Virtual Integration of Synthesis with Theory and AI

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VISTA Symposium on Artificial-Intelligence and Data-Science assisted Synthesis​

July 13th-July20th, from 3PM CEST

What is VISTA

Virtual Integration of Synthesis with Theory and AI

VISTA  is an online platform to engage and improve the awareness of the synthetic community with theory and AI. VISTA wants to harness this synergy by taking a multi-faceted approach: (1) maintaining a database of important Computational and ML related papers that helps synthetic chemists to quickly have an introduction of a new topic (2) Provide selective links to the free study materials, books and other online resources to the synthesis practitioners to quickly familiarize themselves with the new interface  (3) Organize seminars, research spotlights and provide an opportunity for networking and disseminate new result in an ‘open access’ format. (4) Engage with world renowned experts to identify ongoing challenges. All these will ultimately culminate in creating a new workforce of educators, scientists, and practitioners with advanced chemical synthesis, Computation and AI/ML skills, who with their interdisciplinary outlook will be more equipped towards solving new global challenges.

Our Vision

Contemporary Synthetic Chemistry (Organic, Organometallic, Inorganic, Bio catalysis, Polymer Chemistry etc.) has added multiple new facets in its repertoire, and undergoing rapid change in order to cope up with the growing demand of the twenty-first century. Central to this transformation is the use of modern computation and smart Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning tools, that has shown promise to make synthesis more modular, smarter and automated. While it is highly desirable that all synthetic chemistry practitioners to be aware of the of this changing landscape but the reality is often more complicated! Due to high labor intensive nature of the work, sheer pressure to publish research and looming deadline for grant submission, students, researchers and educators barely have any time and motivation to move outside their comfort zone to acquire further skill. Recognizing these practical challenges, we embarked on creating this virtual platform (VISTA) that can assist the synthetic community to quickly familiarize themselves to the new techniques and growing literature related to the state-of-the art computation and AI.

How it Works

The main goal of the VISTA is to gather useful content within a single platform so that any non-specialist can easily access them without wasting a lot of time and energy. While we do not create any original content by ourselves, to muster contents we heavily rely on the ‘open access’ materials, reaching out to experts in academia and industry, and also research centers. Our content selection is focused towards a more end-user point of view and therefore include several demo videos and practical tips. We always welcome new ideas and advices. Once someone make significant contribution, his/her effort will be appreciated on the website! If you would like to contribute in VISTA with new ideas, please write us @XXX.

FUNDING

This Website is primarily supported by the Networking contribution from the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Grant

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