From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Feb 14 00:22:01 2020 From: "Alex Brown alex.brown#ualberta.ca" To: CCL Subject: CCL: WATOC 2020 Call for abstracts now open Message-Id: <-53973-200214002027-4909-P2GK8/LVa9GcEdWp4ISlew[-]server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Alex Brown" Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:20:24 -0500 Sent to CCL by: "Alex Brown" [alex.brown^ualberta.ca] Dear Colleagues, The Organizing Committee of the 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2020) is pleased to announce that the portal for abstract submission is now open. Abstracts are due April 1, 2020. Early submission of abstracts is advised. The deadline for reduced registration fees is May 1, 2020. WATOC 2020 will be held from August 16-21, 2020 in Vancouver, Canada. The Congress will be held in the East Building of the Vancouver Convention Centre. Onsite registration for WATOC 2020 will open at noon on Sunday, August 16th and the Opening Ceremony will begin at 15:00. The Opening Ceremony will be followed by four plenary lectures by leading computational and theoretical chemists. The program will feature 12 plenary lectures, 252 invited lectures,180 oral presentations and a large number of poster presentations. All registered participants will enjoy a complimentary excursion Wednesday afternoon. WATOC 2020 will conclude with a Closing Ceremony from 12:10 to 12:50 on Friday, August 21. There will be four plenary lectures Friday morning. Russell Boyd (Chair), Alex Brown, Gino DiLabio and Stacey Wetmore WATOC 2020 Organizing Committee For more information, please visit www.WATOC2020.ca