World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

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 Budapest Hungary Imre Csizmadia
2 WATOC-1990 July 8–14 1990 Toronto Canada Imre Csizmadia
3 WATOC-1993 July 18–25 1993 Toyohashi Japan Keiji Morokuma
4 WATOC-1996 July 7–12 1996 Jerusalem Israel Amiram Goldblum
5 WATOC-1999 August 1–6 1999 London UK Mike Robb
6 WATOC-2002 August 6–9 2002 Lugano Switzerland Hans-Peter Lüth
7 WATOC-2005 January 16–21 2005 Cape Town South Africa Kevin Naidoo
8 WATOC-2008 September 14–19 2008 Sydney Australia Leo Radom
9 WATOC-2011 July 17–22 2011 Santiago de Compostela Spain Manuel Yáñez
Otilia Mó
10 WATOC-2014 October 5–10 2014 Santiago de Chile Chile Alejandro Toro-Labbé
11 WATOC-2017 August 27 – September 1 2017 Munich Germany Christian Ochsenfeld

It also organizes numerous smaller conferences on more specialized topics.

Awards

Main article: Schrödinger Medal

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 Henry F. Schaefer, III 1996 2005
4 Leo Radom 2005 2011
5 Walter Thiel 2011 2017

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "WATOC - History". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "WATOC - Home". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  3. ↑ For instance, in 2005 it was called "World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists" as can be seen in the poster for WATOC-2005 congress: "WATOC-2005. Modelling Structure and Reactivity. 7th World Congress of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists" (PDF). World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "WATOC - Congress". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "WATOC - Schroedinger". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dirac - medal". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
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