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. 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:

Coastal Ocean Modelling
IS Organized by:
Prof. Aires dos Santos, DEM, IST, Portugal
(aires.santos@ist.utl.pt)
Prof. Juha Videman, CEMAT/Department of Mathematics, IST, Portugal (videman@math.ist.utl.pt)

Fluid-Structure Interaction
IS Organized by:
Prof. Yuri Bazilevs, University of California, San Diego, USA
(bazily@ices.utexas.edu)
Prof. Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Rice University, USA
(tezduyar@gmail.com)

Isogeometric Methods for Marine Engineering
IS Organized by:
Prof.Trond Kvamsdal, SINTEF, Norway
(Trond.Kvamsdal@sintef.no)
Prof. Kjell Mathisen, NTNU, Norway
(kjell.mathisen@ntnu.no)

Maneuvering and Seakeeping
IS Organized by:
Dr.Serge Toxopeus, Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Netherlands
(S.L.Toxopeus@marin.nl)
Prof. Andres Cura Hochbaum, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
(cura@tu-berlin.de)
Prof.Rainal Lohner, George Mason University,USA
(rlohner@gmu.edu)
Prof. Chi Yang, George Mason Univeristy, USA
(cyang@gmu.edu)

Marine/Offshore Renewable Energy
IS Organized by:
Prof.Trond Kvamsdal, SINTEF, Norway
(Trond.Kvamsdal@sintef.no)
Prof. Julio Garcia, UPC/CIMNE, Spain
(julio@cimne.upc.edu)
Prof. Borja Camas, CIMNE,Spain
(bservan@cimne.upc.edu)
Prof. António Sarmento, DEM,IST, Portugal
(antonio.sarmento@ist.utl.pt)

CFD for Offshore Applications
IS Organized by:
Dr. Guilherme Vaz, Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Netherlands
(G.Vaz@marin.nl)
Dr. Fahd Fathi, SBM Offshore, Netherlands
(Fahd.Fathi@sbmoffshore.com)

Propulsion and Cavitation
IS Organized by:
Dr.Francesco Salvatore, INSEAN, Italy
(f.salvatore@insean.it)
Prof. José Alberto Falcão de Campos, DEM, IST, Portugal
(fcampos@hidro1.ist.utl.pt)

Ship Hydrodynamics
IS Organized by:
Dr.Michel Visonneau, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
(michel.visonneau@ec-nantes.fr)
Dr.Martin Hoekstra, Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Netherlands
(M.Hoekstra@marin.nl)