Plenary 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:

Adaptive Membrane Structures
Organizers: M. Sieder (TU Munich, Germany), A. Bögle (HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Advanced Methods for Analysis of Tensile Structures
Organizers: F. Dieringer, R.Wüchner, K.-U. Bletzinger (TU Munich, Germany)

Active Bending – Stiffening of Membrane Structures by Elastically Deformed Elements
Organizers: J. Knippers (Knippers Helbig GmbH Stuttgart, Germany), C. Gengnagel (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)

Building Physics of Membrane Structures
Organizers: M. Sieder (TU Munich, Germany), A. Kaufmann (Fraunhofer Institute of Building Physics, Germany)

Detailing - Case Studies - Installation Process
Organizer: I. Llorens (UPC, School of Architecture, Spain)

Engineering and Development of Membrane Structures for Space Applications
Organizers: L. Datashvili (TU Munich, Germany), S. Pellegrino, (Caltech, USA)

ETFE-Foils
Organizers: K. Moritz (University of Appplied Sciences, FH Anhalt, Dessau, Germany) and L. Schiemann (University of Applied Science, Berlin, Germany)

Fluid-Structure Interaction and Wind Engineering
Organizers: R. Wüchner, K.-U. Bletzinger (TU Munich, Germany)

Membranes in Environment
Organizer: R. Wagner (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany)

Membrane Materials - Manufacture, Testing & Modelling
Organizers: B. Bridgens (Newcastle University, UK), E.Barbero (West Virginia University, USA)

Rapid Deployable Tensile Structures
Organizer: A. Pronk (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)