The following table contains the final list of all Symposia to be offered at the Congress.
Symposia that have Summaries and/or separate Web pages are indicated by the hyperlink.
1. Meshfree Methods
J.S. Chen jschen@icaen.uiowa.edu Antonio Huerta antonio.huerta@upc.es Mark Christon christon@lstc.com Hirohisa Noguchi noguchi@sd.keio.ac.jp Wing-Kam Liu w-liu@nwu.edu Ted Belytschko t-belytschko@nwu.edu
2. Crashworthiness and Impact Engineering (PDF)
Shen Wu swu@ford.com Cliff Chou cchou@ford.com
3. Computational Mechanics Education
N.J. Salamon njsalamon@psu.edu
4. Finite Elements for Wave Problems
Dan Givoli givolid@aerodyne.technion.ac.il Isaac Harari harari@eng.tau.ac.il
5. Advances in Software Technology for Computational Mechanics
Ottmar Klaas oklaas@scorec.rpi.edu Mark Shephard shephard@scorec.rpi.edu
6. Topics in Optimization
Richard Dippery rdippery@kettering.edu Bob Adey Gary Vanderplaats
7. Computational Nanomechanics
Antoinette Maniatty maniaa@rpi.edu Harley Johnson hjohnson@bu.edu
8. Northwestern University Symposium on
Virtual Tribology, Micro and Nano Systems
Ted Belytschko tedbelytschko@nwu.edu Horacio Espinosa espinosa@northwestern.edu Mark Horstemeyer mfhorst@sandia.gov Leon M. Keer l-keer@northwestern.edu Wing-Kam Liu w-liu@nwu.edu Q. Jane Wang qwang@northwestern.edu Michael D. Bryant mbryant@mailutexas.edu Richard Salant richard.salant@me.gatech.edu Helena Van Swygenhoven helena.vs@psi.ch
9. Material Processing
Pan Michaleris pxm32@psu.edu
10. Advances in Computational Modelling & Characterisation of Advanced Composites
Shaker A. Meguid meguid@mie.utoronto.ca
11. Geotechnical Applications
Stein Sture stein.sture@colorado.edu Boris Jeremic jeremic@ucdavis.edu
12. Dynamic and Earthquake Engineering Applications in Geotechnical Engineering
Takaaki Kagawa tkagawa@ce.eng.wayne.edu Xian Tao ad3156@wayne.edu Akio Abe abe@tokyosoil.co.jp
13. Proposed Standard for Verification & Validation
Len Schwer Len@Schwer.net Fran¨ois M. Hemez hemez@lanl.gov
14. 3rd Symposium on Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation
Mark Shephard shephard@scorec.rpi.edu Steven J. Owen sjowen@sandia.gov Sunil Saigal saigal+@cmu.edu Kenji Shimada shimada@cmu.edu
15. Advances in Boundary Element Methods
Yijun Liu Yijun.Liu@uc.edu Leonard J. Gray ljg@ornl.gov S.T. Raveendra ravi@mail.autoa.com
16. Turbulence Simulation
Ken Jansen kjansen@scorec.rpi.edu
17. Challenges and Advances in Flow Simulation and Modeling
Tayfun Tezduyar tezduyar@mems.rice.edu
18. Computational Multibody Dynamics
Jean Heegaard heegaard@stanford.edu Jorge A.C. Ambrosio jorge@dem.ist.utl.pt Hamid Lankarani lankaran@me.twsu.edu
19. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Joe Flaherty flaherje@cs.rpi.edu
20. Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Computations
Joe Flaherty flaherje@cs.rpi.edu William F. Mitchell william.mitchell@nist.gov
21. Computational Failure Mechanics
Kaspar Willam willam@bechtel.Colorado.EDU Francisco Armero armero@ce.berkeley.edu Paul Steinmann ps@rhrk.uni-kl.de
22. Multiscale Methods in Field Theories of Mechanics
Krishna Garikipati krishna@engin.umich.edu Yonggang Huang huang9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
23. Computational Mechanics of Sharp Fronts and Interfaces
John Dolbow jdolbow@duke.edu Tod Laursen laursen@duke.edu
24. Stabilized and Multiscale Finite Element Methods
Arif Masud amasud@uic.edu Leo Franca lfranca@math.cudenver.edu Tom Hughes tjr_hughes@hotmail.com
25. Image-Based and Hierarchical Modeling of Biological Tissues
Scott Hollister scottho@umich.edu
26. Methods and Applications in Coupled Engineering Simulations
Carol Hoover hoover1@llnl.gov Bob Ferencz ferencz1@llnl.gov
27. Free Surface Flow Simulation
Marek Behr behr@rice.edu
28. Computational Hemodynamics
29. Inverse Problems in Mechanics
Lorraine Olson lolson2@unl.edu
30. Computational Methods for Adaptive Structures and MEMS
Loc Vu-Quoc vu-quoc@ufl.edu Dimitris Lagoudas lagoudas@tamu.edu Narajan Aluru aluru@uiuc.edu James Boyd jboyd@aero.tamu.edu
31. High Performance Computing and Computational Structural Mechanics
Raju Namburu raju@arl.mil A.M. Rajendran raj@aro-emh1.army.mil
32. Computational Contact Mechanics
Panos Papadopoulos panos@newton.berkeley.edu
33. Vehicle Dynamics and Tire Modeling
Ric Mousseau ric.mousseau@eng.utoledo.edu
34. Design Optimization Applications in Industry
Ren-Jye Yang ryang@ford.com Mark E. Botkin mark.e.botkin@gm.com
35. Computational Fracture & Damage Mechanics
Sharif Rahman rahman@engineering.uiowa.edu Anthony R. Ingraffea ari1@cornell.edu
36. Model Order Reduction Methods in Mechanics
Petr Krysl pkrysl@ucsd.edu
37. Differential Quadrature Techniques and the Related Discrete Element Analysis Methods
Chang-New Chen cchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw
38. Conservative and Dissipative Integrators in Computational Dynamics
Peter Betsch pbetsch@rhrk.uni-kl.de Paul Steinmann ps@rhrk.uni-kl.de Thomas J.R. Hughes hughes@am-sun2.stanford.edu
39. Multiscale Finite Element Analysis
Michael Ortiz ortiz@aero.caltech.edu
40. Vortex-Structure Interaction
Jeffrey Marshall jeffrey-marshall@uiowa.edu John Grant grantjr@npt.nuwc.navy.mil Michael L. Accorsi accorsi@engr.uconn.edu
41. Modeling, Analysis and Design for Functionally Graded Materials (FGM)
Jin-Rae Cho jrcho@hyowon.pusan.ac.kr Ryuzo Watanabe pmr-wata@material.tohoku.ac.jp
42. Modern Issues in Computational Micromechanics
J. Tinsley Oden oden@brahma.ticam.utexas.edu Peter Wriggers wriggers@ibnm.uni-hannover.de Tarek Zohdi zohdi@ibnm.uni-hannover.de
43. Phase Transformation and Microstructure Evolution
Yunzhi Wang wang.363@osu.edu
44. Computational Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials: Modeling, Simulation, and Experimental Verification
Yu-Lin Shen shenyl@me.unm.edu Nik Chawla nchawla@asu.edu
45. Numerical Simulation of Plasmas
Vish Subramaniam Subramaniam.1@osu.edu
46. Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Microfluidic Applications
Neelesh A. Patankar n-patankar@northwestern.edu Junghoon Lee junghoon@northwestern.edu Steffen Hardt hardt@imm-mainz.de
47. Computational Acoustics
S.T. (Ravi) Raveendra ravi@autoa.com Robert Bernhard bernhard@ecn.purdue.edu John Cherng jgcherng@engin.umd.umich.edu
48. Quantitative Uncertainty Propagation and Management
Roger Ghanem ghanem@jhu.edu
49. Computational Stochastic Mechanics
50. Sheet Metal Forming
Jwo Pan jwo@engin.umich.edu Sheng-Dong Liu SLiu@nationalsteel.com
51. Probabilistic Mechanics
Ramana Grandhi rgrandhi@cs.wright.edu
