The submission of new proposals for the organization of Minisymposia is now closed. Accepted Minisymposia are listed below.

The talks scheduled are invited by the organizers. Authors interested in contributing to any of the Minisymposia listed below, should tick the corresponding box when uploading the abstract. Abstracts must be submitted electronically via the conference website by December 31st., 2007.

List of Accepted Minisymposia

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A Background to Several Computational Difficulties: The Non-Smooth Evolution of Mechanical Systems due to Discontinuities of the Velocities in Time or in Space [ID:143]
Eric Dimnet, Frederico Tochetti
Accomplishments and Challenges in Verification & Validation [ID:30]
Luís Eça, Len Schwer, Martin Hoekstra, Bill Oberkampf
Accuracy Assessment of the eXtended Finite Element Method: Adaptivity, Comparison with Competing Methods, Industrialisation [ID:141]
Stephane Bordas, Marc Duflot, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard
Adaptive Higher Order Variational Methods for Aerospace Applications [ID:57]
Norbert Kroll, Jaap van der Vegt, Remi Abgrall
Adaptive Methods for Material Processing [ID:122]
Thierry Coupez, Jean-François Hetu, José César de Sa
Adaptive Modeling in Computational Mechanics [ID:236]
J. Tinsley Oden, Serge Prudhomme
Advanced Computational Descriptions of Macromolecular Materials: from the Atom to the Flow [ID:26]
Francisco Chinesta, Elias Cueto, Martin Kroger, Tim Phillips
Advanced Computational Methods for Wave Motion [ID:36]
Dan Givoli, Geza Seriani
Advanced Materials: Computational Analysis of Properties and Performance [ID:209]
Vadim Silberschmidt, Valery Matveenko
Advanced Numerical Approaches for Complex Multi-phase Flows [ID:140]
Takashi Yabe, Nobuatsu Tanaka, Feng Xiao
Advancement in Numerical and Physical Modeling of Free-Surface Flows [ID:44]
Lian Shen, Feng Xiao
Advances in Boundary Element Methods [ID:43]
Yijun Liu, Martin Schanz, Naoshi Nishimura, Zhenhan Yao, Marc Bonnet, Ernie Pan, Attilio Frangi, Mitch Denda
Advances in CFD Simulation of In-Flight Icing [ID:212]
Wagdi Habashi, Mark Potapczuk
Advances in Computational Mechanics in Honor of Professor Maier [ID:155]
Eugenio Onate, Claudia Comi, Giorgio Novati
Advances in Computational Modeling for Environmental Engineering [ID:198]
Agustí Pérez-Foguet, Rafael Montenegro
Advances in Computational Stochastic Mechanics [ID:125]
Vissarion Papadopoulos, Dimos Charmpis, Manolis Papadrakakis
Advances in Multiphysics Simulation and Experimental Testing of MEMS and NEMS [ID:151]
Attilio Frangi, Narayan Aluru, Subrata Mukherjee
Advances in Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods: From Quantum to Continuum [ID:265]
Dong Qian, Wing Kam Liu, Jacob Fish
Advances in Particle Methods - Minisymposium Sponsored by the Zienkiewicz Foundation [ID:238]
Roger Owen, Sergio Idelsohn
Advances in Time-Integration [ID:84]
Adrian Lew, Eric Darve, Isaac Harari
Application of Computational Mechanics to Geoscience Problems: Computational Geosciences [ID:178]
Chongbin Zhao, A. Murakami, K. T. Chau
Biofluids and Coupled Problems in Biomechanics [ID:80]
Wolfgang Wall, Marek Behr, Matteo Pasquali, Alberto Figueroa
Biological Cells and Capsules [ID:194]
Takuji Ishikawa , Dominique Barthes-Biesel , Petia Vlahovska , Takami Yamaguchi
Challenges in Mechanics for Nuclear Plants [ID:123]
Pierre Verpeaux, Stéphane Andrieux
Composite Materials and Multiscale Modeling and Design in Medicine and Enginering [ID:193]
Michel C. Delfour, Marc Thiriet
Computational Bioimaging and Visualization [ID:16]
João Tavares, Renato Natal Jorge, Thomas J. R. Hughes, Chandrajit Bajaj
Computational Contact Mechanics [ID:168]
Peter Wriggers, Tod A. Laursen, Giorgio Zavarise
Computational Electro-Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics (EMHD) [ID:42]
Gunter Gerbeth, George S. Dulikravich, Koulis Pericleous
Computational Fracture Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials and Structures [ID:109]
Noriyuki Miyazaki, Toru Ikeda
Computational Fusion Technology [ID:121]
Ettore Salpietro, Daniela P. Boso
Computational Geomechanics Minisymposium [ID:29]
Boris Jeremic, Claudio Tamagnini, Richard Regueiro, Ronaldo Borja, Fusao Oka, Stein Sture
Computational Mechanics of Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials and Stuctures [ID:202]
Christian Hellmich, Dinesh Katti
Computational Methods for Generalized Continua [ID:28]
Richard Regueiro, Krishna Garikipati, Carlo Sansour, Paul Steinmann, Harm Askes, Jerzy Pamin
Computational Methods in Composite Materials and Structures [ID:119]
Anastasia Muliana, Rami Haj-Ali, Marcin Kaminski
Computational Methods in Impact Engineering [ID:17]
Ashkan Vaziri, Zhenyu Xue, Dirk Mohr, Horacio Espinosa
Computational Methods in Multibody Dynamics Simulation [ID:19]
Dan Negrut, Carlo Bottasso, Rudranarayan M. Mukherjee
Computational Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics [ID:38]
Stefano Lenci, Marian Wiercigroch
Computational Methods in Virtual and Computer Planned Surgery [ID:127]
Suvranu De, Anna Pandolfi
Computational Modeling in Cardiovascular Mechanics [ID:99]
Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Jay D. Humphrey, Charles A. Taylor, David A. Vorp
Computational Modelling in Bone Mechanobiology [ID:180]
Jose Manuel Garcia-Aznar, Danny Kelly, Manuel Doblare, Patrick Prendergast
Computational Modelling of Locomotor Systems [ID:208]
Markus Böl, Stefanie Reese, Bob Svendsen
Computational Procedures and Models for Quasi-brittle Materials [ID:114]
Anthony Jefferson, Günter Hofstetter
Computations of Fluid Flows at the Solid-Fluid Interfaces [ID:203]
Dimitrios Papavassiliou, Lloyd Lee
Concrete Subject to High Temperature and Fire [ID:100]
Carmelo Majorana, Gabriel Khoury
Constitutive Stability and Fracture: Models and Applications [ID:64]
Pedro Areias, José César de Sá
Contact Mechanics : Modelling, Analysis and Applications [ID:39]
Mircea Sofonea, José R. Fernandez, Georgios E. Stavroulakis
Continuum Models for Composite And Nano-Materials, Mems/Nems Devices [ID:78]
Toshiro Matsumoto, Vladimir Kompis
Coupled Multifield Problems and Smart Structures [ID:86]
Thomas Wallmersperger, Bernd Kröplin, Erasmo Carrera
Damage and Interfacial Delamination Modelling in Composite Materials [ID:103]
Domenico Bruno, Frédéric Lebon , Elio Sacco
Delamination Including Internal Contact. [ID:97]
Mieczyslaw Kuczma, Bernd Zastrau
Development of a Computational Testbed for Studying Near-Surface Phenomena [ID:171]
Owen Eslinger
Dynamics of Nonlinear Structures with Contact Interfaces [ID:142]
Evgeny Petrov, Kai Willner
Efficient Computational Methods for Coupled Problems [ID:96]
Harald van Brummelen, Tayfun Tezduyar
Extended / Generalized Finite Element Method [ID:37]
Ted Belytschko, Elisa Budyn, John Dolbow, Nicolas Moës, Giulio Ventura
Finite Element Technology and Meshfree approaches: innovative formulation applied to metal forming [ID:25]
Renato Natal Jorge, Robertt Valente, Stefanie Reese, Elías Cueto
Fluid Dynamics of Compressible Flows of Substances Governed by Complex Thermodynamic Models [ID:49]
Piero Colonna, Stefano Rebay, Alberto Guardone, John Harinck
High-performance Computing in Computational Mechanics [ID:199]
Shahrouz Aliabadi, Omar Ghattas, Robert B. Haber, Guillaume Houzeaux, Abani Patra, Mariano Vázquez
Image-Based Computational Modelling of Materials [ID:210]
M.A. Siddiq Qidwai, Andrew B. Geltmacher
Immersed Boundary and Immersed Interface Methods [ID:175]
Pietro De Palma, Michele Napolitano, Giuseppe Pascazio, Roberto Verzicco
Innovative and Advanced Methods for Computational Dynamics [ID:104]
Carlos Felippa, Ekkehard Ramm
Innovative Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction [ID:128]
Trond Kvamsdal, Roger Ohayon, Harald van Brummelen
Intelligent Multi-tasking Computer Aided Engineering Systems [ID:67]
Pedro Marcal, Nobuki Yamagata
Inverse Problems [ID:102]
Bojan Guzina, Marc Bonnet
Inverse Problems for Parameter Identification [ID:167]
George Dulikravich, Giulio Maier, Helcio Orlande
Inverse Problems: Recent Advances in Methodology and Techniques [ID:54]
Barbara Kaltenbacher, Roland Potthast
Iterative Solvers for the Incompressible Navier Stokes Equations [ID:52]
Michele Benzi, Kees Vuik
Large Scale Eigenvalue Problems [ID:23]
Heinrich Voss, Peter Arbenz, Zhaojun Bai, Ren-Cang Li, Yvan Notay, Richard Lehoucq, Michiel Hochstenbach, Qiang Ye, Chao Yang, Andrew Knyazev
Length Scale Effects in Dynamic Failure of Materials [ID:112]
Shailendra Joshi, J.F. Molinari, K.T. Ramesh
Mathematical Analysis of Generalized Finite Element Method [ID:88]
Uday Banerjee, Mark Alexander Schweitzer
Mathematical and Practical Aspects of Advanced Computational Methods in Complex Systems [ID:159]
Mario-Cesar Suarez Arriaga, Jochen Bundschuh, Francisco Domínguez-Mota, Karsten Pruess
Mathematical Foundations of Computational Mechanics [ID:117]
Susanne C. Brenner, Carsten Carstensen
Mechanical Modeling of Wood and Wood Based Materials [ID:187]
Josef Eberhardsteiner, Michael Kaliske, Karin Hofstetter
Mechanics of Tires and Pavements: Material and Computational Modeling [ID:182]
Michael Kaliske, Markus Oeser
Meshfree and Generalized/Extended Finite Element Methods [ID:107]
J. S. Chen, Ivo Babuska, Ted Belytschko, C. Armando Duarte, Vitor Leitão, Wing Kam Liu, Hirohisa Noguchi, Angelo Simone
Meshfree Multiscale Methods Mini-Symposium [ID:89]
Michael Griebel, Antonio Huerta, Wing Kam Liu, Marc Alexander Schweitzer
Meshless and Related Methods [ID:98]
Janusz Orkisz, Sergio Idelsohn, Suvranu De
Metamodels for High Dimensionality Response Surfaces in Multiobjective Optimization [ID:45]
George Dulikravich, Marcelo Colaco
Micro-fluidic / Lab-on-a-chip Systems [ID:20]
Friedhelm Schönfeld, David Emerson
Minisymposium in Honor of Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz [ID:53]
Robert Taylor, Perumal Nithiarasu
Minisymposium in the Honor of Michel Bernadou‘s 65th Birthday [ID:73]
John Cagnol, Roland Glowinski
Minisymposium on "Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Coupled Multiphysics Systems in Nano- and Biotechnologies" [ID:116]
Roderick Melnik, Riccardo Sacco
Minisymposium on Advances in Mesh-Reduction Techniques: BEM and Meshless Methods [ID:75]
Eduardo Divo, Alain Kassab, Bozidar Sarler, Riszard Bialecki
Minisymposium on Computational Methods for Seismic Analysis and Design [ID:136]
Manolis Papadrakakis, Dimos Charmpis, Nikos Lagaros
Minisymposium on Inverse Problems in Heat Transfer [ID:74]
Alain Kassab, Richard Bialecki, Eduardo Divo
Minisymposium on PDE Constrained Optimization [ID:71]
Michael Hintermueller, Ronald H W Hoppe
Minisymposium on Performance-Based Structural Design Optimization [ID:47]
Nikos Lagaros , Christopher Foley, Hongbing Fang
Modeling Robustness and Structural Reliability Analysis [ID:63]
James Beck, Gerhart Schuëller, Hector Jensen
Modelling and Optimisation for Coupled Multi-Physics Processes [ID:59]
Francois Bay, Mark Cross
Modern Approaches for Fluid-structure Interaction Problems on Lightweight Structures [ID:120]
Roland Wüchner, Riccardo Rossi
Multiobjective Optimization in Industrial Applications [ID:176]
Jussi Hakanen, Elina Madetoja
Multi-phase and Multi-scale Modelling of Concrete and Concrete Structures [ID:118]
Pavao Marovic, Nenad Bicanic, Adnan Ibrahimbegovic
Multiphysics Modelling of Porous Media: Geomaterials, Biomaterials and Others [ID:79]
Younane N. Abousleiman, Stefan Diebels, Lorenzo Sanavia
Multiscale Damage and Failure Mechanics of Engineering Materials [ID:149]
J. Woody Ju, Lizhi Sun, Pierre Ladeveze, Olivier Allix
Multiscale Mechanics in Durability of Materials [ID:82]
Roman Lackner, Josef Eberhardsteiner
Multiscale Mechanics of Interfaces [ID:115]
Christoph Eberl, Abhijit Mukherjee, Siegfried Schmauder, Shailendra Joshi
Multiscale Methods in Computer Materials Science [ID:33]
Maciej Pietrzyk, Peter Hodgson, Tadeusz Burczynski
Multiscale Model-Based Simulation with Applications to Nano and Bio Systems [ID:169]
Zhen Chen, Er Ping Chen, H. Eliot Fang, Hongwu Zhang, Zhuo Zhuang
Multiscale Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Heterogeneous Materials [ID:150]
Manolis Papadrakakis, George Stefanou, X. Frank Xu, Nicholas Zabaras
Multiscale Modelling of Material Behaviour [ID:124]
Chris Pearce, Eduardo de Souza Neto
Multiscale Problems in the Life Sciences [ID:131]
Vincenzo Capasso, Willi Jaeger
Multiscale Simulations for Composite Materials and Mechanical Systems [ID:110]
Junzhi Cui, Xiu-Tian Yan, Geng Liu, Liyan Wu, Tianxiang Liu, Qin Xie, Qian Li
New Trends for Evolutionary Optimization Methods Applied to Multidisciplinary Problems [ID:76]
William Annicchiarico, George Dulikravich, Miguel Cerrolaza
Numerical and Computational Aspects of Interface Problems [ID:50]
Frederic Gibou, Christian Ratsch
Numerical Dynamical Systems Analysis of Nonlinear Climate Models [ID:184]
Fred Wubs, Kurt Lust, Henk Dijkstra
Numerical Methods and Technological Solutions for CSP Systems [ID:207]
Valentina Salomoni, Giannuzzi Mauro
Numerical Methods for Fluid-structure Interactions [ID:87]
Hester Bijl, Jan Vierendeels
Numerical Methods for Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow [ID:85]
Byeong Rog SHIN, Takeo Kajishima
Numerical Modeling and Simulation on Micro and Nanoscale Materials and Devices [ID:170]
Marisol Koslowski, Richard Lesar
Numerical Modeling in Reinforced Concrete and Its Validation [ID:200]
Rena C. Yu, Giulio Ventura, Gonzalo Ruiz, Jacinto R. Carmona
Numerical Modeling of Coupled Problems in Geo- and Durability Mechanics [ID:148]
Günther Meschke, Xikui Li
Numerical Modelling of High Speed or Innovative Metal Forming Processes [ID:32]
Jean-Loup Chenot, Fabricio Micari, Katia Mocellin
Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamic Geophysical Flows. Honouring Fausto Saleri [ID:62]
Tomas Chacon Rebollo, Edie Miglio
Numerical Techniques for the Modelling of Material Failure in Solids [ID:237]
Xavier Oliver, Francisco Armero
Optimization and Inverse Engineering for Industrial Applications [ID:106]
Michele Chiumenti, Valentino Pediroda
Patient Specific Computational Modelling [ID:70]
Perumal Nithiarasu, Rainald Lohner
Propagation of Electron, Elastic, and Electromagnetic Waves in Nonhomogeneous Waveguides and Nanostructures [ID:66]
Lev Baskin, Pekka Neittaanmäki, Boris Plamenevsky
RANS/LES Coupling for the Simulation of Complex Flows [ID:186]
Jochen Fröhlich, Ivan Mary
Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Problems [ID:60]
Sergey Karabasov, Vassily Goloviznin, Tatyana Kozubskaya, Yoko Takakura, Ralf Deiterding, Maria Lukacova
Recent Developments in Computational Methods for Structural Optimization [ID:69]
H Alicia Kim, Gengdong Cheng, David Kennedy, Michal Kocvara, Tae Hee Lee, Kurt Maute, Mathias Stolpe
Role of Heterogeneities and Uncertainties in Inelastic Response of Materials [ID:111]
Adnan Imbrahimbegovic, Hermann Matthies
Scale Bridging in Science and Engineering [ID:24]
Jacob Fish, Kenjiro Terada
Second Level Preconditioners for Krylov Subspace Methods [ID:48]
Reinhard Nabben, Kees Vuik
Simulation Technology towards the Hydrogen Use World. [ID:56]
Hiroshi Kanayama, Noriyuki Miyazaki
Soft Computing Methods [ID:94]
Tadeusz Burczynski, Jamshid Ghaboussi, Zenon Waszczyszyn
Sparse Linear System Solvers for Large-Scale Finite Element Applications [ID:158]
Alberto Bertoldo, Mauro Bianco
Special Symposium in Honour of 75th Birthday of Professor S. Valliappan [ID:185]
Nasser Khalili, Scott Sloan
Stabilized, Multiscale and Multiphysics Methods [ID:55]
Tayfun Tezduyar, Arif Masud, Thomas Hughes
Structural Stability [ID:83]
Herbert Mang, Zsolt Gaspar
Subgrid Scales, A-Posteriori Error Estimation and Adaptivity for Computational Mechanics [ID:81]
Guillermo Hauke, James R. Stewart
Theory and Applications of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods [ID:130]
Slimane Adjerid, Clint Dawson, Adrian Lew, Beatrice Riviere, Chi-Wang Shu
Thermodynamics Aspects of Metal Behavior at Extreme Loading Rates [ID:177]
Aleksander Zubelewicz, Wojciech Nowacki
Time- and Spatial Decomposition Methods for Multi-physical and Multi-field Problems [ID:139]
Jürgen Geiser, Qin Sheng
Topology Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering [ID:65]
Matthew Gilbert, Tomasz Lewinski
Transition Modelling [ID:192]
Erik Dick, Mark Savill, Witold Elsner, Franco Magagnato
Uncertainties in Computational Mechanics with Emphasis on Structural Optimization Applications [ID:35]
Dan Frangopol, Yiannis Tsompanakis
Uncertainty Modeling and Quantification in Computational Mechanics [ID:21]
Roger Ghanem, Christian Soize, Gerhart Schueller
Uncertainty Quantification Methods for CFD and FSI [ID:90]
Hester Bijl, Chris Lacor
Virtual Fracture Testing of Composite Materials and Structures [ID:154]
Javier LLorca, Brian Cox