The AC BO Hackathon was a 2-day virtual hackathon event hosted on 27-28 March 2024, organised by the Acceleration Consortium @ University of Toronto and Merck KGaA. The event included researchers at all levels who worked on projects applying Bayesian optimization for accelerated discovery in chemistry and materials science.

The organizing team

Sterling Baird Sterling Baird
Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto
Director of Training and Programs

Acknowledgements

We thank Ben Blaiszik, Kevin Jablonka, and the rest of the organizing team for the LLMs in Materials and Chemistry ‘23 Hackathon, for which this event is heavily templated off of.