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.

The preliminary list of confirmed Invited Sessions follows:

Biochemical Simulations and Soft Matter
Christian Holm and Johannes Kästner

Combined Continua-Discontinua Methods with Applications
Antonio Munjiza and Earl Knight

Computational Physics of Dry and Multiphasic Granular Media
Vincent Richefeu and Gaël Combe

Discrete Modeling in Cell and Tissue Mechanobiology
José Manuel García Aznar and Roger Kamm

Instability Mechanisms, from Particles to Structures
Francois Nicot, Ali Daouadji and Felix Darve

Micro-macro Transition: From Discrete/particle Systems to Continuum Theory 
Vanessa Magnanimo, Stefan Luding and A.R. Thornton

Modelling of Granular Materials in Mining Applications
Geir Horrigmoe and Kent Tano

Multi-scale Particle Methods in Engineering Applications
Joachim Gross, Andreas Kronenburg and Robert Seifried

PARDEM Symposium: DEM Single and Multiphase Simulations for Industrial and Scientific Applications
Jin Y. Ooi, Stefan Luding and Carlos Labra

Particle Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions at Different Scales
Moubin Liu	

Particle Models of Flow Physics
Nikolaus A. Adams, Marco Ellero and Xiangyu Hu

Peridynamics - An Integral Equation Based Approach for Fracture
Georg Ganzenmüller and Stefan Hiermaier

Special Session on Multiscale Modelling of Landslide and Debris Flow (MUMOLADE)
Falk Wittel

The Material Point Method (MPM), Theory and Applications
Deborah Sulsky

The Particle Finite Element Methods in Solid and Fluid Mechanics Problems
Sergio Idelsohn