June 2016 – Group attends Canadian Society for Chemistry National meeting in Halifax
Mykhaylo, Sean, Evans, Tom B, Hanna, and Woo attended the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Halifax (June 5-9th). The following poster and oral presentations were given:
“FA3PS: A Fully Automated Computational Tool to Predict, Analyze and Optimize the Adsorption Properties of Nanoporous Materials “(Poster) Collins SP, Daff TD, Burns TD, Boyd PG, Lo JW, Woo TK
“Guiding the Design of Materials for Carbon Capture via High Throughput Determination and Data Mining of Binding Sites in Metal Organic Frameworks” (Poster) BurnsTD , Boyd P, Daff T, Woo TK
“Does Halogen Bonding Drive the Formation of the Unique Bromine Clathrate Hydrate?” (Poster) Dureckova H, Alavi S, Woo TK
“A New Split-charge Equilibration Model for Rapidly Generating Partial Atomic Charges for High Throughput Screening of Charged Materials” Krykunov M, Demone C, Woo T
“The Challenge of Splitting the C-C Bond During Ethanol Electrooxidation and Potential Opportunities: Insights from PMIRRAS and DFT Study” (Oral) Monyoncho EA, Steinmann SN, Michel M, Baranova EA, Woo TK, Sautet, P
“A Tribute to Tom Ziegler (1945-2015)” (Oral) Woo TK, Schreckenbach G, Pye CC
“A Graph Theoretic Approach for Constructing Materials of any Net Topology for High Throughput Screening”(Oral) Boyd PG, Woo TK
“High-throughput Screening of Topologically Diverse MOFs for Vehicular Methane Storage”(Oral) Collins SP, Boyd PG, Woo TK
“Metal Organic Framework Materials for Clean(er) Energy Production” (Oral) Woo TK
“A Computational Chemist’s Curious Course from Catalysis to Carbon Capture” (Award Lecture) Woo TK
“Development of Constricted Variational Density Functional Theory” (Oral) Krykunov M
July 2015 – Congratulations to Peter for Successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis – Off to Berkeley
Congratulations to Peter Boyd for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis “Computational High Throughput Screening of Metal Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Applications”. Peter is off to UC Berkeley to work with Berend Smit.
June 2015 – The 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition Opens in Ottawa
June 13-17. The 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition was successfully held in Ottawa, with the University of Ottawa Hosting. Woo was the scientific program chair for the conference. There were over 2100 registrants, 1350 oral presentations, 800+ poster presentations and presenters from 38 different countries.
May 2015 – Hana Dureckova and Chris Demone join the group as M.Sc. candidates.
Hana Dureckova and Chris Demone join the group as M.Sc. candidates beginning in September 2015
April 2015 – Hana wins the department’s best undergraduate thesis award!
Congratulations to Hana for winning the department of Chemistry’s best undergraduate thesis award. She was also awarded the Hypercube Scholar award for the best thesis involving theoretical or computational chemistry.
Feb. 2015 – Congrats to Woo for finishing his 3 yr term on the NSERC Discovery Grants Evaluation Committee
Congrats to Woo for finishing his three year term on the NSERC Discovery Grants Evaluation Committee.
Nov. 2014 – Congrats to Bianca who Successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis: Off to Cambridge
Congratulations to Bianca who successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis. She is off to Cambridge UK to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry.
Sept. 2014 Congrats to Phil Bulsink on his MSc. Defense and new job at Natural Resources Canada
Congratulations to Phil Bulsink on his new job at Natural Resources Canada as a Fuels Chemist and successfully defending his MSc.
Aug. 2014 – Woo and Daff visit Brazil to Collaborate
Prof Woo and Tom Daff visit the University of Campinas (one of the top Universities in Brazil) near Sao Paulo to collaborate with the research groups of Munir Skaf and Douglas Galvao at the Institutes of Chemistry and Physics, respectively. The collaboration is a two year project funded by a CALDO-FAPSEP interaction grant.
