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.

Persons willing to organize an Invited Session on a specific topic are kindly requested to send their proposal to the conference secretariat.

The preliminary list of confirmed Invited Sessions follows:

Application of FSI in marine propulsion and energy converters 
Alexander Düster and Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud 
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany

Application of scale-resolving turbulence modelling techniques to ship hydrodynamics
Mattias Liefvendahl
FOI Swden 
Daniel Norrison
DST-Group, Australia

Biomimetics in marine technology
Carlos Jahn
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Johannes Oeffner 
Fraunhofer CML, Germany

Cavitation and cavitation-induced erosion
Bettar Ould el Moctar
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Computational Environmental Mechanics for the Blue Growth
Emilio Campana and Elena Ciappi
CNR-INSEAN, Italy

Flow  problems and control, optimisation, and uncertainty 
Hermann G. Matthies 
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Roger Ohayon
Lmssc, France

Lightweight Composite Materials in Shipbuilding
Julio García
CIMNE Marine/UPC, Spain
Alfonso Jurado
Técnicas y Servicios de Ingeniería SL, Spain

Multi-fidelity analysis and optimization methods in marine engineering
Matteo Diez 
CNR-INSEAN , Italy
Dr. Thomas Fu
USA

Near  Wall Turbulence and its impact on Ship Hydrodynamics 
Christer  Fureby
FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency
Rickard  Bensow
Chalmers University, Sweden

Numerical modelling for engineering applications in the field of energy in marine environment
Vincenzo Nava
Tecnalia, Spain
Miquel Aguirre Font 
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France

Numerical modeling of flexible structures in offshore environment
Igor Tsukrov and Andrew Drach 
University of New Hampshire /University of Texas  at Austin, USA

Numerical modeling of wave energy converters
Claes Eskilsson and Jens Peter Kofoed
Aalborg University, Denmark

Optimization in marine engineering
Charles Hirsch
NUMECA, Belgium

Optimisation & uncertainty quantification in practical hydrodynamic ship design
Thomas Scholcz and Christian Veldhuis 
Marin, The Netherlands

Physics and simulation of hydrofoils
Patrick Queutey and Jeroen Wackers
École Centrale de Nantes, (ECN), France

Ships in Ice
Eugenio Oñate
CIMNE/UPC, Spain
Thomas Rung
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Water Impact and Water Entry Problems
Alessandro Iafrati
CNR-INSEAN , Italy
Thomas Rung
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany