Day 1, Wednesday May 14th

13:00-14:00 Registration of participants
14:00 Welcome address
14:15 Discrete Element Methods (DEM)
Fundamentals and Applications 1 R. Owen, Y. Feng
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Discrete Element Methods (DEM)
Fundamentals and Applications 2 R. Owen, Y. Feng
19:00 Course Reception

Day 2, Thursday May 15th

8:30 DEM for Granular Materials,
P. Wriggers
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Coupling of DEM with FEM. Theory and
Applications, J. Rojek
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics.
Fundamentals and applications, J. Bonet
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Multiscale, Multiresolution Theory for
Simulating Mechanical Response in Terms of
the Underlying Heterogeneous Microstructure W.K. Liu
19:30 End of day 2

Day 3, Friday May 16th

8:30 The Particle Finite Element Method
(PFEM),
E. Oñate
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 The PFEM for Fluid-Structure Interaction
Problems, S. Idelsohn
12:30 Possibilities of PFEM in Material Forming
Processes,
X. Oliver
14:00 Lunch
15:00 PFEM. Applications in Civil and Marine
Engineering,
E. Oñate
16:30 Round Table on Perspectives of
Particle-based Methods
17:00 Course closure.
Farewell Cocktail