Materials Research Society

Coupling Shape and Material Complexity via Additive Manufacturing

Jun 17, 2026

Additive manufacturing is transforming the way materials are designed and fabricated, enabling precise control over geometry, composition, microstructure, and performance across multiple length scales. This webinar explores how advances in additive manufacturing are making it possible to strategically introduce material heterogeneities, compositional gradients, and complex architectures that enhance functionality, robustness, and adaptability. Speakers will discuss emerging capabilities in site-specific microstructure control, solid-state joining, in situ sensing, data-driven modeling, and autonomous experimentation, highlighting the potential of additive manufacturing as a programmable material platform. The session will also examine the practical challenges associated with increasingly complex material designs, including qualification, reproducibility, and scalability, while considering future opportunities for creating materials and structures with unprecedented capabilities.This webinar is presented in conjunction with the June 2026 issue of MRS Bulletin.

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Mathematical Solutions to Materials Problems

Jul 15, 2026

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Mathematics plays a fundamental role in understanding, analyzing, and predicting the behavior of materials across length and time scales. This webinar explores how mathematical tools and frameworks are shaping modern materials research, from statistical analysis of experimental data and crystallographic modeling to topology, phase-field methods, and graph-based approaches for transport and diffusion. Speakers will also discuss inverse problems in advanced characterization techniques and emerging data-driven methods, including neural operators, that connect large experimental datasets with predictive models. Together, these perspectives highlight the powerful and increasingly essential partnership between mathematics and materials science in addressing complex materials challenges. This webinar is presented in conjunction with the July 2026 issue of MRS Bulletin.

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Materials Research at the U.S. DOE National Laboratories

Jul 23, 2026

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories are the engine rooms of American scientific discovery, housing world-class facilities and the brightest minds in materials science. Following the high-impact session at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, this webinar brings together key experts from the original panel for a live, interactive discussion on the future of the field. All registrants will receive a complimentary recording of the original 2-hour session from the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting.

Bring your questions directly to the scientists working on the front lines of global energy and security challenges. This event is designed for students, early-career researchers, and established professionals who want to understand the unique research ecosystem of the Labs, explore career pathways, and learn how to collaborate with these powerhouse institutions.

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