WATOC25 and its (Dr Who like) regeneration to Young WATOC25.
The WATOC congresses occur every three years. WATOC25, the 13th in a series which started in 1987 takes places tomorrow in Oslo, Norway, The day before the main event there is something new – a session just for early career researchers or “Young WATOC”. As an “old” WATOCer, I dropped into the opening session and was delighted to find a packed auditorium, with literally standing room only comprising mostly young researchers in their 20s.
Apparently in terms of presenters, the event was more than five times over-subscribed with >100 submissions, of which around 18 being selected for presentation.
The first talk was also really great, involving how to locate the equilibrium geometries of molecules and the transition states connecting their reactions. The standard methods used nowadays involve Taylor series expansions of the energy and it’s good to see new methods based on ML and image processing techniques being adapted for this.
It looks like the future of computational chemistry is in enthusiastic new hands! And, for the first time, this 13th Congress now has its own app containing speaker information, abstracts, the timetable and much more. All indexed and searchable!
The week ahead is packed with talks and I may report back here.
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