General Information

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Theoretical Chemistry (JSTC) will be held at the University of Tsukuba from May 21 to 23, 2024. Oral presentations, poster sessions, special symposiums, and a banquet are scheduled in person. Please join us for interesting and lively discussions.
Young researchers and graduate students are encouraged to participate, and awards will be presented. This year, the number of poster award winners will be increased.
We look forward to your participation.

* Please cooperate us to survey your accomodation at the conference registration desk to recieve support from Tsukuba citiy.

Important Dates

What's New

Apply for a Presentation

　You can submit your presentation for this meeting. The types of presentations include oral and poster, and all presentations will be held in person (on-site). Final decisions on presentations are made by the executive committee. Your understanding and cooperation are highly appreciated.

　The above presentation times are tentative at the current early stage. The final timetable will be announced after the registration application is closed. Oral presenters are requested to bring their own laptop computers. Please check the computer connection before the start of your session. In case of any problems, please bring your presentation file in a USB memory or upload it to the cloud drive. Please also note the following.

• Oral presentations will be limited to two applicants per laboratory. If more than three presentations are applied, you may be asked to change your oral presentation to a poster.
• Title and short abstract within 200 words for program organization must be prepared in advance.
• In case of registrations exceeding the limit, priority for presentation will be reserved for JSTC members.

Awards

　Japan Society of Theoretical Chemistry (JSTC) presents the best presentation award and the best poster awards to young JSTC members who give excellent oral or poster presentations at the annual meeting.

Application Requirements

* payment should be completed by April 10, 2024.

Information for awards

• Please apply for the award at the time of submitting your presentation application. Please note that changes in title and authors after the completion of the abstract submission will be considered a declination of the award application.
• Provide your JSTC membership number for eligibility verification. Cooperate with us in the age verification and grade assessment for presentation and poster award applicants, respectively.
• If you have previously received the same award at a past JSTC annual meeting, you cannot apply for the same category of the award. This means past poster award winners can apply for the presentation award and vice versa. However, the same content of the research is not applicable.

About selection

• Based on the presentations, the selection committee will conduct a review. In the case of numerous applicants, preliminary selection will be determined by the evaluation of abstracts.
• If there is a change in the type of presentation due to program organization, the award application will be adjusted accordingly.
• The recipient of the best presentation award will receive a certificate of commendation and an additional prize, along with a 1-year subscription to the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) journals (BCSJ, Chem.Lett.), supported by CSJ.
• The best poster award winner will be presented with a certificate of commendation, generously supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom (RSC) and CSJ. Approximately 2 winners will be selected for this prestigious honor.
• The names of the award winners will be officially announced via JSTC approximately 1 month after the annual meeting. Additionally, announcements will be published on this annual meeting website, the JSTC website, and via the mailing list.

Registration Fees

• Registration fees are reduced for JSTC Members. Non-members can also apply for presentations.
• Membership number is required for JSTC members at the online registration.
• Joining to JSTC and checking of your membership number can be available via JSTC website.
• Please check your membership status at registrating and transfering the fees.
• Conference proceedings including the submitted abstracts will be available on the Web, and they are not printed on paper.
• The banquet fee shown in the above table does not include the registration fee.

Payment

• The following explanation is about domestic remittance. International money transfers are not supported.
• Please complete your online registration before your payment.
• If you use postal transfer and ATM, please specify your name and issued ID, which is announced in the automatic email individually after your online registration. For example, TaroTsukuba36E.
• If you use a payment slip, please specify your address, name, issued ID, telephone number, and payment amount in the message column.
• The information of account name and account number are shown as follows.

• To complete the payment with a bank other than Japan Post Bank, kindly provide your address, name, issued ID, telephone number, and payment amount in the message column.

• No monetary refunds will be given for any reason after the payment is completed.
• Please retain the payment statement to prevent money transfer issues.
• The bank transfer fee is not included in the registration fees. Please bear this expense.
• If the ealy registration period (April 26, 2024) has passed, payment must be made at the reception desk on the day of your visit at the price of the late registration.
• International remittance is not permitted by the Japan Post Bank. For participants who live abroad and are unable to send money domestically, please pay locally at the conference registration desk in cash. Credit cards are not accepted. Please note that presenters must complete their pre-registration and abstract submission by March 22 and April 12, respectively. The billing price of fees depends on the day of your online-registration. In other words, whether before April 26 or after.
• Receipts will be issued at the conference registration desk.

Abstract Submission

Abstract submission was closed on April 14.

Basic Format of Abstract

Abstract should be prepared in the following fomat.

• Please make within one page of A4 size and set all margins to 25 mm wide.
• Add presentation number on the upper left side. This number will be cross-referenced in the program.
• The standard font type is "Times New Roman". Please use the size according to the details in the abstract template.
• Please note that submitted abstracts will be accessible on the web with password protection.
• The abstract book will be provided only in color and PDF format. No printed booklets will be produced.

ABSTRACT TEMPLATE

Program

The abstracts can be downloaded from the following link. Only the abstracts are password-protected. Other parts can be viewed without password. The password will be sent to the registrants after the registration fee has been paid.

File name	update date
Abstract (password-protected)	5/13
Time table	4/25
Program（List of Presenters）	5/8
Guide	4/30
Access	5/7
Advertisement	4/25

Access

• University Hall (47, in University Hall Area), University of Tsukuba
• Please take a bus No. C10 from bus stop No.6 at Tsukuba station (Tsukuba Center), Tsukuba Express (TX). The nearest bus stop is "Daigaku Kaikan Mae". If you take the C10 clockwise bus (右回), please note that the entrance to the building is on the opposite side after you get off.

Members of executive committee

as of April 1, 2024. *chairperson, **vice-chairperson

Contact

Executive Committee of the 26th Annual Meeting of JSTC

E-MAIL ： theochem26[at]jstc.org（Please change [at] into @）