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.

The list of confirmed Invited Sessions follows:

Applications of Particle-based Methods in Geo-mechanical and Mining Problems
Geir Horrigmoe and Kent Tano
hrrgm@online.no ; kent.tano@lkab.com

Discrete Modelling in Cell and Tissue Mechanobiology
José Manuel García Aznar and Roger Kamm
jmgaraz@unizar.es ; rdkamm@MIT.EDU



Discrete Modelling of Failure in Geomaterials
Gaël Combe and Ali Daouadji
gael.combe@ujf-grenoble.fr  ; ali.daouadji@univ-metz.fr

Fragmentation  of Solids using DEM
Ekkehard Ramm, Manfred Bischoff and Gianluca Cusatis
ramm@ibb.uni-stuttgart.de ; bischoff@ibb.uni-stuttgart.de ; cusatg@rpi.edu

Particle Methods for Micro/Nano Flow-Problems
Marco Ellero, Xiangyu Hu and Nikolaus A. Adams
marco.ellero@aer.mw.tum.de  ; xiangyu.hu@tum.de  ; Nikolaus.Adams@tum.de

Use of Particle Based Methods in Naval Hydrodynamics
Leigh McCue-Weil
mccue@vt.edu