Keynote Lectures

Keynote Lecture invitations were made by the conference organizers or by the organizers of respective Minisymposia (MS).

The organizers of MS who are giving a Keynote Lecture were invited by the conference organizers to do so.


Vincent Acary: Numerical time integration schemes for nonsmooth multibody systems in the event-driven framework
INRIA, Chile

Carlos Agelet de Saracibar: A Direct Elimination Algorithm (DEA) for full stick and frictionless, quasi-static and dynamic contact problems
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

David Amsallem: PDE-constrained optimization using hyper-reduced-order models
Stanford University, USA

Diana V. Bambill: Free vibrations of Timoshenko micro beams using the modified couple stress theory
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Helene Barucq: Performance assessments of absorbing conditions for the reverse time migration
Inria, France

Victor M. Calo: High-performance phase-field modeling
KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Oana Cazacu: New features of the dilatational response of porous polycrystals with insensitive matrix displaying tension-compression 
University of Florida, USA

Francisco Chinesta: MOR-based computational inelasticity
Ecole Centrale Nantes, France

Maicon R. Correa: An iterative algorithm for three-phase flow in porous media
UNICAMP, Brazil

Alberto Cuitiño: Computational strategies for predicting granular matter response under extreme compaction
Rutgers University, USA

Carlos Garcia Garino: A Hybrid Total-Updated Lagrangean Formulation for large strain problems
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina

Norbert Gebbeken: Protective Structures - A challenge to computational engineering and testing
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

Luis Godoy: A penalty approach to obtain lower bound buckling loads of imperfection-sensitive shells
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

Hong Hao: Finite element analysis of structural insulated panel with OSB skins against windborne debris impacts
Curtin University, Australia

Jose Herskovits: A feasible direction algorithm for structural optimization with semidefinite constraints
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hector Jensen: The use of model reduction techniques for Bayesian finite element model updating
Santa Maria University, Chile

Chris Kees: Verification and validation of numerical models for air/water flow on coastal and navigation fluid-structure interaction applications
US Army ERDC, USA

Seiichi Koshizuka: Industrial application of Moving Particle Simulation method
The University of Tokyo, Japan

Reuben Kraft: Computational modeling of axonal injury using the embedded element approach
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Adrián J. Lew: Universal Meshes: High-order simulation of problems with evolving geometries
Stanford University, USA

Christian Linder: Phase field modeling of diffusion and fracture of silicon electrodes in lithium-ion batteries
Stanford University, USA

Erdogan Madenci: A peridynamic truss element for viscoelastic deformation
University of Arizona, USA

Norberto Mangiavacchi: Implementation strategies and applications of Finite Element Methods based on the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation to Environmental Flows
State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Osvaldo Luis Manzoli: A concurrent multiscale approach for modeling concrete and fiber reinforced concrete
São Paulo State University, Brazil

Hermann G. Matthies: To be or not to be intrusive?
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Euclides Mesquita: Vibrations of deeply embedded elastic plates
UNICAMP, Brazil

Ralf Metzler: Ergodicity violation and ageing: from granular gases to living cells
University of Potsdam, Germany

Fabio Milner: A two-strain spatio-temporal mathematical model of tumor growth
Arizona State University, USA

Hervé Moulinec: Comparison of different FFT-based methods for computing the mechanical response of  heteregoneous materials
CNRS, France

Dorival Pedroso: On the solution of coupled porous media mechanics with hysteretic liquid retention behaviour
The University of Queensland, Australia

Jean-Philippe Ponthot: Multiscale modeling of the micro-plasto-hydrodynamic lubrication, a fundamental mechanism for friction in metal forming
University of Liege, Belgium

Marta B. Rosales: Dynamic behavior of timber beams with uncertain properties
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Sandra Rugonyi: Characterizing embryonic cardiac hemodynamic conditions and their effect on heart formation
Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Pablo Seleson: A blending approach to concurrently couple peridynamics and classical continuum mechanics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Ruben D. Spies: Existence and stability of minimizers of mixed anisotropic BV-L2 Tikhonov-Phillips functionals: applications to image restoration
IMAL-CONICET, Argentina

Domingo Tarzia: Neumann solutions to fractional Lamé-Clapeyron-Stefan roblems with heat flux or convective boundary conditions
CONICET and Univ. Austral, Argentina

Kenjiro Terada: Two-scale analysis of composite plates with in-plane periodic heterogeneities
Tohoku University, Japan

Rita Toscano: Computational Modelling: a tool to add economic value to the industrial production
SIM&TEC, Argentina

Marcos Valdebenito: Application of Line Sampling for Reliability Sensitivity Estimation
Santa Maria University, Chile

Mariano Vázquez: Parallel monolithic implicit solver for compressible flows
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Vaughan R. Voller: Solutions of geomorphic Stefan problems
University of Minnesota, USA

Xiaohua Wu: Bypass transition in the narrow sense revisited using very-large-scale direct numerical simulation
Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

Eduardo N. Zapico: Mathematical models for the attitude determination and control system of micro and nano satellites
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina