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News in 2007

December 7-9: ALPS/DMFT workshop in Göttingen.
September 8-9: ALPS tutorial at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI); see talks.
July 2: The ALPS bugzilla is now online.
July 1-2: Developer workshop in Lausanne organized by Andreas Läuchli.
April 25: The ALPS Wiki is now online.
February 7: A pre-release version ALPS-1.3a1 compatible with Boost 1.33.1 has been published.

August 9: The ALPS paper is published as J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Suppl. 74, 30 (2005).

March 7: Invited talk on the ALPS project by Simon Trebst at the 2005 Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society , Berlin

November 23: Grzegorz Pawlowski prepared a special "live-CD" Linux distribution with ALPS pre-installed. cdALPS is a modified ClusterKnoppix, distribution ready to use on clusters and single workstations.

November 18: Release of version 1.2.2 of the ALPS applications and libraries implementing suggestions of the Lugano workshop:
Support for frustrated spin and boson systems in the quantum Monte Carlo applications
Added an evaluation program to the fulldiag application, allowing to make plots for the whole range of temperatures and fields after a single run of the fulldiag program.
Added an extended ensemble QMC program, implementing the quantum version of the Wang-Landau algorithm for Heisenberg spin systems
Added support for spins of different size to the classical Monte Carlo program

September 26 - October 1: First ALPS User Workshop was held in Lugano (Switzerland).

March 23: Invited talk on the ALPS project by Simon Trebst at the 2004 APS March meeting, Montreal