Due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 outbreak, the GPPS Executive Committee and the Chania20 Organizing Committee have decided to organize a purely virtual technical conference, taking place on the 7th-9th September, 2020.
 
The health and security of our community are our main concern. Even if the current travel restrictions are lifted by September 2020, we want to prevent unnecessary exposure of our delegates. We therefore regretfully abstain from holding an in-person technical conference in Greece this September.
 
The GPPS virtual technical conference will provide high-quality content, including parallel paper presentations, invited keynotes, tutorials, and dedicated sessions for open access geometries and data sets. Further, the GPPS Journal Editor Prof. Li He will hold a session informing the attendees about the recent developments regarding the GPPS journal.

Registered participants of the GPPS virtual technical conference will be the first to receive the soon-to-be-released geometries and data sets from selected engineering institutes across the globe.

In the public domain, there are very few turbomachinery geometries and accompanying validation data. To combat this shortage, the GPPS Chania20 technical conference will feature special sessions dedicated to:

a) presenting the geometries and data sets, and their release plan to researchers, and
b) enabling discussion and access to any upcoming test cases.

The strategy of GPPS is to make this data readily available to all researchers, and we invite any new research conducted with this data to be presented at future GPPS conferences.