The 2025 MDAnalysis User Group Meeting (UGM) will bring together users and developers of the MDAnalysis package from different communities. Our goal is to foster an interdisciplinary opportunity to connect for researchers and developers across biomolecular simulations, soft matter, biophysics and more. This repository includes relevant materials for the UGM.
Center for Biological Physics at Arizona State University, 550 E Tyler Mall, PSF 186, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Paid parking is available in the Tyler Street Parking Structure and other on-campus parking structures.
If you need to contact the organizers send a message to the UGM2025 #contact-organizers discord channel. Someone will then get in touch with you and help you solve the issue. For example, message if you cannot get into a building, if you're lost on ASU campus, or you have another urgent problem.
You need to sign up for the MDAnalysis discord server. Use the invite link https://discord.gg/fXTSfDJyxE .
See TRAVEL for detailed instructions for how to get to the conference venue (Physical Sciences Building F, Google Maps coordinates 33.4214777,-111.9311025, plus-code: C3C9+CF Tempe, Arizona) or use the overview map below (PDF).
All members of the MDAnalysis community and participants in this UGM are expected to abide by the MDAnalysis Code of Conduct (CoC). If at any point you see or experience something that makes you uncomfortable, you may fill out the reporting form or speak with any of the CoC points of contact for the UGM (Jenna Swarthout Goddard (online) and Yuxuan Zhuang (in-person)); the CoC points of contact will identify themselves at the start of the event.
| Day | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | PSF 186 | Keynote (morning), Talks (morning) & streaming workshop (afternoon) |
| Day 2 | PSH 350 | Keynote (morning), Talks (morning, afternoon) & MDAnalysis master classes (afternoon) |
| Day 3 | PSF 186 | Visualization workshop (morning), Talks (midday), OpenFF / OpenFE / OpenADMET workshops (afternoon) |
See the Full Schedule for details.
We are committed to providing a safe, comfortable, and healthy environment for the MDAnalysis UGM and have looked to local and international entities and other organizations in the open source community to develop onsite safety measures for UGM attendees.
- The asu guest wireless network is available to all participants but limited in capabilities.
- The eduroam network is available to anyone whose institution participates in eduroam. If you need to set up anything, talk to your institution's IT support before coming to ASU.
- The asu network is only available to members of Arizona State University.
See CONNECTIVITY for details.
In order to participate in some of the workshops you will need to be able to run a Code Space instance in your personal GitHub account. This requires a GitHub account and either free or paid credits. For most users, the monthly free Codespaces allowance on their individual accounts (120 core hours, 15 GB storage) should be sufficient.
Written materials are provided under the CC-BY-4.0 SA license.
The MDAnalysis UGM 2025 conference logo was created by Fiona Naughton (@fiona-naughton). The MDAnalysis logo and the MDAnalysis UGM 2025 conference logo may not be used without written permission by the MDAnalysis Project. NumFOCUS as the fiscal sponsor of MDAnalysis holds all rights on the MDAnalysis logos and any future derivatives. See the file https://github.com/MDAnalysis/branding/blob/main/logos/LICENSE for more details.
Any other logos are properties of their owners and may only be used according to their owners' terms.
The MDAnalysis UGM has been made possible in part by:
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grants; 2022-253062 and DAF2021-237663 (grant DOI https://doi.org/10.37921/426590wiobus), from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (funder DOI 10.13039/100014989)
U.S. National Science Foundation award 2311372 Elements: Streaming Molecular Dynamics Simulation Trajectories for Direct Analysis: Applications to Sub-Picosecond Dynamics in Microsecond Simulations
The Center for Biological Physics at Arizona State University provided the venue and logistical support.
MDAnalysis also thanks NumFOCUS for its continued support as our fiscal sponsor.
