Sungkyunkwan University hosts Wiley international science forum for third straight year, a first

[Financial News]  Sungkyunkwan University said on the 12th that it had held the international academic event Wiley Small Science Symposium 2026 with global academic publisher Wiley on the 29th of last month at Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO).
The event has been held in Korea under Sungkyunkwan University's direction for three consecutive years, starting in 2024. According to the university, this is the first time the symposium, which has traveled around the world for more than 15 years, has been held in the same country for three consecutive years.
This year, the event was jointly organized by Sungkyunkwan University's Q-GAIA Center, part of its Anchor Project Group, the College of Engineering, the Sungkyun Global Research Center (SGRC), Ajou University, and the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. In conjunction with the society's fall international conference, participants shared the latest research findings under the theme “Quantum and AI in Materials, Modeling, and Manufacturing for Next-Generation Technologies.”
Susumu Kitagawa, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan and the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, took part as a special speaker and introduced the properties of flexible metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and directions for the development of materials science. In a Q&A session after his talk, Professor Kitagawa stressed that while AI is a useful tool for accelerating research, researchers' original imagination and curiosity are essential to new scientific discoveries.
Editorial board members of the international journals Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, and Small also attended the event and exchanged views with researchers from Korea and abroad.
Sungkyunkwan University plans to publish a special issue of the international journal Small following the symposium, showcasing research by faculty members of its College of Engineering.

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