We are happy to announce the release of the Dalton quantum chemistry program, Release 1.0 (1997) to the computational chemistry/physics community. Dalton is a complete, powerful quantum chemistry program for the calculation of molecular properties with SCF, MP2 or MCSCF wave functions. The strengths of the program are mainly in the areas of magnetic and (frequency-dependent) electric properties, and for studies of molecular potential energy surfaces, both for static and dynamical investigations, as well as stable algorithms for converging large MCSCF wave functions (also excited states).

The program is distributed freely to all academic users, although we require all users to sign a copyright and license agreement.

For more complete information on how to obtain a copy of the program, more information about what the program can and can not do, please check out our homepage at http://www.kjemi.uio.no/software/dalton/dalton.html, or send an e-mailto dalton-admin@kjemi.uio.no. The complete author list of the program is:

T.Helgaker, H.J.Aa.Jensen, P.Joergensen, J.Olsen, K.Ruud, H.AAgren, T.Andersen, K.L.Bak, V.Bakken, O.Christiansen, P.Dahle, E.K.Dalskov, T.Enevoldsen, B.Fernandez, H.Heiberg, H.Hettema, D.Jonsson, S.Kirpekar, R.Kobayashi, H.Koch, K.V.Mikkelsen, P.Norman, M.J.Packer, T.Saue, P.R.Taylor, and O.Vahtras