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, Seiya Hagihara and M. Shirazaki

Complex Particle Suspensions
Christopher Leonardi, Yuntian Feng and Bruce D. Jones

Discrete Modelling in Cell and Tissue Mechanobiology
Jose Manuel García-Aznar, Herman Ramon and Paul Van Liedekerke

Fracture and Fragmentation with DEM
Ferenc Kun and Falk Wittel

Granular Plasticity
François Nicot and Felix Darve

Industrial and Manufacturing Applications
Pablo Agustín Becker, Josep Mª Carbonell and Alessandro Franci

Material Point Method – Recent Advances
Zhen Chen and Xiong Zhang

Micro-macro: From Discrete Particles to Continuum Models of Granular Mechanics
Stefan Luding, Vanessa Magnanimo, Ken Kamrin, Farhang Radjai, Thomas Weinhart, and Deepak Tunuguntla

Modelling of Degradation and Damage of Granular Materials
Geir Horrigmoe and Kent Tano

Models and Tools for Particulate Flows undergoing Phase Change or Reactions
Stefan Radl, Christoph Kloss, Christoph Goniva and Shahriar Amini

Multiscale Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Particle Systems (T-MAPPP Symposium)
Jin Ooi, Stefanos Papanicolopulos and Antonia Larese

Parallel High Performance Simulation within the Framework of Particle-Based Methods 
Peter Wriggers, Eugenio Oñate, Bircan Avci and Pooyan Dadvand

Particle-based Methods for Fluids and Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems
Sergio Idelsohn and Eugenio Oñate

Segregation in Granular Systems
Anthony Thornton, Thomas Weinhart and Deepak Tunuguntla 

XDEM - A Software Platform for Advanced Multi-Physics Simulation Technology
Bernhard Peters, Henrik Rusche and Hrvoje Jasak