In addition to the contributed papers an important part of the Conference will be Invited Plenary Lecturers. We will invite internationally recognised researchers who can deliver interesting lectures focusing on perspective and insight associated with a particular theme. We are aiming at having at least 9 speakers of this category at the Conference.

We are proud to announce the preliminary list of confirmed Invited Plenary Lecturers and the theme of their talk:

Charbel Farhat
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Theme to be announced later

Marc G. D. Geers
Eindhoven University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Multiscale Computational Analysis of Substructured Shells through Homogenization

Finn G. Nielsen
StatoilHydro, Bergen, Norway
Offshore renewable energy. New challenges in marine engineering.

Thomas J. R. Hughes
The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Isogeometric Analysis

Mats G. Larson
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Adaptive Methods

Sveinung Løset
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Arctic Challenges

Eugenio Oñate
CIMNE/UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Fluid-Structure Interaction Including Free Surfaces Using The Particle Finite
Element Method (PFEM)

Tayfun Tezduyar
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Coupling Algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interaction