1(meetings)= 2 3# PETSc Annual User Meetings 4 5The PETSc community hosts annual user meetings in order to foster 6continuous dialogue with our community. These yearly meetings allow us to (among other 7things): 8 9- Provide in-depth tutorials on how you can leverage the functionality in PETSc for your 10 research. 11- Highlight new functionality and progress made on long-term goals. 12- Celebrate science achievements made possible by advances to PETSc's features and 13 functionality. 14- Describe advancements made not only by the PETSc team but also by applications 15 developers and designers of simulation packages that use PETSc. 16- Receive valuable feedback on current or requested features. 17 18PETSc annual user meetings rely on two-way communication: PETSc developers provide insights into 19the latest developments, whereas PETSc users provide input on both technical and 20non-technical matters, hence aligning development with user needs. In particular, we 21encourage you to present work illustrating your own use of PETSc. We also invite you to 22contribute to the future of PETSc, helping identify strategies to encapsulate algorithmic 23advances in state-of-the-art software, making possible more accurate, predictive 24simulations by scientists and engineers. 25 26## Upcoming Meetings 27 28- The [2026 PETSc annual user meeting](https://www.firedrakeproject.org/firedrake_26.html) will be hosted by the Firedrake Team in Oxford, UK, during the week of June 1~5, 2026. PETSc occupies the first half of the meeting (June 1-3, 2026), for which you can register, but we encourage everyone to attend the whole week as many amazing things are going on in Firedrake Land. The link has all details including registration. Notice that students can register for the whole week, _including room and food_, for only £ 400. 29 30## Previous Meetings 31 32- {any}`Buffalo, New York, USA; May 20-21, 2025 <2025_meeting>` 33- {any}`Cologne, Germany; May 23-24, 2024 <2024_meeting>` 34- {any}`Chicago, Illinois, USA; June 5-7, 2023 <2023_meeting>` 35- [Atlanta, Georgia, USA; June 5-7, 2019](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2019/index.html) 36- [London, UK; June 4-6, 2018](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2018/index.html) 37- [Boulder, Colorado, USA; June 14-16, 2017](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2017/index.html) 38- [Vienna, Austria; June 28-30, 2016](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2016/index.html) 39- [Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; June 15-18, 2015](https://petsc.gitlab.io/annual-meetings/2015/index.html) 40 41See {any}`docs_meetings` for details on how the annual meetings' website is maintained. 42