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July 2026 – Congratulations Marco for winning runner-up best contributed oral presentation award
July 2026 – Congratulations to PhD student Marco Gibaldi for winning runner-up best contributed oral presentation award at the 2026 Canadian Symposium for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. His talk was titled “Greater than the sum of its parts—Efficient ML Interatomic Potentials for DFT-Quality Simulations of MOFs via Fragment-Based Approaches”
July 2026 – Canadian Symposium for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Ottawa
July 2026 – The Woo lab along with the Gentile and Schuurman labs organized and ran the 2026 edition of the CSTCC (Canadian Symposium for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry). There were over 150 participants and 84 posters presented. Marco presented a contributed talk titled ‘ Greater than the sum of its parts—Efficient ML Interatomic Potentials […]
May 2026 – Congratulations to Andrew for winning best student oral presentation at the CSC
May 2026 – Congratulations to PhD student Andrew White who was awarded best student oral presentation at the Canadian Societies for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 2026 national conference in Toronto symposium for “AI in Biomolecular, Materials, and Molecular Design. Andrew’s talk was titled “Unifying Generation of 3D-Periodic Materials and 0D-Molecular Species Through an Invertible, Invariant […]
March 2026 – Group Hockey Game Outing
March 2026 – The group went to an Ottawa 67’s (OHL) hockey game – no fights but the 67’s beat the Peterborough Petes 6-3.
Feb. 2026 – New group members Grace and Aziz defeated by the Pho Challenge.
Feb. 2026- New group members Grace and Aziz try the XXL Pho challenge and are sadly defeated. Below are Grace happily starting the challenge and Aziz at the breaking point.
June 2025 – Andrew, Jake, Marco, Ohmin, Jun & Rosa present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference(CSC 2025)
The Canadian Chemistry Conference (CSC2025) was held in Ottawa this year. Group members Andrew and Marco gave oral presentations in the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Biomolecular, Materials, and Molecular Design’ session. Jake, Andrew, Ohmin, Jun and Rosa presented posters.
May 2025 – Andrew’s MOSAEC paper has been published in JACS
May 2025 – congratulations to Andrew White and other group members whose paper on identifying structural errors in MOF databases has been published in JACS: White, A.; Gibaldi, M.; Burner, J.; Mayo, R.A.; Woo, T.K.* “High structural error rates in MOF databases used in data driven workflows identified via a novel metal oxidation state-based method”, […]
May 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Sari who were awarded scholarships
Congratulations to Sari who was awarded a national NSERC USRA fellowship and to Sydney who was awarded a WISE scholarship from the University – both to work in the lab during the summer.
April 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Rhiannon for their award winning undergrad theses.
Congratulations to Sydney and Rhiannon for successfully defending their undergrad thesis work. Rhiannon was awarded the best undergraduate thesis in Chemistry and Sydney was awarded the Hypercube undergraduate thesis award. Sydney’s thesis was titled “The Effect Of Chemically Invalid Metalorganic Frameworks On The Predictive Abilities Of Machine Learning Models” and Rhiannon’s thesis was titled ” […]
April 2025 – Prof. Woo joins the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry
Professor Woo was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry.
