iDMT Summer School
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
23 September - 27 September 2024
iDMT Centre of Excellence is offering its first summer school in Digital Technologies for Chemical R&D. The summer school will be in person, limited to 20 participants, and held in Cambridge (UK) on September 23-27.
The school is aimed at industrial researchers interested in latest developments in AI for chemistry R&D and novel technologies for chemistry R&D. The school will cover the following topics and participants may chose specific practical sessions that will be run in parallel:
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Current advances in Bayesian optimisation for chemistry, Prof. Jose Hernandez Lobato
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An introduction to high-throughput chemistry, Prof. Matthew Gaunt
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An introduction to Computer Assisted Synthesis Planning, Prof. Alexei Lapkin
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Practical lab automation and machine learning, Dr Nicholas Jose, Accelerated Materials Ltd.
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Practical self-optimisation of reactions in flow, iDMT researchers
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Practical chemical robotics, iDMT researchers
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Practical synthesis planning with ML and chemoinformatics tools, Chemical Data Intelligence Ltd
Event Information
Please read before booking
Location: Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, CB2 1EW
Date: Monday 23 to Friday 27 September 2024
Cost (including all tuition materials, refreshments and a dinner at a University College):
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Participants from Academia: £350.00
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Participants from Industry: £1500.00
Payment by credit card only.
Please note that we do not offer accommodation as part of the course.
A list of various accommodation options can be found here (not exhaustive).
Please get in contact with us if you have any question regarding the summer school.
How to register
Please send an expression of interest by completing the form:
Please download the form, complete it and send back by email to
idmt@ch.cam.ac.uk
Once you are accepted on the course, you'll be sent the online payment link.
Details for Participants:
Summer School will start 10:30 am on Monday 23rd of September (registration and refreshments from 10:00)
Summer School will finish after lunch (2 pm) on Friday 27th.
On Monday please come to Reception of Chemistry and we'll take you to the lecture room (Todd Hamied). Lab sessions will be in the iDMT laboratories in the same building. Please bring your own safety glasses if you use prescription specs and have them. Otherwise we'll provide all necessary PPE.
We will be splitting the group into parallel sessions to ensure lab sessions are in small groups.
There will be tea/coffee/water available throughout the week. All lunches are provided for participants. We are inviting all participants to a college dinner on Tuesday (24 Sep). There will be open bar for networking and continuing discussions after sessions every day (apart from Tuesday).