CCL: Announcement of the release of ORCA 6.0

 Sent to CCL by: "Frank  Neese" [neese,,kofo.mpg.de]
 Dear CCL community!
 The ORCA quantum chemistry program suite has grown into one of the largest and
 most widely used
 quantum chemistry packages world-wide and we are most grateful for your ongoing
 support and
 enthusiasm! ORCA gives academic users (for free; download from https://lnkd.in/eF6nxi98)
 and industrial
 users (via licenses obtained from FAccTs; https://www.faccts.de/) to state of the art methodology that
 is
 an exceptionally powerful companion to experimental studies.
 After almost exactly 3 years of exceptionally hard work, the development team is
 very excited to
 announce that ORCA 6.0.0 will be released on
                                       Thursday, July 25th, 2024
 As for ORCA 5 before, there will be a *two day* online release event on July
 25th and 26th, 2024.
 The release event will start with an overview of the changes in the code,
 benchmarks and the new
 features followed by more detailed talks that highlight and explain the new
 features.
 Since ORCA has tens of thousands of users world-wide, we will stream the release
 event twice: one time
 in the morning (probably 8:00 CET) which will allow our users in the western
 hemisphere to attend and
 one time in evening (probably around 18:00 CET) such that our users in the
 eastern hemisphere can
 attend. As last time, the talks will be pre-recorded and the respective experts
 will be online for vivid and
 lively online discussion during the stream.
 We will post the details on the online access to the meeting will be made
 available at the ORCA forum in
 due course and will also announce it on social media.
 ORCA 6 is a major turning point for the ORCA project and will pave the way into
 the future.
 Hence, please stay tuned and we hope that we see many of you at the release
 event!
 Best wishes,
 Frank Neese on behalf of the ORCA development team.