AI4MC/26

Winter workshop / MRS Fall Meeting week

Winter AI for
Materials & Chemistry

A focused day on models that generate, simulate, reason, and close the loop with experiment.

Date
Thursday
December 3, 2026
Time
9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Eastern Time
Venue
Microsoft Research New England
One Memorial Drive
City
Cambridge
Massachusetts

01 / About

From plausible structures to physical discovery.

AI4MC '26 brings together materials scientists, chemists, physicists, experimentalists, and machine-learning researchers to ask what it takes to move from capable models to reliable scientific systems.

01

Generative modeling

Molecules, crystals, pathways, and mechanisms.

02

Accelerated simulation

Learning across physical scales.

03

Automated laboratories

Closing the theory-experiment loop.

04

Materials discovery

From virtual candidates to useful matter.

05

Electronic structure

Electrons, energy, and reactivity.

06

Multifidelity data

Experiments and simulation at many scales.

02 / Program

One focused day

Seven invited talks, six contributed spotlights, one poster session, and one candid panel. All times are Eastern and tentative.

  1. Opening remarks
  2. Invited talks I
  3. Contributed talks I
  4. Invited talks II
  5. Lunch break
  6. Poster session
  7. Invited talks III
  8. Contributed talks II
  9. Panel session
  10. Closing remarks

03 / People

Speakers & panelists

Perspectives spanning generative modeling, simulation, electronic structure, experiment, and research systems.

Invited speakers
Panelists

04 / Registration & call for abstracts

Open through November 19

Join us in Cambridge.

Registration is free, but required to gain access to the workshop in the building. Use one short form to register and, if you wish to present, submit an abstract for an oral presentation, a poster, or both.

Registration and abstract submission deadline: November 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM ET.

Register or submit an abstract
06talks10min each90min posters

05 / Visit

Microsoft Research
New England

One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Context
MRS Fall Meeting week
Address
One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

06 / Organizers

Organizing team

Mouyang Cheng

MIT

Juno Nam

MIT

Yuanqi Du

Microsoft Research

Weiliang Luo

MIT

Wenhao He

MIT

Bowen Yu

MIT

Additional organizers

To be announced