Plenary lectures will be complemented by invited sessions organized by recognised experts in targeted research areas. Contributions to these sessions are by invitation of the organizers.

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:

Computational Methods for Fluid-Structure-Interaction
IS Organized by:
Prof. Bettar el Moctar, Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg, Germany

Computational Methods in Offshore Wind Energy
IS Organized by:
Prof. Peter Schaumann and Prof. Raimund Rolfes, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

Design of Offshore Wind Structures - How to Drive Costs Down?
IS Organized by:
Prof. Dr. Eckard Ritterbach, RWE Innogy and Dr. Stefan Woltering, HOCHTIEF Solutions, Germany

Fluid-dynamic Optimization of Ships and Components
IS Organized by:
Dr. Stefan Harries, FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS GmbH, Potsdam, Germany

Green Energy Production from the Oceans
IS Organized by:
Dr. Francesco Salvatore, INSEAN, Italy

Isogeometric Methods for Marine Engineering
IS Organized by:
Prof. Trond Kvamsdal, SINTEF, Norway
Prof. Kjell Mathisen, NTNU, Norway

Numerical Modeling and Characterization of Nets for Marine Applications
IS Organized by:
Prof. Igor Tsukrov, University of New Hampshire, USA

Numerical Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction: Recent Developments and Applications
IS Organized by:
Prof. Alexander Düster, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany

Offshore Renewable Energy
IS Organized by:
Prof. Julio Garcia-Espinosa, UPC/CIMNE, Spain

Seaport Terminal Optimisation
IS Organized by:
Prof. Dr. Carlos Jahn, Institute of Maritime Logistics, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany