DuckDB in Science

We are excited to announce the DuckDB London meetup, which will take place during the week of the prestigious VLDB 2025 conference. This meetup will specifically focus on DuckDB's role in Science. It will feature deep dive talks from the developers of DuckDB and lightning talks from the research community around DuckDB.

Schedule

18:30 Mingle & snacks

19:30 Gabor Szarnyas – Opening remarks
19:45 Laurens Kuiper – Hands-on: A PhD centered around DuckDB
20:05 Richard Wesley – Time flies like a duck

20:30 Lightning talks

• Torsten Grust (University of Tübingen, Germany) – Ducks love running in circles
• Abigale Kim (University of Wisconsin–Madison) – Anarchy in the database: A survey and evaluation of database management system extensibility
• Junchang (Jason) Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications) – Elevating bitmap indexing in OLAP DBMSs
• Anas Dorbani (Polytechnique Montréal) – When the duck quacks: Multimodal querying with FlockMTL

21:00 Talks end
21:30 Event ends