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.

A preliminary list of the Invited Sessions planned follows.

Advanced Computational Methods in Material Forming
Francisco Chinesta, Elias Cueto and Renato Natal
francisco.chinesta@paris.ensam.fr ; ecueto@unizar.es ; rnatal@fe.up.pt

Analysis, Optimization and Process Design of Sheet Metal Forming Parts
Jean-Louis Batoz and Hakim Naceur
jean-louis.batoz@utc.fr ; hakim.naceur@utc.fr

Applications of Numerical Methods to Designs for Industries
Masayoshi  Akiyama and Takashi Iizuka 
akiyama@mech.kit.ac.jp

Computational Interface and Contact Mechanics
Tod Laursen 
laursen@duke.edu

Computational Methods in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Gerhard  Holzapfel 
gh@hallf.kth.se

Computational Modelling of Material Forming Processes and Impact Problems
Carlos  Agelet de Saracibar and Jean-Philippe Ponthot
agelet@cimne.upc.edu ; JP.Ponthot@ulg.ac.be

Computational Strategies for Metal Cutting & Forming Operations
Miguel Vaz
M.Vaz@Joinville.udesc.br

Constitutive Modelling and Simulation of Superelastic/Shape Memory Materials
Edoardo Artioli and Robert Taylor
artioli@ing.uniroma2.it ; rlt@ce.berkeley.edu

Constitutive Modelling in Soil Mechanics
Manuel Pastor, Felix Darve and Roberto Nova 
Manuel.Pastor@cedex.es

Continuum and Discontinuum Modelling of Failure of Concrete
Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Antonio Huerta and Frédéric Dufour
Gilles.Pijaudier-Cabot@ec-nantes.fr ; antonio.huerta@upc.edu ; frederic.dufour@ec-nantes.fr
 
Multiscale Approaches to Heterogeneous Materials
Hermann Matthies and Adnan Ibrahimbegovic
h.matthies@tu-bs.de ; ai@lmt.ens-cachan.fr

Multiscale Computational Strategies for Damage 
Propagation and Evolving Discontinuities
Olivier Allix, Ekkehard Ramm , Peter Wriggers
allix@lmt.ens-cachan.fr ; ramm@ibb.uni-stuttgart.de ; wriggers@ibnm.uni-hannover.de

Multiscale Modeling for Microstructure Design of Materials
Tomohiro Takaki 
takaki@kit.ac.jp

Numerical Modelling of Concrete Structures
Pavao Marovic
pavao.marovic@gradst.hr

Prediction of Failure, Damage and Formability
José César de Sá and Khemais Saanouni
cesarsa@fe.up.pt ; saanouni@utt.fr