Dear friends and colleagues, It is a great pleasure to announce the PDE Software Frameworks (PDESoft) 2018 Conference, which will be held at the hotel Zander K (https://www.zanderk.no/en/), Bergen, Norway, May 28 - 30, 2018. The scientific committee of the conference consists of the following people: - Donna Calhoun (Boise State University) - Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory) - Guido Kanschat (Heidelberg University) - Eirik Keilegavlen (University of Bergen) - Robert Klöfkorn (International Research Institute of Stavanger) - Lawrence Mitchell (Imperial College London) - Christophe Prud'homme (University of Strasbourg) - Garth Wells (University of Cambridge) - Barbara Wohlmuth (Technical University of Munich) We welcome abstracts on topics related to software for - meshing and adaptive mesh refinement, - solvers for large systems of equations, - numerical PDE solvers, - data visualization systems, - user interfaces to scientific software, and - reproducible science. The accepted abstracts will be scheduled for either oral or poster presentations. This workshop does not publish full papers, so submission of a full paper is not required. The deadline for abstract submission is Feb. 1, 2018. For more information, please see the PDESoft18 web page: http://www.iris.no/pdesoft18/. We are looking forward to meeting you in Bergen. With best regards, Robert Klöfkorn, on behalf of the organizing committee -- Dr. Robert Kloefkorn Senior Research Scientist | http://www.iris.no International Research Institute of Stavanger (Bergen office) Thormoehlensgt. 55 | 5006 Bergen Phone: +47 482 93 024