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.

The preliminary list of confirmed Invited Sessions follows:

Isogeometric Methods for Marine Engineering
Trond Kvamsdal and Kjell Magne Mathisen
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 

Deterministic and stochastic simulation-based design analysis and optimization in marine engineering
Charles Hirsch
NUMECA, Belgium 
Matteo Diez
CNR-INSEAN , Italy

Erosion and Cavitation
Bettar Ould el Moctar
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Features  of Unsteady Propeller Flows
Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud 
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany

Flow  Problems and Control, Optimisation, and Uncertainty
Hermann G. Matthies 
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Roger Ohayon
Lmssc, France

New CFD methods for marine hydrodynamics
David Le Touzé
École Centrale de Nantes, (ECN), France

Numerical modeling of flexible structures in offshore environment
Igor Tsukrov and Andrew Drach 
University of New Hampshire /University of Texas  at Austin, USA

Numerical and experimental developments for maritime  transport safety
Jean- Marc Rousset 
École Centrale de Nantes, (ECN), France

Sailing and Yacht Engineering
Lars Larsson  
Chalmers University, Sweden

Ships Hydrodynamics. Experiments and Simulations
Guilherme Vaz 
Marin, The Netherlands

Ship in Ice
Thomas Rung and Sören Ehlers 
TUHH, Germany

Transient and Unsteady Effects in Ship Hydrodynamics
Rickard Bensow and Mattias Liefvendahl 
Chalmers University/ FOI, Sweden