World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

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 theoretical 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]

World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
AbbreviationWATOC
Formation1982[1]
Purposepromoting the field of theoretical and computational chemistry[2]
President
Peter Gill
Websitewatoc.net

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
Henry Rzepa
6 WATOC-2002 August 6–9 2002 Lugano Switzerland Hans-Peter Lüthi
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
12 WATOC-2020 August 16 – 21 2020 Vancouver-bridge Vancouver Canada Russell J. Boyd
13 WATOC-2025 June 22 – 27 2025 Downtown Oslo Oslo Norway Trygve Helgaker

Awards
Main article: Schrödinger Medal

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

Recipients of the Dirac Medal
For other prizes named after Paul Dirac, see Dirac Medal.

Source: WATOC

  • 1998: Timothy J. Lee
  • 1999: Peter M. W. Gill
  • 2000: Jiali Gao
  • 2001: Martin Kaupp
  • 2002: Jerzy Cioslowski
  • 2003: Peter Schreiner
  • 2004: Jan Martin
  • 2005: Ursula Röthlisberger
  • 2006: Lucas Visscher
  • 2007: Anna Krylov
  • 2008: Kenneth Ruud
  • 2009: Jeremy Harvey
  • 2010: Daniel Crawford
  • 2011: Leticia González
  • 2012: Paul Ayers
  • 2013: Filipp Furche
  • 2014: Denis Jacquemin
  • 2015: Edward Valeev
  • 2016: Johannes Neugebauer
  • 2017: Francesco Evangelista
  • 2018: Erin Johnson
  • 2019: Satoshi Maeda
  • 2020: Alexandre Tkatchenko
  • 2021: Edit Matyus
  • 2022: Katharina Boguslawski

List of presidents

Presidents of WATOC:[1]

# Name First year Last year
1 Imre Csizmadia, taken in 1987 at the WATOC conference Imre Gyula Csizmadia 1987 1990
2 Paul Schleyer taken in 1987 Paul von Rague Schleyer 1990 1996
3 Henry F. Schaefer, III 1996 2005
4 Leo Radom Leo Radom 2005 2011
5 Walter Thiel 2011 2017
6 Peter Gill 2017 2025

References
  1. "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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