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April 2017. Woo Lab moves to King Edward Street
April 2017. The Woo lab has moved to a house on King Edward to accommodate renovations to the old Chemistry building and the construction of the new STEM building.
July 2016 – Congratulations to Sean for being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II graduate scholarship
Congratulations to Sean Collins for being awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST). Below is a picture of Sean winning the group’s hot wing eating contest.
July 2016 – Peter presents at the Applications of Topological Methods in Materials Science meeting in Russia
Peter Boyd, presented an invited talk at the “Applications of topological methods in materials science” International workshop in Samara, Russia, July 1-4, 2016. Peter presented the talk “A Novel Method for Constructing Nano Porous Materials from Labelled Quotient Graphs” . As well, he ran a practical tutorial on the group’s TOBASSCO (TOpology BASed Crystal COnstructor) package.
June 2016 – Woo wins the inaugural Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zielger Award
Woo was awarded the first every Tom Ziegler Award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. The award, sponsored by Scientific Computing & Modelling NV, is presented to a scientist residing in Canada who has made a distinguished contribution to computational or theoretical chemistry while working in Canada. Woo’s Award talk was titled “A Computational Chemist’s Curious Course […]
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.
