World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

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World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
Abbreviation WATOC
Formation 1982[1]
Purpose promoting the field of theoretical and computational chemistry[2]
President
Walter Thiel
Website watoc.net

The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is a scholarly association founded in 1982 "in order to encourage the development and application of theoretical methods" in chemistry, particularly quantum chemistry and computational chemistry.[1] It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists,[1] but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists,[3] and in 2005 renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.[1]

Conferences

WATOC organizes a triennial world congress with over 1,000 participants in last years.[1][4]

# Name Date Year City Country Organizer
1 WATOC-1987 August 12–18 1987 100px Budapest Hungary Imre Csizmadia
2 WATOC-1990 July 8–14 1990 Toronto - ON - CN Tower bei Nacht2.jpg Toronto Canada Imre Csizmadia
3 WATOC-1993 July 18–25 1993 100px Toyohashi Japan Keiji Morokuma
4 WATOC-1996 July 7–12 1996 Skopusberg mit Universitaet.jpg Jerusalem Israel Amiram Goldblum
5 WATOC-1999 August 1–6 1999 London Thames Sunset panorama - Feb 2008.jpg London UK Mike Robb
6 WATOC-2002 August 6–9 2002 100px Lugano Switzerland Hans-Peter Lüth
7 WATOC-2005 January 16–21 2005 100px Cape Town South Africa Kevin Naidoo
8 WATOC-2008 September 14–19 2008 Sydney skyline at dusk - Dec 2008.jpg Sydney Australia Leo Radom
9 WATOC-2011 July 17–22 2011 100px Santiago de Compostela Spain Manuel Yáñez
Otilia Mó
10 WATOC-2014 October 5–10 2014 Santiago nocturno 2013.jpg Santiago de Chile Chile Alejandro Toro-Labbé
11 WATOC-2017 August 27 – September 1 2017 Germany München Monks.jpg Munich Germany Christian Ochsenfeld

It also organizes numerous smaller conferences on more specialized topics[citation needed].

Awards

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The association awards two yearly medals: the Schrödinger Medal to "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist",[5] and the Dirac Medal to "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist under the age of 40".[6]

List of presidents

Presidents of WATOC:[1]

# Name First year Last year
1 I. G. Csizmadia 1987 1990
2 Paul von Rague Schleyer 1990 1996
3 75px Henry F. Schaefer, III 1996 2005
4 Leo Radom 2005 2011
5 75px Walter Thiel 2011 2017

External links

References

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