Recent advances in entropy-assisted synthesis allow the creation of new classes of materials, which can host extraordinary levels of configurational disorder on single phase, spatially ordered crystal lattices. Increasingly, there are reports linking these "high entropy" materials to a wide range of possibly transformative functional behaviors related to electronic and thermal transport, magnetic order and frustration, and ion conductivity. However, it is unclear if these behaviors are the result of simple composite responses arising from the hosted elements or if these are uniquely accessible characteristics dictated by the presence of site-to-site variances in couplings and degrees of freedom. This workshop will bring together leading physicists, materials scientists, and chemists working in this emerging field to discuss recent experimental and theoretical advances. The underlying theme will be to identify commonalities and overlaps in configurationally complex materials of different structures and function, which may lead to broadening our general understanding of entropy-stabilized and high entropy systems.

Special attention will be paid to identifying novel features of high entropy systems containing both cation and anion sublattice(s), such as high entropy oxides and nitrides, which may be expected to provide unique solutions to unresolved fundamental and applied problems in physics, materials science, and chemistry. The workshop will identify future research needs and encourage new cross-discipline collaborations between attendees.