Keynote 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:

Adaptive Methods
Mats G. Larson, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Mats.Larson@math.umu.se

Aquaculture
Pål Lader and Arne Fredheim, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Trondheim, Norway
pal.lader@sintef.no
arne.fredheim@sintef.no

Arctic Challenges
Sveinung Løset, Norwegian University of Science and Technologies, Trondheim, Norway
sveinung.loset@ntnu.no

Environmental Problems in Marine Engineering
Julio Garcia and Pedro Arnau, UPC/CIMNE, Barcelona Spain
julio@compassis.com
parnau@cimne.upc.edu

Fluid-Structure Interactions
Yuri Bazilevs and Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
jbazilevs@ucsd.edu
tezduyar@gmail.com

Grand Challenges in Marine Engineering
Pål Bergan and Geir Skeie, DNV, Oslo, Norway
Paal.Bergan@dnv.com
Geir.Skeie@dnv.com

Isogeometric Analysis
Thomas J. R. Hughes and Yuri Bazilevs, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
hughes@ices.utexas.edu
bazily@ices.utexas.edu

Multiscale Modelling
Trond  Kvamsdal and Kjell Magne Mathisen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Trond.Kvamsdal@sintef.no
kjell.mathisen@bygg.ntnu.no