The persons listed below, in recognition of their outstanding contributions in the field of computational mechanics, were invited to deliver a plenary or semi-plenary lecture at the WCCM VIII - ECCOMAS V world congress. Click the name for more information about the lecturer, and the title of his or her lecture to access the abstract.

Plenary Lecturers
	Ted Belytschko Northwestern University, United States Multiscale Computational Methods for Failure
	Pierre Ladevèze LMT-Cachan, Paris 6 University, France The Latin Method: A Paradigm for Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Methods
	Herbert Mang Vienna University of Technology, Austria Computational Multi-Scale Analysis in Civil Engineering
	Kazuhiro Nakahashi Tohoku University, Japan Building-Cube Method: A CFD Approach for Near-Future PetaFlops Computers
	Michael Ortiz California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States Electronic-Structure Calculations at Macroscopic Scales
	Roger Owen University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom Multi-Field Coupling Strategies for Large Scale Problems Involving Multi-Fracturing Rock and Particulate Media
	Olivier Pironneau Université Paris VI, France Numerical Challenge for Option Pricing
	Alfio Quarteroni Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mathematical Modeling for Medicine, Sports, and the Environment
	Robert Taylor University of California at Berkeley, United States My Fifty Years with Finite Elements!
	Barbara Wohlmuth University of Stuttgart, Germany Stable Hybridization Techniques in Computational Mechanics
Semi-Plenary Lecturers
	Ferdinando Auricchio Università di Pavia, Italy On the Stability of Finite Element Schemes for Finite Strain Incompressible Elasticity
	Zdenek Bazant Northwestern University, United States Computing Quasibrittle Failure Probability: from Nano to Macro
	Javier Bonet University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom Two Step Taylor-Galerkin Solution of Lagrangian Explicit Dynamic Solid Mechanics
	Gengdong Cheng Dalian University of Technology, China Multi-Scale Design Optimization
	Charbel Farhat Stanford University, United States Reduced-Order Modeling, Differential Geometry and Physics-Based Near-Real-Time Predictions
	Axel Flaig Aerodynamics, Airbus, Germany Eco-efficient by Design - Challenges for Aerodynamics Engineers for Future Aircraft Design
	Tom Hughes The University of Texas at Austin, United States Isogeometric Analysis: Progress and Challenges
	Sergio Idelsohn CIMNE, Spain Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina Fluid-Structure-Interaction Problems Including "Added-Mass Effects"
	Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai Asian Institute Of Technology, Thailand Advances in Kriging-Based Finite Element Method
	Wing Kam Liu Northwestern University, United States Multiresolution Mechanics: Linking Material Properties to Evolving Microstructure
	Rainald Löhner George Mason University, United States Combination of Body-Fitted and Embedded/Immersed Methods for Complex CFD Applications
	Nicolas Moës Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France The eXtended Finite Element Method: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead
	Ernst Rank Technical University München, Germany Computational Steering: Towards Advanced Interactive High Performance Computing in Engineering Sciences
	Scott Sloan University of Newcastle, Australia Limit Analysis with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
	Wolfgang Wall Technical University of Munich, Germany Computational modeling of the respiratory system
	Takashi Yabe Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Robust Multi-Phase Flow Solvers with Mesh-Free Adaptive Grid CIP Method