Critical Minerals & Materials Science Summit
Date
November 3
Organization
Format
In-Person
Location
Richland, WA
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Hosted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the AVS Science & Technology Society. The summit focuses on secure, sustainable critical mineral supply chains and the research-to-deployment continuum connecting foundational science, applied research, pilot-scale studies, and deployable solutions. Key themes include global-to-local supply chain modeling; challenges, gaps, and opportunities for U.S. leadership; M²US AI-enabled modeling; and data-to-decision pipelines for supply chain forecasting from government, laboratory, and industry perspectives. Extraction and separation topics include interfacial chemistry and transport phenomena, field- and flow-based separation, bio-based and biomimetic approaches, atomic-scale to field-scale separations, recovery from terrestrial, marine, and coastal systems, and recovery from tailings, slags, brines, e-waste, and other unconventional feedstocks. The cross-cutting AI and autonomous science track covers AI for scientific discovery, in situ sensing, autonomous experimentation, and development of an AI-ready critical minerals and materials research ecosystem. Plenary topics include automation-accelerated discovery and process optimization for critical materials research, autonomous molecular discovery for f-elements, critical mineral market modeling, and domestic critical mineral supply estimation.
Speakers(4)
Ames National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
U.S. Geological Survey - National Minerals Information Center
U.S. Department of Energy - Manufacturing Deployment Office
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