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The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science wants to make the following announcements:

Prof. Isaiah Shavitt passed away on December 8th, 2012. He was one of the pioneers of large-scale configuration interaction calculations. We will pay our respects to him at the next IAQMS meeting.
In June 2012, Wolfgang Domcke received the honorary doctorate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Pekka Pyykkö has been elected Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Donations in memory of Prof. Leland Allen of Princeton University, who has recently passed away, are being accepted. The initiative for setting up a memorial fund originated with one of his early students, Prof. Arthur Lesk of Penn State University, who made the first donation. If you wish to honor Leland Allen's memory by a contribution, please send it to the IAQMS Treasurer:

Dr. Michel Dupuis
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
MS K1-83
902 Battelle Boulevard
PO Box 999
Richland WA 99352 USA

The fund will be used for operating expenses of the IAQMS, such as the production of award medals and support of ICQC attendance by students.
Prof. Nicholas Handy passed away on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. We will keep him and his numerous contributions to our science in our collective memory and will pay our respects to him at the next IAQMS meeting.
The address of his wife is
Mrs Carole Handy
Hall Garth
Thornthwaite
Keswick
Cumbria CA12 5RZ, UK
The 15th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry will be held on June 8-13, 2015 at Tsinghua University, Beijing. The website of ICQC-15 is open at external link. Details, contact Professor Zhigang Shuai.
The 49^th meeting of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science was held in Boulder on June 24–25, 2012.
1. The following six people were elected as new members of the Academy:
  Poul Jørgensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
  Georg Kresse (University of Vienna, Austria)
  Frank Neese (Max-Planck-Institut, Mülheim, Germany)
  Andreas Savin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France)
  Peter A. Schwerdtfeger (Massey University, New Zealand)
  Seiichiro Ten-no (Kobe University, Japan)
2. The Medal for 2012 was awarded to Paul W. Ayers (McMaster University, Canada). The citation to accompany the medal is "For his outstanding contributions to density functional theory and chemical reactivity theory."
Henry F. Schaefer III has received the 2012 Distinguished Scientist Award of SURA (The Southeastern Universities Research Association).
Trygve Helgaker has received the Moebius Prize of the Norwegian Research Council.
With deep sadness we receive the news that our member Eolo Scrocco passed away on January 24, 2012.
Zhigang Shuai has been elected as a foreign member to Academia Europea. He also won the Akzo Nobel Chemical Sciences Award 2012, awarded jointly between Akzo and the Chinese Chemical Society.
In July 2011 Sigrid Peyerimhoff was awarded the degree "Doctor rer.nat. honoris causa" by the University of Ulm.
Our President Pekka Pyykkö has been elected as a foreign member to The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The American Chemical Society has granted, among its 2012 National Awards, William L. Jorgensen the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical & Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, and Weitao Yang the Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.
The 48 ^th meeting of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science was held in Menton on July 2–3, 2011.
1. The following three people were elected as new members of the Academy.
  Jean-Luc Brédas (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Wim Klopper (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  H. Bernhard Schlegel (Wayne State University)
2. The Medal for 2011 was awarded to Andreas Köhn (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany) for his contributions to explicitly correlated and multi-reference coupled cluster theories.
We have been deeply grieved to learn that our member Alberte Pullman passed away on 7 January 2011. She was one of the early pioneers in applications of quantum chemistry to biological problems, and a tall figure in our area, especially in France.
John Perdew and Bill Jorgensen were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. We congratulate John and Bill to this honor.
We have been deeply grieved to learn that our member William Nunn Lipscomb Jr., emeritus professor at Harvard, and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 1976, passed away at age 91 in Cambridge, Mass. on April 14, 2011.
The 47 ^th meeting of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science was held in Menton on July 3–4, 2010.
1. The following people were elected as new members of the Academy.
  William L. Jorgensen (Yale University)
  Nancy Makri (University of Illinois)
  Krishnan Raghavachari (Indiana University)
  Krzysztof Szalewicz (University of Delaware)
2. Annual Medal of the Academy was awarded to Garnet K.-L. Chan (Cornell University). The citation to accompany the medal is “For his outstanding contribution to the density matrix renormalization group theory of molecular systems.”
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Our member Kendall Houk has been elected to the US National Academy of Science. The Academy congratulates Ken to this honor.
Bill Miller has been awarded the 2011 Ahmed Zewail prize in Molecular Sciences for his outstanding contributions to the theory of chemical reactions. The Academy congratulate Bill on the Award.
Kwang Kim was awarded the honor of a National Scientist, the highest prize in academia in Korea. The Academy congratulates Kwang to this honor.
Shigeki Kato passed away on March 31 at the age of 61 after a long disease. Our community has lost an excellent colleague rather prematurely. The President offers his condolences to the bereaved family.
Kendall Houk received "Arthur C. Cope Award" of the Americal Chemical Society. The Academy congratulates Ken on this Award.
We have been deeply grieved to learn that our member Björn Roos passed away on February 22nd after a long sickness.
He was the great pioneer in the development and applications of theoretical/computational chemistry of his era. A great loss for quamtum chemistry. The President offered his condolences to the bereaved family.
Quantum Molecular Science (QMS) in the World has been released.
The 14th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) will be held on June 25–30, 2012 at Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Details, contact Professor Josef Michl.
Pekka Pyykkö received in 2009 the decoration Les Palmes Académiques granted by the French Minister of Education.
2009 is the first year that the American Chemical Society has elected Fellows. In the inaugural class of 162 the following IAQMS members have been elected,
Mark Gordon
Roald Hoffmann
Ken Houk
Fritz Schaefer
George Schatz
Don Truhlar
John Tully
The Academy congratulates them to this honour.
The S F Boys - A Rahman Award 2009 of the Royal Society for outstanding innovative research in the area of computational chemistry, including both quantum chemistry and molecular simulations, was awarded to Rodney Bartlett. The Academy congratulates Rod on this prestigious Award.
The 46 ^th meeting of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science was held Helsinki, Finland,, on June 21-22, 2009.
1. The following people were elected as new members of the Academy.
  Emily A. Carter (Princeton University, USA)
  Jürgen Gauss (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, German)
  Kwang S. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
  Mel Levy (Tulane University and North Carolina A&T State University)
  Gustavo E. Scuseria (Rice University, USA)
  John F. Stanton (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
2. Annual Medal of the Academy was awarded to Mihály Kállay (The Technical University of Budapest). The citation to accompany the medal is “for his innovative and pioneering contribution to algorithmic development for generating and implementing highly accurate many-body formulations.”
3. The Bureau 2009–2012 is: President: Pekka Pyykkö, Vice President: Josef Michl, Secretary: Kimihiko Hirao, Treasurer: Mark Gordon, Fifth Member: Jean-Marie André.
The 2008 Schrödinger Medal of WATOC was awarded to Rod Bartlett for his outstanding work on the systematic development of correlated wave function methods, especially many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory.
The XIII^th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) was held on June 22–27, 2009 in Helsinki, Finland.
Mark Gordon received the American Chemical Society Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research in recognition of “his advancement and use of rigorous quantum computational methods in the elucidation of chemical structures and reactions of major relevance.” The Academy congratulates on this Award.
Jean-Marie André was elected a member of l'Academia Europaea. We congratulate Jean-Marie to this honor.
Joshua Jortner was awarded the 2008 EMET Prize (Section ExactSciences) “for his unique and original works, which led to the formation of many areas within physical chemistry, and shaped thinking patterns in the fields of molecular relaxation, electron-transfer processes, photoselective chemistry and the chemistry of molecular clusters, and for his significant contributions to academic research in Israel and worldwide.” The Academy congratulates to this Award.
The Patria Prize from Unipetrol in the framework of the CESKA HLAVA Project in the Czech Republic was awarded 2008 to Josef Paldus. This prize is awarded to a Czech person with extraordinary achievements abroad in the area of basic or applied research or technological innovation. We congratulate Joe to this honour.
Inga Fischer-Hjalmars passed away on Sept. 17, 2008 at the age of 90 years. She had great influence on the development of theoretical chemistry in Sweden, using both, semiempirical and ab initio methods. Björn Roos and Per Siegbahn, both members of our Academy, were students of her. She was elected member of IAQMS in 1983. The President offered her condolences to the bereaved family.
In September 2008 Don Truhlar received the Schrödinger Medal of WATOC “for his outstanding contributions to the theory and computation of chemical reaction dynamics in ground and excited states.” Don Truhlar will receive the Dudley R. Herschbach Award for “bold and architectural works, inspiring and empowering in the field of the dynamics of molecular collisions.” The Award will be presented July 9, 2009, at the Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions in Snowbird, Utah. We congratulate Don to both honours!
In June 2008 Josef Paldus was awarded the degree “Doctor honoris causa” by the Université Louis Pasteur at Strassburg. The Academy congratulates to this honour.
At the National ACS meeting in Salt Lake City in March 2009, four members will receive ACS Awards: Bob Parr in Theoretical Chemistry, Odile Eisenstein in Organometallic Chemistry, Mark Gordon for his use of Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, and Roald Hoffmann for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public. The Academy congratulates to these Awards.