WATOC 2020 — 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

The WATOC Congress will feature 12 plenary lectures, 252 invited lectures, 180 invited communications and as many as 900 poster presentations in computational and theoretical chemistry. The program will cover a broad range of topics in method development and applications to chemistry, biochemistry, materials and nanoscience. The program will go beyond the traditional focus of computational and theoretical chemistry with presentations on quantum computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and many other contemporary topics. The program will cater to the interests of nonspecialists. Representatives of all the major software packages will participate in the congress. Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann will offer his perspective on the future of the field with the provocative title, Simulation versus Understanding, in the final plenary lecture of the congress.

Topics: Computational chemistry, theoretical chemistry, materials science, catalysis, medicinal chemistry, molecular dynamics simulations, biochemistry, nanoscience, machine learning, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, software development, advanced electronic structure methods.