Register here to attend Lee Cronin's AC seminar taking place in person at Bahen Centre for Information Technology or online via Zoom.
Bio
Lee Cronin is a Chemist. He is the Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and the Founder & CEO of Chemify. He is known for his approach to the digitization of chemistry and developing digital-to-chemical transformation known as Chemputing which can turn code into reactions and molecules. He has also developed a new theory for evolution and selection called assembly theory which aims to quantify and explain how selection can occur in chemistry before biology. Lee is also exploring how chemical systems can compute, and what is needed for the evolution of intelligence, as well as designing a new type of computational system that uses information encoded in chemical reactions and molecules.
Abstract
Lee Cronin will explain why ‘Chemputation’ is a universal approach to explore chemical reactivity, discovery of new reactions, and molecules, as well as program chemical synthesis that allows us to translate all procedures, manual or automatic, into a executable chemical programming language that can run the processes on a chemputer. This code is written in the world’s first universal programming language for chemistry: χDL (pronounced Chi-DL). This new approach maps into a universal programming language for chemistry that is accessible to ALL synthetic chemists and will work on ALL robotic systems (subject to suitable specification). We demonstrate that the process is universal, and by analogy with computation, we call systems capable of universally turning code into reliable chemistry and materials processes Chemputation.
Figure: Depiction of a chemical state machine (CSM) for synthesis that is capable ofChemputation. The input is a combination of reagents, process information andhardware addresses. The CSM organizes the reagents and the processes by using ascheduler that then gets executed in the hardware as a function of theavailable state until the product is formed.
About the AC Seminar Series
The Acceleration Consortium (AC) seminar series will explore perspectives on the future of AI for science, present cutting-edge research findings, enable collaborations, and offer training and upskilling opportunities. Presented both in-person and online, these seminars will host a diverse set of speakers on topics related to accelerated discovery across three tracks:
AC Distinguished Seminars: Leaders in the autonomous discovery community will share their findings and perspectives that are helping to shape future directions and address key challenges. These will be delivered in a hybrid format at University of Toronto.
AC Early Career Seminars: Early career researchers will present results from their latest publications, taking a technical dive into findings, methods, and tools. These will be delivered in a hybrid format at University of Toronto.
AC Virtual Training Seminars: Instructors will provide standalone introduction lectures and hands-on tutorials on topics related to self-driving labs with an emphasis on principles, literacy, and skills. These will be delivered virtually.
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