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The annual meeting of the IAQMS was held in Menton, France, June 28-29, 2025.




The annual meeting of the IAQMS was held in Menton, France, on June 29-30, 2024.


• The 2024 Medal was awarded to

  Stella Stopkowicz (Saarland University, Germany)

  For her development of coupled-cluster methods that accurately treat atoms and molecules in strong magnetic fields, enabling the first spectrum assignment of a metal-containing strongly magnetized white dwarf.


• The following new IAQMS members were elected:

  Ludwik Adamowicz (University of Arizona)
  Irene Burghardt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
  Uwe Manthe (Universität Bielefeld)
  Christel Marian (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
  Kenneth Ruud (University of Tromsø)
  David Sherrill (Georgia Tech)
  

• Sunday, June 30, was fully dedicated to science, with talks by Members elected in 2023 and a mini-symposium on Quantum Computing with lectures by Academy Members: Garnet Chan, Giulia Galli, Martin Head-Gordon, Markus Reiher, Edward Valeev, Luuk Visscher, and Birgitta Whaley. The lectures were followed by a lively one-hour discussion.
• The annual meeting of the IAQMS was held at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, on June 25–26 2023, preceding the 17th ICQC held on June 26 – July 1. The IAQMS meeting was attended by 43 members.
  
• the 2023 Medal was awarded to

  Edit Mátyus (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

  For developments in high-precision theoretical quantum chemistry that combine non-Born–Oppenheimer effects, quantum electrodynamics and special relativity, all done with an emphasis on molecular systems that will play a central role in testing fundamental physics.




• the following new IAQMS members were elected:

  Sonia Coriani (DTU, Denmark)
  Clémence Corminbœuf (EPFL, Switzerland)
  Henrik Koch (NTNU, Norway and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy)
  Roland Lindh (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  Shaul Mukamel (University of California at Irvine, USA)
  Hiromi Nakai (Wasada University, Japan)
  Ed Valeev (Virginia Tech, USA)
  

• the following IAQMS Board was elected for the period 2023–2026:

  President: Gustavo Scuseria
  Vice-President: Joachim Sauer
  General Secretary: Laura Gagliardi
  Treasurer: Daniel Crawford
  Member at Large: Hiromi Nakai

• The 2022 IAQMS meeting was held online on June 18–19.
  • the Medal was awarded to

    Sandeep Sharma (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

    For his original contributions to the development of efficient algorithms in DMRG, selected CI and quantum Monte Carlo methods.

  
  
  
  • the following were elected as new members:

    Daniel Crawford (Virginia Tech, USA)
    Jeremy N. Harvey (KU Leuven, Belgium)
    Kenneth D. Jordan (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
    Markus Reiher (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
    

  
  
  • The 2021 IAQMS meeting was held online on June 19–20.
    • the Medal was awarded to

      Debashree Ghosh (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)

      For her creative applications of strongly correlated methods and a novel excited state scheme to elucidate bonding in molecules, with important applications to fluorescent protein systems and the bio-pigment melanin.

    
    
    
    • the following were elected as new members:

      Giulia Galli (University of Chicago, USA)
      Eberhard K. U. Gross (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
      Peter J. Rossky (Rice University, USA)
      Joachim Sauer (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
      

    
    
    • Odile Eisenstein and Laura Gagliardi have been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
      
      
      
      
      
    • The 2020 IAQMS meeting was held online on June 27
      • the Medal was awarded to

        Francesco Evangelista (Emory University, Atlanta, USA)

        For his significant contributions to multireference coupled cluster methods, the driven similarity renormalization group approach, adaptive configuration interaction, and quantum computing.

      
      
      
      • The 2019 IAQMS meeting was held in Menton, France, on July 6–7
        • the following were elected as new members

          Tucker Carrington (Queens University, Canada)
          Laura Gagliardi (University of Minnesota, USA)
          Péter Szalay (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
          Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
          Takeshi Yanai (Nagoya University, Japan)
          

        
        • the Medal was awarded to

          Julien Toulouse (Sorbonne University, France)

          For his deep and original contributions to the development of electron-correlation methods at the interface of wave-function theory (WFT) and density-functional theory (DFT), with important contributions to range-separated DFT, double-hybrid DFT, and the diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method.

        

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