Name: PSDI & Royce Materials Data Summit
Start: 2026-07-29T10:45:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-31T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Nancy Rothwell Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

PSDI & Royce Materials Data Summit

from Wednesday, July 29, 2026 (10:45 AM) to Friday, July 31, 2026 (5:30 PM)

Monday, July 27, 2026
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

10:45 AM Registration

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM Room 1 Tutorials
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 2A.034
Contributions

12:00 PM Data analysis workflows, reproducibility and sharing with RO-Crate in Materials Galaxy

3:00 PM Automated nanoparticle segmentation of TEM images and generation of synthetic databases with TEMPOS - Andrew Stewart (University College London)
Room 2 Tutorials
12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 2B.002
Contributions

12:00 PM Querying remote materials data sources

3:00 PM How to use CrystaLLM-pi to predict crystal structures
Room 3 Tutorials
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 2B.003
Contributions

3:00 PM From Data Silos to Linked Research Workflows: Hands-on with OpenSemanticLab and OO-LD
2:00 PM Registration

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

2:30 PM Break
Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Thursday, July 30, 2026

9:00 AM Registration & morning coffee

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 2B.020

10:00 AM Conference Opening

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 2B.020
10:15 AM Keynote talk: Keynote talk 1
Keynote talk 1
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

10:15 AM Machine learning for materials science: A bittersweet lesson - Keith Butler
11:00 AM Break
Break
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: 2B.020
11:25 AM Invited talks: Thursday session 1
Thursday session 1
11:25 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

11:25 AM Introduction to the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure - Brian Matthews

11:55 AM Introduction to segmenting TEM images via machine learning and synthetic data - Andrew Stewart (University College London)

12:25 PM Large Language Model Agents for Materials Research Workflows
12:55 PM Poster lightning talks: Thursday lightning talks
Thursday lightning talks
12:55 PM - 1:25 PM
Room: 2B.020

1:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:25 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 2B.020

Poster Session

1:25 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 2B.020

1:55 PM Advanced Metals Processing Facilities Tour
Advanced Metals Processing Facilities Tour
1:55 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 2B.020
3:40 PM Invited talks: Thursday session 2
Thursday session 2
3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

3:40 PM TBA - Christoph Eberl

4:10 PM A Whole New Lab: Exploring ELNs and Digital Transformation
4:40 PM Break
Break
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM
Room: 2B.020

5:10 PM Forum: Thursday forum
Thursday forum
5:10 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: 2B.020

7:25 PM Conference Dinner: Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:25 PM - 9:25 PM
Friday, July 31, 2026

9:00 AM Registration & morning coffee

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 2B.020

10:00 AM Welcome to day 2

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: 2B.020
10:10 AM Keynote talk: Keynote 2
Keynote 2
10:10 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

10:10 AM People are infrastructure: the strategic case for open simulation science.
10:55 AM Invited talks: Friday session 1
Friday session 1
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

10:55 AM (StC) Digital transformation at Royce - Stuart Kitney
11:20 AM Break
Break
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: 2B.020
11:50 AM Invited talks: Friday session 2
Friday session 2
11:50 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

11:50 AM TBA - Robert Quarshie

12:20 PM TBA - Jesper Friis
12:50 PM Poster lightning talks: Friday lightning talks
Friday lightning talks
12:50 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: 2B.020

1:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:20 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 2B.020

Poster Session

1:20 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 2B.020

2:00 PM Photon Science Institute Laboratory Tours
Photon Science Institute Laboratory Tours
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: 2B.020
3:00 PM Invited talks: Friday session 3
Friday session 3
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 2B.020
Contributions

3:00 PM Multimodal AI for Materials Design

3:30 PM ICAT: metadata cataloguing for scientific facilities - Patrick Austin (STFC)
4:00 PM Break
Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 2B.020

4:30 PM Forum: Friday forum & closing remarks
Friday forum & closing remarks
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 2B.020

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