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    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.

    • Ghosh

    • 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.

      • Ghosh

      • 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.

        • Ghosh

        • 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.

          Eisenstein Gagliardi

        • 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.

          • Evangelista

          • 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)

            • Carrington Gagliardi Szalay Whaley Yanai
            • 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.

            • Toulouse

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