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# PETSc Annual User Meetings

The PETSc community hosts annual user meetings in order to foster
continuous dialogue with our community. These yearly meetings allow us to (among other
things):

- Provide in-depth tutorials on how you can leverage the functionality in PETSc for your
  research.
- Highlight new functionality and progress made on long-term goals.
- Celebrate science achievements made possible by advances to PETSc's features and
  functionality.
- Describe advancements made not only by the PETSc team but also by applications
  developers and designers of simulation packages that use PETSc.
- Receive valuable feedback on current or requested features.

PETSc annual user meetings rely on two-way communication: PETSc developers provide insights into
the latest developments, whereas PETSc users provide input on both technical and
non-technical matters, hence aligning development with user needs. In particular, we
encourage you to present work illustrating your own use of PETSc. We also invite you to
contribute to the future of PETSc, helping identify strategies to encapsulate algorithmic
advances in state-of-the-art software, making possible more accurate, predictive
simulations by scientists and engineers.

## Upcoming Meetings

- The `2026 PETSc annual user meeting` is to be (tentatively) hosted by Imperial College, near London, UK, during the week of June 1~5, 2026. Please check back later for further details.  

## Previous Meetings

- {any}`Buffalo, New York, USA; May 20-21, 2025 <2025_meeting>`
- {any}`Cologne, Germany; May 23-24, 2024 <2024_meeting>`
- {any}`Chicago, Illinois, USA; June 5-7, 2023 <2023_meeting>`
- [Atlanta, Georgia, USA; June 5-7, 2019](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2019/index.html)
- [London, UK; June 4-6, 2018](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2018/index.html)
- [Boulder, Colorado, USA; June 14-16, 2017](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2017/index.html)
- [Vienna, Austria; June 28-30, 2016](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2016/index.html)
- [Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; June 15-18, 2015](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2015/index.html)

See {any}`docs_meetings` for details on how the annual meetings' website is maintained.
