In 2025, Parcels will be 10 years old!
To celebrate this milestone, we are planning a workshop-conference-hackathon-party in Utrecht from October 1-3, 2025.
Please join us for this free event! You can attend in-person in Utrecht or virtually online.
The goal of the event is to showcase how Parcels is used by different researchers, and learn from each other. There will be workshops, tutorials, hackathons and a mini-conference.
You will also be able to sneak-peak and test-drive the first (pre)release of the new Parcels v4, a major, radical overhaul of the Parcels codebase. Parcels v4 will be even more powerful and versatile - including support for unstructured grids!
The event will end with a party on Friday evening 3 October 2025, in Utrecht. This is to celebrate how far we’ve come, and to thank you all for your contributions and engagement over the years.
Interested to join? 👉 Sign up via this form! 👈#
Preliminary schedule:#
- Wednesday 1 October
- Workshop, tutorials and/or hackathons (in Utrecht and online)
- Thursday 2 October
- Workshop, tutorials and/or hackathons (in Utrecht and online)
- Friday 3 October
- Scientific conference with presentations from Parcels users (in Utrecht and online)
- Friday evening 3 October
- Party (in Utrecht)
Deadlines:#
- 1 July 2025: Submission of request for travel funding
- 15 July 2025: Travel funding notification
- 1 August 2025: Submission of abstracts for presentations
- 15 August 2025: Notification of acceptance
- 1 September 2025: Final program available
- 15 September 2025: Registration deadline
- 1-3 October 2025: Event
Travel funding#
There is a limited amount of funding available to support travel for attendants who do not have their own budget to travel to Utrecht. If you're interested in applying for this funding, please tick the box on the registration form, and we will be in contact to discuss your needs. Preference will be given to early career researchers and people from low- and middle-income countries.
Background of the event#
Michael Lange committed b2ae2fd on 29 September 2015, and we’ve come a long way since then (we didn’t even have an acronym at that point!).
More than 200 articles have been published using Parcels, on topics ranging from winds on Jupiter (the planet) and iceberg melt to AUV steering and tuna (the fish) behaviour.
