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.

Coupling of Discret and Finite Element Methods
Peter Wriggers
wriggers@ikm.uni-hannover.de

Defects in Solids: Modelling Defects in Materials at Nanoscale
Anna Serra
a.serra@upc.edu

Fragmentation of Solids with DEM
Ekkehard Ramm and Hans Jürgen Herrmann
ramm@ibb.uni-stuttgart.de ; hans@ifb.baug.ethz.ch

Micromechanics of Granular Media Enlightened by Discrete Element Modelling
Felix Darve and François Nicot
Felix.Darve@inpg.fr ; francois.nicot@cemagref.fr