{"id":3399,"date":"2026-08-03T14:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:09:52","slug":"july-2026-canadian-symposium-for-theoretical-and-computational-chemistry-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"July 2026 &#8211; Canadian Symposium for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 2026 &#8211; 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).\u00a0 There were over 150 participants and 84 posters presented.<\/p>\n<p>Marco presented a contributed talk titled &#8216; <span class=\"fontstyle0\">Greater than the sum of its parts\u2014Efficient ML Interatomic Potentials for <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">DFT-Quality Simulations of MOFs via Fragment-Based Approaches&#8217; that was awarded runner-up best contributed talk award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lab also presented the following posters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jun&#8217;s poster: MOF-HydrA: <i>A Lightweight<\/i> ML-based Proton Assigner Capable of Restoring Missing Protons on \u03bc-sites in Metal-Organic Frameworks<\/li>\n<li>Raikhan&#8217;s poster: High-throughput computational screening of metal organic frameworks for propane\/propene separation<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Jake&#8217;s poster #1: DeepAPD: Graph Neural Network Prediction of Adsorbate Binding Landscapes <\/span>in Metal\u2013Organic Frameworks<\/li>\n<li>Jake&#8217;s poster #2: <span class=\"fontstyle0\">First\u2013Principles Prediction of Fundamental and Optical Gaps in Metal\u2013Organic <\/span>Frameworks<\/li>\n<li>Andrew&#8217;s poster: <span class=\"fontstyle0\">Generative ML of 3D-periodic Materials using a Novel Invertible and Invariant Graph Encoding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Grace&#8217;s poster: GraNMa Bond Typer: A Machine Learning Model for Determining Bond Types in Metal-Containing Compounds<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Syndey&#8217;s poster: Do Erroneous Metal-Organic Frameworks Impact the Predictive Abilities of Machine Learning Models for Gas Isotherms?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-Jake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3400\" src=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-Jake-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-Jake-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-Jake-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-boat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3402\" src=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-boat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-boat-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-boat-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-boat-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-CSTCC-boat.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-Jun-CSTCC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3403\" 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Marco presented a contributed talk titled &#8216; Greater than the sum of its parts\u2014Efficient ML Interatomic Potentials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front_page_news","category-general_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/titan.chem.uottawa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}