{"id":1,"date":"2013-09-25T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woolab.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:19:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Woo Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-2848\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-111-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-2848 ml-slider has-dots-nav has-carousel-mode ms-theme-clarity\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Main Page\" data-height=\"300\" data-width=\"290\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_2848\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_2848\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-3006 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-05-17 11:56:30\" data-filename=\"slider_samosa.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.jcim.4c01897\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"View Slide Details\" class=\"metaslider_image_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1075\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/slider_samosa.jpg\" class=\"slider-2848 slide-3006 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"slider_samosa\" srcset=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/slider_samosa.jpg 1075w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/slider_samosa-269x300.jpg 269w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/slider_samosa-917x1024.jpg 917w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/slider_samosa-768x857.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; 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Our group is also heavily involved in advanced scientific computing and we run our own recently-upgraded 2000+ CPU core and GPU high performance computing facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?page_id=483\">see our group publication list<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?page_id=487\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Recent Group News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3413\">July 2026 &#8211; Congratulations Marco for winning runner-up best contributed oral presentation award<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3399\">July 2026 &#8211; Canadian Symposium for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Ottawa<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3388\">May 2026 &#8211; Congratulations to Andrew for winning best student oral presentation at the CSC<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3349\">March 2026 &#8211; Compute Ontario highlight&#8217;s the Woo lab&#8217;s research.<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3342\">March 2026 &#8211; Group Hockey Game Outing<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3330\">Feb. 2026 &#8211; New group members Grace and Aziz defeated by the Pho Challenge.<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3304\">Feb. 2026 -Our MOSAEC-DB paper part of the most popular porous materials collection in Chemical Science<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3184\">June 2025 &#8211; Andrew, Jake, Marco, Ohmin, Jun &#038; Rosa present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference(CSC 2025)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3111\">May 2025 &#8211; Andrew&#8217;s MOSAEC paper has been published in JACS<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?page_id=487\">All Group News Posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the research web page of Professor Tom Woo, at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, the University of Ottawa.\u00a0 We are situated in the beautiful city of Ottawa \u2013 Canada\u2019s National Capital.\u00a0Our principle research interests lie in the fields of computational chemistry, machine learning and their applications to carbon capture and storage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":102,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}