Plenary lectures will be complemented by invited sessions organized by recognised experts in targeted research areas.

The talks scheduled are generally invited by the organizers. Authors interested to contribute to a particular Invited Session are kindly requested to contact the session organizer(s) directly.

Persons willing to organize an Invited Session on a specific topic are kindly requested to send their proposal to the conference secretariat.

A preliminary list of the Invited Sessions planned follows:

Advances in Damage Modelling at Large Inelastic Deformations: 
Theory and Computational Aspects
José César de Sá and Khemais Saanouni
cesarsa@fe.up.pt ; saanouni@utt.fr

Applications of Computational Methods to Product and Process Designs for Industry
Takashi Iizuka and Masayoshi Akiyama
tiizuka@kit.ac.jp ; akiyama@mech.kit.ac.jp

Computational Algorithms for Contact and Interfaces
Tod Laursen 
laursen@duke.edu

Computational Analysis of Masonry Structures
Pere Roca 
pedro.roca@upc.edu

Computational Challenges in Multiscale Inelasticity and Instability
Herbert Mang and Christian Hellmich
herbert.mang@tuwien.ac.at ; Christian.Hellmich@tuwien.ac.at

Computational Modeling of Forming Processes
Jean-Philippe Ponthot and Carlos Agelet de Saracibar
JP.Ponthot@ulg.ac.be ; agelet@cimne.upc.edu

Computational Strategies for Metal Cutting & Forming Operations
Miguel Vaz
M.Vaz@Joinville.udesc.br

Continuous - Discontinuous Approaches to Failure of Quasi-brittle Materials
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot and Frédéric Dufour
Gilles.Pijaudier-Cabot@ec-nantes.fr ; frederic.dufour@grenoble-inp.fr

Energy-based Variational Principles and Applications in Constitutive Modeling 
Jörn Mosler and Laurent Stainier 
Joern.Mosler@gkss.de  ; Laurent.Stainier@ec-nantes.fr

Inelastic Processes in Heterogeneous Materials
Hermann Matthies and Adnan Ibrahimbegovic
h.matthies@tu-bs.de ; adnan.ibrahimbegovic@ens-cachan.fr

Modeling of Damage Evolution and Propagating Discontinuities at Failure 
Ekkehard Ramm, Francisco Armero and Christian Linder
ramm@statik.uni-stuttgart.de ; armero@ce.berkeley.edu ; linder@mechbau.uni-stuttgart.de 

Multiresolution Science Based Mechanics of Complex Material
Wing-Kam Liu, Ji Hoon Kim and Lars-Erik Lindgren
w-liu@northwestern.edu ; kimjh@kims.re.kr ;  lel@ltu.se

Multiscale Modeling for Microstructure Design of Materials
Tomohiro Takaki and Kisaragi Yashiro
takaki@kit.ac.jp ; yashiro@mech.kobe-u.ac.jp 

Non-conventional Modeling and Simulation of Materials and Processes
Francisco Chinesta and Elias Cueto
francisco.chinesta@paris.ensam.fr ; ecueto@unizar.es

Novel Computational Approaches in Biomechanics at Different Length Scales
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
holzapfel@tugraz.at

Numerical Modelling of Concrete Structures
Pavao Marovic and Nenad Bicanic
pavao.marovic@gradst.hr ;  n.bicanic@civil.gla.ac.uk

Shape Memory Materials: Theory and Computation
Edoardo Artioli and Robert Taylor
artioli@ing.uniroma2.it ; rlt@ce.berkeley.edu

Stress Integration, Consistent Tangents and Solution Algorithms
Roger Crouch
r.s.crouch@durham.ac.uk