Semi-Plenary Speakers

We do not plan to have plenary lectures. 

Yuri Bazilevs 
University of California, San Diego, USA

Ted Belytschko 
Northwestern University, USA

Franco Brezzi 
Institute for Advanced Study – Pavia, Italy

René de Borst 
University of Glasgow, UK

Charbel Farhat 
Stanford University, USA

Wing Liu 
Northwestern University, USA

Rainald Löhner 
George Mason University, USA

Herbert Mang 
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Donatella Marini 
University of Pavia, Italy

Yoichiro Matsumoto 
The University of Tokyo, Japan

Tinsley Oden 
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Eugenio Oñate
International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain

Roger Owen 
Swansea University, UK

Ekkehard Ramm 
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Kenji Takizawa 
Waseda University, Japan

Robert Taylor
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Tayfun Tezduyar
Rice University, USA

Peter Wriggers
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Takashi Yabe 
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan



Keynote Speakers
Douglas Arnold
University of Minnesota, USA

Marino Arroyo
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Ferdinando Auricchio (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs. Chose not to give a keynote presentation.) 
University of Pavia, Italy

Chandrajit Bajaj
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Roberto Ballarini
University of Minnesota, USA

Nicola Bellomo
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Dave Benson  (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of California, San Diego, USA

Rebecca Brannon
University of Utah, USA

Hans-Joachim Bungartz
Technical University of Munich, Germany

J.S. Chen  (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Yen-Sen Chen
National Space Organization, Taiwan

Elaine Cohen
University of Utah, USA

Alessandro Corsini (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Leszek Demkowicz
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Huajian Gao
Brown University, USA

David Gartling (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs. Chose not to give a keynote presentation.) 
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Wagdi Habashi
McGill University, Canada

Ryutaro Himeno
RIKEN, Japan

Greg Hulbert (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of Michigan, USA

Sergio Idelsohn  (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
CIMEC - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Kenneth Jansen(Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of Colorado, USA

Ruben Juanes
MIT, USA

Kazuo Kashiyama (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Chuo University, Japan

David Kuck
Intel Corp., USA

Trond Kvamsdal
NTNU, Norway

Tod Laursen (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Khalifa University, UAE

Chao-An Lin
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Robert Lipton
Louisiana State University, USA

G.R. Liu (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of Cincinnati, USA

Arif Masud (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Robert Moser
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Alan Needleman (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of North Texas, USA

Roger Ohayon
Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), France

Manolis Papadrakakis (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Alessandro Reali
University of Pavia, Italy

Franco Rispoli (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Ahmed Sameh (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Purdue University, USA

Giancarlo Sangalli (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
University of Pavia, Italy

Michael Schäfer
TU Darmstadt, Germany

Bernhard Schrefler (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs. Chose not to give a keynote presentation.) 
University of Padua, Italy

Guglielmo Scovazzi (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Duke University, USA

John Shadid
Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Tony Wen-Hann Sheu 
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Harald van Brummelen (Invited by Conference Co-Chairs.) 
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Mary Wheeler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Takami Yamaguchi
Tohoku University, Japan