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2018

Woo TK “The Materials Mating Game and Integrated Multi-scale Modeling from Atomistic to Plant Scale”, Plenary Oral Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Computational Nano-Science and New Energy Materials, Xinxian, China, July 24-26, 2018.

Woo TK “Using Big Data and Machine Learning in the Design of Carbon Capture Materials”, Invited Oral Presentation at the Opening Ceremony for Innovation Base in Nanofunctional Materials,  College of Physics and Materials Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxian, China, July 21, 2018.

Woo, TK “Using Big Data and Machine Learning in Materials Design” Invited Oral Presentation at the Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, BC,  June 8, 2018.

Woo, TK “Using Big Data and Machine Learning in Materials Design” Invited Oral Presentation at the Center for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, January, 2018.

Woo, TK “High Throughput Screening, Datamining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture” Invited Oral Presentation at 3M, Quapaw, OK,  May 8, 2018.

2017

  1. Woo TK “Process Modelling and Life Cycle Analysis of MOFs for Carbon Capture”, Invited Oral Presentation at the Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Experts’ Workshop, Houston, Texas, September 26–28, 2017.
  2. Woo TK “Optimizing the Energetic Cost of CO2 Capture in Nanoporous Materials using the Molecular Simulation Toolbox” Invited Oral Presentation at NANOPOROUS MATERIALS-8, Ottawa,, July 9-12, 2017.
  3. Collins SP, Daff TD Woo TK “The Materials Mating Game: Evolutionary Optimization of Functional Groups in Metal Organic Frameworks for CO2 Capture”, Poster Presentation at International Symposium Nanoporous Materials – VIII (NANO-8), Ottawa, ON, July 9-12, 2017.
  4. Collins SP, Woo TK ” Large Scale Screening of the Optimized Parasitic Energy of CO2 Capture of Experimentally Characterized Metal Organic Frameworks”, Poster Presentation at International Symposium Nanoporous Materials – VIII (NANO-8), Ottawa, ON, July 9-12, 2017.
  5. Collins SP, Daff TD, Burns TD, Boyd PG, Lo JW, Woo TK “FA3PS: A Fully Automated Computational Tool to Predict, Analyze and Optimize the Adsorption Properties of Nanoporous Materials”, Poster Presentation at International Symposium Nanoporous Materials – VIII (NANO-8), Ottawa, ON, July 9-12, 2017.
  6. Dureckova H, Woo TK ” Evaluation of MOFs for O2/N2 and CO2/H2 Separations in Pre-combustion Carbon Capture”, Poster Presentation at International Symposium Nanoporous Materials – VIII (NANO-8), Ottawa, ON, July 9-12, 2017.
  7. Burns TD, Boyd P, Daff TD, Woo TK “Guiding the Design of Materials for Carbon Capture via High Throughput Determination and Datamining of Binding Sites in Metal Organic Frameworks”, Poster Presentaion at International Symposium Nanoporous Materials – VII (NANO-8), Ottawa, ON, July 9 – 12, 2017.
  8. Dureckova H, Woo TK, Alavi S ” The Anomalous Halogen Bonding between Cl and Br with Water in Clathrate Hydrates”, Poster Presentation at Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular and Solid State Chemistry – Faraday Discussion, Ottawa, ON, July 9-12, 2017.
  9. Woo TK “High Throughput Screening, and Machine Learning Recognition of Nanoporous Materials for Carbon Capture” Invited Oral Presentation at CIFAR Machine Learning for Energy Materials Discovery Workshop, Boston, USA, May 30, 2017.
  10. Woo TK “Optimizing the Energetic Cost of CO2 Capture in Nanoporous Materials using the Molecular Simulation Toolbox” Invited Oral Presentation at 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC), Metal and Covalent Organic Frameworks Symposium, Toronto, ON, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  11. Collins SP, Woo TK ” Large Scale Screening of the Optimized Parasitic Energy of CO2 Capture of Experimentally Characterized Metal Organic Frameworks”, Oral Presentation at 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC), Metal and Covalent Organic Frameworks Symposium, Toronto, ON, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  12. Collins SP, Woo TK ” Performance of Metal Organic Frameworks for Landfill Gas Separation by Simulations”, Poster Presentation at 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC), Toronto, ON, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  13. Burns TD, Woo TK “Can Metal Organic Frameworks be Used to Mitigate Fugitive Coal Mine Methane”, Oral Presentation at 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Conference and Exhibition, Metal and Covalent Organic Frameworks Symposium, Toronto, ON, May 28th – June 1st, 2017
  14. Dureckova H, Woo TK ” Evaluation of MOFs for O2/N2 and CO2/H2 Separations in Pre-combustion Carbon Capture”, Oral Presentation at 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC), Metal and Covalent Organic Frameworks Symposium, Toronto, ON, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  15. Dureckova H, Woo TK, Alavi S ” The Anomalous Halogen Bonding between Cl and Br with Water in Clathrate Hydrates”, Poster Presentation at 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC), Toronto, ON, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  16. Demone C, Collins SP, Krykunov M, Woo TK “Empirical Charge Models for Fast and Accurate Modeling of Guest-Host Interactions in Aluminosilicate Zeolites”, Poster Presentation at 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC), Toronto, ON, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  17. Collins SP, Woo TK “Computer Aided Design of Materials for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction”, Oral Presentation at Carbon Capture Initiative Conference (CCI), Vancouver, BC, May 8-10, 2017.
  18. Burns TD, Woo TK “Can Metal Organic Frameworks be Used to Mitigate Fugitive Coal Mine Methane”, Oral Presentation at Carbon Capture Initiative Conference (CCI), Vancouver, BC, May 8-10, 2017.
  19. Woo TK “High Throughput Screening, Datamining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture” 31st Annual Western Canadian Undergraduate Chemistry Conference, Edmonton, Canada, May 3-5, 2017. Keynote Speaker
  20. Collins SP, Woo TK “Computer Aided Design of Materials for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction”, Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, Oral Presentation, Ottawa, ON, May 2, 2017.
  21. Woo TK  “High Throughput Screening, Datamining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture.” Invited departmental seminar, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, May 2, 2017
  22. Woo TK  “High Throughput Screening, Datamining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture.” Invited departmental seminar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, April 27, 2017
  23. Woo TK  “High Throughput Screening and Data Mining of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture” Invited presentation at 4th North American Energy Ministers Trilateral Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Workshop, Pittsburgh, United States. March 28-30, 2017

2016

 

  1. Woo TK  “High Throughput Screening, Data Mining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture“ Invited Department Seminar, Universidad De La Republica, Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay. Nov. 24, 2016
  2. Woo TK  “High Throughput Screening, Data Mining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture“ 42nd Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expression (QUITEL 2016), Nov. 20-25, 2016,  Montevideo, Uruguay, Keynote Lecture.
  3. Woo TK  “Datamining and Machine Learning Recognition of High Performance Materials for Carbon Capture“ Invited Oral Presentation at 2016 Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CSTCC), Regina, SK, July 10-16, 2016.
  4. Woo TK “Construction of Hypothetical MOFs of Any Net Topology for High Throughput Screening and Data Mining” Invited Oral Presentation at 44th National Seminar on Crystallography, Pune, India, July 10-13.
  5. Woo TK  Invited Department Seminar, National Chemistry Laboratory, Pune, India, July 9, 2016.
  6. Woo TK  Invited Department Seminar, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, July 8, 2016.
  7. Woo TK invited Department Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, July 7, 2016
  8. Woo TK “Large Scale Screening and Datamining of Nanoporous Materials for Carbon Capture” 21st International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology (QSCP-XXI), Vancouver, BC, July 2-9 2016. Plenary Lecture.
  9. Boyd, PG, Woo TK “Introduction to TOBASCCO (TOpology BASed Crystal COnstructor”, Invited oral presentation at International Scientific School “Combined Topological and DFT Methods for Prediction of New Materials II”, Samara, Russia, July 4-10, 2016.
  10. Boyd, PG, Woo TK “A Graph Theoretic Approach for Constructing Materials of any Net Topology”, Invited oral presentation at Applications of topological methods in materials science, Samara, Russia, July 1-2, 2016.
  11. Woo TK “Metal Organic Framework Materials for Clean(er) Energy Production” Invited Oral presentation given in the “Metals and Nanometals in the Environment” symposium at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  12. Krykunov M “Development of Constricted Variational Density Functional Theory”  Invited Oral presentation given in the “Celebrating the Life and Science of Tom Ziegler” symposium at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  13. Collins SP, Boyd PG, Woo TK “High-throughput Screening of Topologically Diverse MOFs for Vehicular Methane Storage” Oral presentation given in the “Data-driven Computational Chemistry: Models and Applications” symposium at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  14. Woo TK  “A Computational Chemist’s Curious Course from Catalysis to Carbon Capture *Award Lecture for the CSC Tom Ziegler Award at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  15. Boyd PG, Woo TK “A Graph Theoretic Approach for Constructing Materials of any Net Topology for High Throughput Screening” Oral presentation given in the ” Data-driven Computational Chemistry: Models and Applications” symposium at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  16. Woo TK, Schreckenbach G, Pye CC “A Tribute to Tom Ziegler (1945-2015)” Oral presentation given in the “Celebrating the Life and Science of Tom Ziegler” symposium at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  17. Monyoncho EA, Steinmann SN, Michel M, Baranova EA, Woo TK, Sautet, P. “The Challenge of Splitting the C-C Bond During Ethanol Electrooxidation and Potential Opportunities: Insights from PMIRRAS and DFT Study”, Oral presentation given in the “Electrochemistry” symposium at the 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  18. Dureckova H, Alavi S, Woo TK “Does Halogen Bonding Drive the Formation of the Unique Bromine Clathrate Hydrate?” Poster 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  19. Burns TD, Boyd P, Daff T, 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 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  20. Collins SP, Daff TD, Burns TD, Boyd PG, Lo JW, Woo TK “FA3PS: A Fully Automated Computational Tool to Predict, Analyze and Optimize the Adsorption Properties of Nanoporous Materials” Poster 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  21. Krykunov M, Demone C, Woo T “A New Split-charge Equilibration Model for Rapidly Generating Partial Atomic Charges for High Throughput Screening of Charged Materials”  Poster at 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  22. Collins SP, Daff TD, Dureckova H, Perim E, Skaf MS, Galvão DS, Woo TK “How do Carbon Nanoscroll Materials Perform for Carbon Capture and Methane Storage Applications?” Poster at 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, NS, June 5-9, 2016.
  23. Woo TK “High Throughput Computational Screening and Data Mining of Nanoporous Materials for Clean Energy Applications” Invited presentation at 4th Tunisian Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Workshop, Sousse, Tunisia, May 23-25, 2016.
  24. Woo TK  Department Seminar, King Abudulla University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2016.

2015

  1. Peter G. Boyd, Tom K Woo, Crystal Structure Prediction of Nano-porous Materials from Graph Theory. (oral) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Computational Chemistry: Methods and Applications symposium Ottawa, ON, Canada. June 17 2015
  2. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, Michael Fernandez, Tom K Woo, Computational High Throughput Screening of Metal Organic Frameworks For Carbon Capture from Post-Combustion Flue Gas. (oral) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Nanoporous Materials symposium Ottawa, ON, Canada. June 14 2015
  3. Woo, T.K.; Fernandez, M.; Daff, T.D.; Boyd, P.G.; Zein Aghaji, M., “MOFinformatics: Adventures in High Throughput Screening and Data Mining of Materials” (invited presentation), 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Computational Chemistry: Methods and Applications symposium.  Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  4. Woo, T.K.; Collins, S.P.; M.; Daff, T.D.; Boyd, P.G.; Zein Aghaji M., Breeding a Better MOF and other Virtual Screening Tools for Nanoporous Materials Development,  Invited Oral presentation at 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Nanoporous Materials symposium.  Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  5. Collins S.P.; Daff T.D.; Woo, T.K., The Materials Mating Game: Evolutionary Optimization of Functional Groups in Metal-organic Framework CO2 Capture. (Poster) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition,  Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  6. Dureckova H.; Alavi, S.; Woo, T.K.: Is Halogen Bonding Important in the Formation of Cl2, Br2 and BrCl Clathrate Hydrates? (Poster) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.  2nd place award in the Undergraduate Poster Competition for “Physical/Theoretical/Computation” division. Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  7. Lo, J. W.-H.; Demone, C.; Campañá, C.; Boyd, P.; Woo, T.K., Electrostatic Potential Fitted Atomic Charges of Periodic Systems with Net Charges. (Poster), 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition presented in the “Physical, Theoretical, and Computation ” symposium. Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  8. Collins S.P.; Fernandez, M; Daff, T.D.; Boyd, P.G.; Zein Aghaji, M; Woo, T.K., Rapid Screening of Millions of Metal Organic Framework Materials for CO2 Capture Using Machine Learning and Materials Informatics. (Poster) Opportunities in Materials Informatics. Madison, WI, USA. February 9-10, 2015.
  9.  Zein Aghaji, M.;Fernandez, M.; Daff, T.D.; Boyd, P.G.; Woo, T.K,:Machine Learning Classifiers that can identify of high preforming Metal Organic Frameworks for CO2 capture and CH4 purification.(Poster) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition presented in the “Nanoporous Materials” symposium.  Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  10. Zein Aghaji, M.;Fernandez, M.; Daff, T.D.; Boyd, P.G.; Woo, T.K,:What are the Key Structural and Chemical Features of High Performing Metal Organic Frameworks for Natural Gas purification? A Computational High Throughput Screening Study.(Poster) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition presented in the “Nanoporous Materials” symposium.  Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.
  11. Burns, T.D.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T.K.: Locating the Binding Sites in Millions of Metal Organic Frameworks: An Automated Binding Site Location Algorithm.  (Poster) 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.  Honourable mention award in the graduate student poster competition in the “Physical/Theoretical/Computation” division. Ottawa, ON. June 13-17, 2015.

2014

  1. Collins, S.P.; Daff T.D.; Woo, T.K., Materials Mating Game: Evolutionary Optimization of Nanoporous Materials for CO2 Capture. (Poster) 26th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CSTCC). Montreal, QC. 8th July, 2014.
  2. Provost, B.R.; Guo, L.; Daff, T.D.; Sutrisno, A.; Huang, Y.; Woo, T.K., Using Molecular Simulation to Aid in the Interpretation of Solid-State NMR of Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) 97th Canadian Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2014) (Physical, Theoretical and Computational Section, PTP- Poster Session). Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, BC. 2nd June, 2014.
  3. Monyoncho, E., Ntais, S., Woo, TK. and Baranova, E., Effect of Surface Structure on Catalytic activity of PdxRu1-x/C Nanoparticles for Ethanol Electrooxidation. (Oral) 97th Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Conference, Symposium: Surface Electrochemistry – From Fundamental Studies to Advanced Electrocatalyst Materials. Vancouver, BC. June 5, 2014.
  4. Collins, S.P.; Daff T.D., Woo T.K., Materials Mating Game: Metal Organic Framework Optimization for CO2 Capture. (Oral) Computer-aided Molecular Design of Drugs and Materials: New Methodologies and Application, 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC). Vancouver, BC. 4th June, 2014.
  5. Collins, S.P.; Fernandez M, Daff T.D., Boyd P.G., Zein Agahaji M.; Woo T.K., Rapid Machine Learning and Chemoinformatic Tool for Optimization of Materials for Clean Energy Applications. (Oral) Computer-aided Molecular Design of Drugs and Materials: New Methodologies and Application, 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC). Vancouver, BC. 4th June, 2014.
  6. De Luna, P.; Daff T.D.; Fernandez, M.; Boyd, P.G.; Woo, T.K.,  High-Throughput Computational Screening of Metal Organic Frameworks for CO2 Capture and Sequestration. Carbon Management Canada (CMC) Conference. May 25 – 27th, 2014. (Poster Presentation Award)
  7. Collins, S.P.; Daff T.D.; Woo T.K., A Novel Computational Screening Approach to Finding Solid Sorbents for Low-cost-post-combustion CO2 Capture. (Poster) 4th Annual Carbon Management Canada Conference (CMC). Banff, AB. 28th May, 2014.
  8. De Luna, P.; Fernandez, M.; Briard, J.; Woo, TK; and Ben RN, Synergetic Experimental and 3D-QSAR Screening of Ice Recrystallization Inhibitors for Organ and Blood Preservation. (Poster) Transformational Technologies in Materials Science (TTMS) Summer School. Madison, WI, USA. May 20th, 2014. (Hon. Mention)
  9. Collins, S.P.; Daff T.D.; Woo T.K., Materials Mating Game: Evolutionary Optimization of Nanoporous Materials for CO2 Capture. (Poster) Transformational Technologies in Molecular Simulation (TTMS). Madison, WI, USA. 20th May, 2014. (Hon. Mention)
  10. Provost, B.R.; Guo, L.; Daff, T.D.; Sutrisno, A.; Huang, Y.; Woo, T.K., Using Molecular Simulation to Aid in the Interpretation of Solid-State NMR of Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) 97th Canadian Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2014) (Physical, Theoretical and Computational Section, PTP- Poster Session). Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, BC. 2nd June, 2014.
  11. Kadantsev, E.; Provost, B.R.; Woo, T.K., Binding Site Analysis to Guide Discovery of High Performance CO2 Capture Sorbents. (Poster) Transformational Technologies in Molecular Simulation (TTMS). University of Madison, Madison, WI (USA). 20th May, 2014.
  12. Aljawahari, M.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T.K.,Building better computer models for CO2 capture materials: Simulating functional groups in MOFs. (Poster) Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Poster Session. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. 25 March 2014.
  13. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, Michael Fernandez, Tom K. Woo, Large-scale computational high throughput screening of nano-porous materials for post combustion carbon capture and storage. (oral) 247th ACS National Meeting. Division: Energy and Fuels, Symposium: Innovations in Carbon Dioxide Capture, Storage, Conversion and Utilization. Dallas, TX, USA. March 16 2014

2013

  1. Provost, B.R.; Guo, L.; Daff, T.D.; Sutrisno, A.; Huang, Y.; Woo, T.K., Using Molecular Simulation to Aid in the Interpretation of Solid-State NMR of Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) 16th Annual Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Research Conference (CBGRC). Concordia University, Montreal, QC. 22nd November, 2013.
  2. Provost, B.R.; Guo, L.; Daff, T.D.; Sutrisno, A.; Huang, Y.; Woo, T.K. Using Molecular Simulation to Aid in the Interpretation of Solid-State NMR of Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) 46th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW). York University, Toronto, ON. 9th November, 2013.
  3. T. D. Daff, S. P. Collins, T. K. Woo Property-based evolutionary design and optimisation of functionalised metal organic frameworks. (Oral) 46th Inorganic Discussion Weekend, York, ON, Canada. 8-10 November 2013
  4. Collins SP, Daff TD, Woo TK, Optimizing the Functionalization of Metal Organic Frameworks for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Using a Genetic Algorithm. (Poster) Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation Day. Ottawa, ON. 12th September, 2013.
  5. Kadantsev, E.; Provost, B.R.; Woo, T.K. Binding Site Analysis to Guide Discovery of High Performance CO2 Capture Sorbents. (Poster) Center for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI) Annual Meeting. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. 12th September, 2013.
  6. Provost, B.R.; Sutrisno, A.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T.K.; Huang, Y. Molecular Simulation as a Tool to Aid in Interpretation of 67Zn Solid State NMR for Characterization of Guest-Host Interactions in Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) Center for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI) Annual Meeting. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. 12th September, 2013.
  7. T. D. Daff, Virtual Screening Tools for the Optimization of Metal Organic Framework Materials for Carbon Capture and Storage. (Oral) Inventys, NSERC Interaction Grant. Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2nd August, 2013.
  8. Collins SP, The Materials Mating Game: Breeding MOFs for Low Cost CO2 Capture. (Oral) Inventys, NSERC Interaction Grant. Vancouver, BC. 2nd August, 2013.
  9. T. D. Daff, S. P. Collins, M. Fernandez, E.S. Kadantsev, P. G. Boyd, M. Zein Aghaji, B. Provost, T. K. Woo New computational tools for property-based evolutionary design and optimisation of metal organic frameworks for carbon capture. (Poster) Carbon Management Canada’s third annual conference, Calgary, AB, Canada. 3-5 June 2013 (runner up)
  10. Kadantsev, E.; Provost, B.R.; Woo, T.K. Binding Site Analysis to Guide Discovery of High Performance CO2 Capture Sorbents. (Poster) Carbon Management Canada (CMC) – National Centre of Excellence (NCE) Annual Conference. The Westin Hotel, Calgary, AB. 4th June, 2013
  11. Bulsink, P., Korobkov, I., Woo, T., Richeson, D., Transforming the Chemistry of Re(I) to Access the Elusive Pincer Geometry. (Poster), CSC2013 – Inorganic Chemistry Poster Symposium. Quebec, QC, Canada. 28 May, 2013. (Graduate Student Poster Award)
  12. Collins S.P., Mating and Breeding MOFs for Carbon Capture: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Material Property Optimization. (Oral) Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation Technical Seminar. Ottawa, ON. 28th February, 2013.
  13. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, Tom K Woo, Large-Scale Computational High Throughput Screening of Nano-Porous Materials for Post Combustion Carbon Capture and Storage. (poster) 3rd Carbon Management Canada Conference. Calgary, AB, CA. June 3-5, 2013

2012

  1. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, M. Fernandez, E. S. Kadantsev, T. K. Woo,Large Scale High Throughput Screening and Chemometric Analysis of Nanoporous Materials for Clean Energy Applications. (Oral) 2012 MRS Fall Meeting, Symposium QQ – Materials Informatics. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 25-30 November 2012
  2. M. Fernandez, T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, E. S. Kadantsev, N. Trefiak, T. K. Woo,Chemoinformatics Based Webserver Applications to Predict Gas Adsorption Properties in Nanoporous Materials. (Poster) 2012 MRS Fall Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 25-30 November 2012. (shortlisted finalist)
  3. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, E. S. Kadantsev, M. Fernandez, T. K. Woo, FA3PS A Code for Fully Automated Adsorption Analysis in Porous Solids for High Throughput Computational Screening. (Poster) 45th Inorganic Discussion Weekend. Ottawa, ON, Canada. 2-4 November 2012.
  4. Collins S.P., Daff T.D., Woo T.K., Optimizing the Functionalization of Metal Organic-Frameworks for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Using a Genetic Algorithm. (Poster) 45th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW). Ottawa, ON. 3rd November, 2012
  5. Provost, B.R.; Sutrisno, A.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T.K.; Huang, Y. Molecular Simulation as a Tool to Aid in Interpretation of 67Zn Solid State NMR for Characterization of Guest-Host Interactions in Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) 45th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. 3rd November, 2012.
  6. Provost, B.R.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T.K. How well do common force fields perform in predicting N2/CO2 selectivity in metal organic frameworks? (Poster) 45th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. 3rd November, 2012. (Poster Presentation Prize)
  7. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, E. S. Kadantsev, M. Fernandez, T. K. Woo, FA3PS A Code for Fully Automated Adsorption Analysis in Porous Solids for High Throughput Computational Screening. (Poster) 25th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. Guelph, ON, Canada. 22-27 July 2012.
  8. Provost, B.R.; Sutrisno, A.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T.K.; Huang, Y. Molecular Simulation as a Tool to Aid in Interpretation of 67Zn Solid State NMR for Characterization of Guest-Host Interactions in Metal Organic Frameworks. (Poster) 25th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CSTCC). University of Guelph, Guelph, ON. 24th July, 2012.
  9. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, T. K. Woo,High Throughput Screening of Nanoporous Materials for Clean Energy Applications. (Oral) 95th Canadian Chemistry Conference, Symposium PT7 – Diversity and Challenges of Inorganic Molecular and Materials Modelling. Calgary, AB, Canada, 26-30 May 2012.
  10. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, E. S. Kadantsev, M. Fernandez, T. K. Woo, FA3PS A Code for Fully Automated Adsorption Analysis in Porous Solids for High Throughput Computational Screening. (Poster) 95th Canadian Chemistry Conference. Calgary, AB, Canada. 26-30 May 2012.
  11. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, Eugene Kadantsev, Michael Fernandez, Mohammad Zein-Aghaji, Sean Collins, Bianca Provost, Tom K. Woo, Combinatorial Structure Generation and Virtual Screening of Hundreds of Thousands of Metal Organic Frameworks for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture. (oral) Inorganic Discussion Weekend 2012. Ottawa, ON, CA. November 4 2012.
  12. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, Michael Fernandez, Tom K Woo, In silico Construction of Metal Organic Framework Materials for High Throughput Virtual Screening and Data Mining of Materials for CO2 Capture. (poster) 25th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. Guelph, ON, CA. July 24, 2012

2011

  1. Provost, B.R.; Daff, T.D.; Woo, T. CO2 Capture in the Nanoporous Material ZIF-8. Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Poster Session. (Poster) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. 29th March, 2011
  2. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, B. R. Provost, Virtual High Throughput Screening of Nano-Porous Materials for Carbon Capture. (Poster) Jacques Cartier Colloquium on 21st Century Catalysis. Ottawa, ON, Canada. 29–30 September 2011.
  3. T. D. Daff, P. G. Boyd, B. R. Provost, Virtual High Throughput Screening of Nano-Porous Materials for Carbon Capture. (Poster) 2011 CCRI Annual Meeting. Ottawa, ON, Canada. 15 September 2011.
  4. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, David van Rijswijk, Tom K Woo, Advances in the Molecular Modeling of Metal Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Capture. (oral) 11th Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling Symposium. Montreal, QC, CA. June 4 2011.
  5. Peter G. Boyd, Thomas D Daff, Tom K Woo, Virtual High Throughput Screening of Nano-Porous Materials for Carbon Capture. (poster) 23me Entretiens Jacques Cartier Colloquium. Symposium: 21st Century Catalysis Science and Applications. Ottawa, ON, CA. September 29, 2011

2010 and Earlier

  1. Peter G. Boyd, Saman Alavi, David van Rijswijk, Tom K Woo, Investigations Into CO2 Selectivity and Storage Capacity of Metal Organic Frameworks: A Molecular Simulation Study. (poster) 239th ACS National Meeting. Division: Fuel Chemistry Symposium: Advances in Fuel Science and Technology. San Francisco, CA, USA. March 22, 201

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Room 26
Lab: 545 King Edward
2nd floor