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:

Advanced Particle Methods for Continuum Mechanics
Seiichi Koshizuka, S. Hagihara and M. Shirazaki

Applications of the Particle Finite Element Method in multi-physics problems
Sergio Idelsohn and Eugenio Oñate

Discrete Modeling in Cell and Tissue Mechanobiology
José Manuel García-Aznar, Herman Ramon, Paul van Liederkeke and Roger Kamm

Fracture and Fragmentation with DEM
Falk Wittel and Ferenc Kun

From Discrete Particles to Continuum Models of Granular Mechanics:
Part I. Elasticity and Wave Propagation
Co-organizers: Ken Kamrin and Vanessa Magnanimo
Part II. Quasi-static Elastoplastic Flows
Co-organizers: Stefan Luding and Farhang Radjai
Part III. Rapid Granular Flows
Co-organizers: Joe Goddard and Thomas Weinhart
Granular Plasticity
François Nicot and Felix Darve

High Performance Computing for Particle Methods: New Trends, Algorithms and Applications
Peter Wriggers, Eugenio Oñate, Bircan Avci and Pooyan Dadvand

Multiscale analysis of multiphase particulate systems (T-MAPPP Symposium)
Jin Ooi, Antonia Larese and Martin Crapper

Multi-Scale Modelling of Reactive Particle-Based Processes
Christoph Kloss, Stefan Radl, Christoph Goniva, Thomas Hagelien and Shahriar Amini

MuMoLaDe (Multiscale Modelling of Landslides and Debris Flows)
Sergio Idelsohn, Eugenio Oñate and Pablo Becker

Non-smooth Mechanics and Granular Materials. Honoring the Memory of 
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Farhang Radjai and Joe Goddard

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

Segregation in Granular Systems
Anthony Thornton and Thomas Weinhart

Simulation of Granular Materials
Geir Horrigmoe and Kent Tano

The Material Point Method and Other Meshfree and Particle Methods
J.S. Chen, Zhen Chen, Daniel Simkins, Xiong Zhang