Keynote Lectures will be delivered by colleagues of international prestige in the field of the conference.

Confirmed Keynote Lecturers:

Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University, USA

R. I. Borja, Stanford University, USA

Jiun-Shyan Chen, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Jean-Loup Chenot, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

René de Borst, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Eduardo Dvorkin, Centro de Investigación Industrial (CINI), Techint, Argentina

Pierre Ladevèze, LMT Cachan, France

Wing-Kam Liu, Northwestern University, USA

Herbert Mang, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Christian Miehe, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Nicolas Moës, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

Eiji Nakamachi, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan

Xavier Oliver, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain

Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology, USA

Djordje Peric, University of Wales Swansea, UK

Ekkehard Ramm, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Bernhard Schrefler, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Erwin Stein, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

R. L. Taylor, University of Berkeley, USA

Peter Wriggers, University of Hannover, Germany