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About the Hackathon	About	globe2

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The organizing team

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.