wins the Springer Thesis Award. His doctoral dissertation "Uniaxial pressure study of charge density waves in a high-T_c cuprate superconductor" was selected for the Springer Thesis Award, which implies publication in book form in the Springer Theses series. Hun-ho Kim had graduated with distinction from the University of Stuttgart in 2020. (03.2021)

is the recipient of the 19^th CNR Rao Award Lecture, awarded by the Chemical Research Society of India. The lecture will be virtually given during the 27^th CRSI-NSC Conference at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India. (04.2021)

The 2021 KS Pitzer Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, has been delivered by Ali Alavi. His lecture entitled "A Blast from the Past" describes the work of his department on using the FCIQMC technique to revive the Unitary Group Approach and Transcorrelation, both powerful formalisms of quantum chemistry which had been developed in the 1970s but largely abandoned due to enormous technical difficulties in their implementation. Ali says that the amazing advances made by his group has revitalised some old but extremely powerful ideas in quantum chemistry, and we are using them to crack some old chestnuts, including the mysteries in the electronic structure of complex biological catalysts such as Fe-S complexes. (04.2021)