Manfred Bischoff
Institut für Baustatik und Baudynamik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Discrete Element Methods in Structural Mechanics 

Paul Cleary
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Large Scale Simulation of Geophysical, Biomechanical and Engineering Systems 
using Particle Methods

Felix Darve
Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
What is failure? The Answer from Discrete Modelling

Y.T. Feng
Swansea University, United Kingdom
Some Fundamental Issues in Discrete Element Modelling of Particle Systems

Sergio Idelsohn
ICREA Research Professor at CIMNE, Spain
Particle Methods and Real Time Computational Mechanics

Seiichi Koshizuka
Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Moving Particle Simulation for Free Surface and Muti-phase Flows

Peter Wriggers
Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany
On Different DEM-FEM Coupling Schemes in Engineering Applications