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

The talks scheduled are generally invited by the organizers but if you wish to contribute to any of the special sessions, you can contact them.

A preliminary list of the Invited Sessions planned follows:

ALE and Space-Time Methods in Fluid-Structure Interactions
Tayfun Tezduyar
tezduyar@mems.rice.edu

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

Coupled  Thermofluid-Structural Problems
Alain Kassab
kassab@mail.ucf.edu

Coupling in Biological Porous Media
Jacques M. Huyghe and Amaya Perez de Palomar
j.m.r.huyghe@tue.nl

Model Reduction Strategies: Fundamentals and Applications
F. Chinesta and D. Ryckelynck
francisco.chinesta@paris.ensam.fr ; david.ryckelynck@paris.ensam.fr

Multiphase porous media in engineering sciences and technology
Carmelo Majorana and Bernhard Schrefler
majorana@dic.unipd.it 

US research on Blast Structure Interaction
Michel Giltrud and Joseph Baum
Mike.giltrud@dtra.mil ; baumj@saic.com