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Back-to-back semi-plenaries:
- A dialogue between experiments and geometric computation on the mechanics of coiling spaghetti

Pedro M. Reis
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- A dialogue between experiments and geometric computation on the mechanics of coiling spaghetti
Eitan Grinspun
Computer Science Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Discrete models of distributed fracture and mass transport in cement-based composites
John E. Bolander
University of California, Davis
- Mimetic Finite Differences in Structural Mechanics
Franco Brezzi
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, Italy
- Archetype-blending Continuum (ABC) Theory
Wing Kam Liu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
- Non-intrusive coupling: an attempt to merge industrial and research software capabilities
Olivier Allix
Pres/Universud Paris LMT, ENS Cachan
Université Paris 6
- Moving Particle Simulation for Fluid Dynamics - Recent Developments and Applications -
Seichi Koshizuka
Department of Nuclear Engineering
University of Tokyo
- Multiscale simulation of the blood- wall interactions with applications to cardiovascular diseases
Marie Oshima
Institute of Industrial Science
University of Tokyo
- Error controlled adaptive multi-scale analysis fractured media using XFEM
Peter Wriggers
Institute of Continuum Mechanics
Leibniz Universitat Hannover
- The Newton method for series solutions of nonlinear operator equations in irregular domains
Andrew Leung
Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
- Dynamic sub-grid scales in the finite element approximation of the low Mach number equations
Ramon Codina
Departament de Resistencia de Materials i Estructures a l'Enginyeria / CIMNE
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Recent Advances in Real-Time Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sergio Idelsohn
National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
CIMNE, UPC, Barcelona
- Mechanics of Rate-Sensitive Polymeric Membranes - Experiments, Modeling and Computations
Antony Patrick Selvadurai
Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
McGill University
- Dealing with Application Development, Portability and Performance
Osni Marques
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
- Discrete Stability, Least Squares with a Twist and the DPG Method with Optimal Test Functions
Leszek F. Demkowicz
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
University of Texas at Austin
- The Thick Level Set model (TLS) for damage growth and transition to fracture
Nicolas Moes
Ecole Centrale of Nantes
- Computational Challenges to Cure a Plague of Multi-Decade Creep Damage in Concrete Infrastructure
Zdenek Bazant
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- On the Design Optimization of Composite Smart Structures
Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva
Polytechnic School at University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Anatomically detailed models of the cardiovascular system
Pablo Javier Blanco
National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC/MCT)
National Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine Assisted by Scientific Computing
- Progress on the finite element simulation of turbidity currents
Álvaro Coutinho
COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Djordje Peric
College of Engineering, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Kumar Tamma
University of Minnesota
- Model reduction in uncertainty quantification: An interplay between basis and measure adaptation
Roger Ghanem
University of Southern California
Kai-Uwe Bletzinger
Technical University of Munich
- Automatic FE Modeling of Corroded Pipelines Ready for Daily Industrial Simulation
Paulo Lyra
Federal University of Pernambuco
- The Numeric Offshore Tank: a Simulation Tool for Deep Water Oil & Gas Exploitation Systems
Kazuo Nishimoto
Polytechnic School at University of São Paulo
- Topology Optimization: Theory, Computations, and Novel Applications
Glaucio H. Paulino
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- The boundary element method applied to anisotropic materials
Eder Lima de Albuquerque
University of Brasilia, Brazil