canada

Aug 23, 2022: Industry and academic lab site visits, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Aug 26, 2022: CanmetMATERIALS, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Aug 29, 2022: Joint workshop with Acceleration Consortium, UoT, Toronto, ON, Canada

Monday August 22

Location:

Room 202, UBC Chemical & Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3

Activity: 

8:30 – Registration, Poster session set-up

Coffee & light refreshments

9:00 – Welcome & Introduction

9:15 – Session 1 [WP2]: 

– Flexible automation accelerates materials discovery (Berlinguette Group Representative, UBC)

-Autonomous mapping of physical and chemical properties (Hein Group Representative, UBC)

– TBC (Özlem Özcan Sandikcioglu, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM))

11:15 – Panel question period: Lessons learned

11:45 – Lunch (Provided)

13:00 – Lab tours (Hein, Berlinguette) 

14:30 – Forward thinking discussion (all WPs) What areas to develop and how to bolster the activities? 

16:30 – Wrap up 

17:00 – Ionomr lab tour: 2386 E Mall Unit 111, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 (Optional)

Tuesday August 23

Location:

Group A : 

Miru Corporation: 68 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1A1

Telescope Innovations: 887 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC V5T 4T5

OR:

AVL Fuel Cell Canada Inc. – #125 – 8339 Eastlake Drive, V5A 4W2, Burnaby, BC

Ballard Power Systems Inc – 9000 Glenlyon Pkwy, Burnaby, BC V5J 5J8

Dinner @ Steamworks – 375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1B8

Activity:

Group A (Vancouver): Meet @ Telescope Innovations, at 10:00

10:00 Telescope Innovations Tour

11:30 Lunch (at own expense) & Walk to Miru

13:15 Miru Tour 

Group B (Burnaby): Meet @ AVL Canada, 10:00

10:00 AVL Canada 

12:30 Lunch & Commute to Ballard

14:00 Ballard Power Systems Inc Tour

18:00 Networking & Group dinner, Steamworks (The Brew Pub, 375 WATER St., Vancouver, BC)

Wednesday August 24

Location:

Room 114&126, Halpern Centre, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6

Activity:

8:00 – Coffee & Light refreshments, Poster session set-up

8:30 – GCMAC AGM

10:15 – Break

10:30 – Materials Invention to Innovation (Prof. Elicia Maine, SFU)

10:45 Session 2 [WP5]:  

– DL-enabled data handling and material discovery workflow optimization (Jenia Jitsev & Mehrtoos Eslamibidgoli, WP5)

12:05 Panel question period: Lessons learned 

12:30 – Lunch (provided)

13:45 – Lab tours (Holdcroft, 4DLabs)

15:15 – Data-specific workshop [WP5]

Introduction data pipelines, handling, and ontologies for Energy Materials (K. Malek (FZJ), M. Dreger (FZJ), WP5)

17:15 – Wrap up & Poster session winner announcement

Thursday August 25

Travel Day: Vancouver > Toronto 

Friday August 26

Location:

CanmetMATERIALS Lab – 183 Longwood Rd S, Hamilton, ON L8P 0A5

Activity:

8:30 – Coffee & light refreshments

9:00 – Session 3 [WP2]: 

– Mechatronics for Material Accelerated Platform: From an idea to a fully functioning robotic cell (Gabe Birsan, CMAT)

– Self-Driving Laboratories for Electrochemical Applications in Hydrogen and Carbon (Robert Black, NRC-Mississauga)

11:00 Panel question period: Lessons learned 

11:30 – Lunch (provided)

12:45 – CMAT lab tour: MAP Lab

Presentation on MAP Lab Design – (Mark Kozdras, CMAT)

13:30 Session 4 [WP1]

– Accelerating the Discovery and Design of Energy Materials with Theory and Computation (Michael Eikerling, FZJ)

– TBC (Mike Greenwood, CMAT)

– Developing Trustable and Reproducible Datasets and AI Models for MAPs (Jason Hattrick-Simpers, CMAT)

15:30 Panel question period: Lessons learned 

16:00 Wrap up

16:15 Pilot scale labs tour (optional)

Monday August 29

Location:

Rm 2170, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON

Activity:

8:30 Coffee & light refreshments

9:00 Introduction to Acceleration Consortium

9:20 Session 5 [WP3&4]: 

– Advancing electrolysis through operando imaging (Vasant Batta & Tess Seip, Bazylak Group) 

–Simulation Executor and Constrained Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization (Conrard Tetsassi Feugmo, NRC)

10:00 Panel question period: Lessons learned

10:30 Lab tour (Aspuru-Guzik Lab)

11: 50 Lunch (provided) & Ad-hoc discussion

13:15 Session 6 [WP3]:  

– Machine learning for molecular simulations and materials discovery (Pascal Friederich, KIT)

– Molecular Accelerated Discovery of Novelty Enabled by Synthetic Systems (Han Hao, Aspuru-Guzik Group)

14:00 Panel question period: Lessons learned

14:30 Workshop GCMAC forward thinking Discussion: General WP Discussion & Planning session

15:30 Wrap-up/End of Intensive Workshop