Status Seminar

In large-scale materials science projects, managing and utilizing heterogeneous forms of knowledge – conceptual, factual, procedural, contextual – poses significant challenges. This presentation introduces ongoing work within the Collaborative Research Centre 1625 (CRC 1625), focused on developing a domain-specific knowledge graph (KG) to support scientific discovery and collaboration.

Our KG acts as a semantic layer over the relational database at the core of the Research Data Management System. This KG serves multiple purposes, including providing an integrated view of samples, experimental observations, and associated metadata. This semantic representation supports advanced data access for machine learning pipelines, enables expressive query capabilities for users, and fosters interoperability across the three research areas in the CRC. In addition, the KG models and validates the conceptual and procedural dimensions of research by capturing hypotheses and workflows of material samples. This modeling enables provenance tracking, supports reproducibility, and enriches the contextual understanding of experimental data for the project scientists.

Additionally, the talk explores the integration of large language models (LLMs) to support various stages of the knowledge graph lifecycle. These AI-driven enhancements aim to reduce manual effort, improve scalability, and accelerate the incorporation of new knowledge into the system.

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Parallel Sessions

For PIs/PRs/PhD:
What's your next bold idea?

• Meta-Learned Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials for Ab initio Engineering of Chemical and Microstructural Complexity 
• Generative KI für SimTech und SimTech für Generative KI 
• AI Engineer and AI Scientist 
• Inference for stochastic models  
• NFDI am SC 
• Robotics in Health - more than one open challenge 
• tba

Plenum

For (Post)Doctoral Researchers:

• ehlers Cluster - Community Treff 
• Pride in STEM at SimTech
• JoDaKISS

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Postdam
Foyer or Hermannsburg

SimTech over the years

Wolfgang Ehlers & Thomas Ertl

Dinner 

Morning Hike with Miriam (optional)

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 Lüneburg/Hermannsburg

For (Post)Doctoral Researchers: Career Paths Academia and Beyond

Dr. Michaela Hergersberg

Whether you are currently pursuing your PhD, planning your next steps as a postdoc, or preparing for a senior scientist position – this seminar will show you how to clearly define your goals, strategically position yourself within the scientific community, and make the most of your career opportunities. Considering a career beyond research? Discover exciting alternatives! Science management, science communication, alumni relations, technology transfer, and much more – after completing your PhD, many doors are open to you. This seminar also provides an overview of the options available, the qualifications required, and how to plan your next career move.

Plenum

 Lüneburg/Hermannsburg

 Restaurant