Confirmed Plenary and Semi-Plenary Speakers COMPDYN/UNCECOMP 2021

Sondipon Adhikari
Swansea University, United Kingdom
"The role of microstructure uncertainty on broadband homogeneous properties of lattice materials"
Peter Betsch
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
"Inverse dynamics simulation of underactuated mechanical systems"
Alireza Doostan
University of Colorado, USA
"Scalable Design Optimization Under Uncertainty: Stochastic Gradient Approaches"
Denis Duhamel
ENPC - Laboratoire Navier, France
"Some recent advances in the Wave Finite Element method"
Fernando Fraternali 
University of Salerno (Diciv), Italy
"On the Focusing of Mechanical Waves Through Tensegrity Metamaterials"
Hong Hao
Curtin University, Australia
"Challenges for High-Fidelity Numerical Predictions of Structural Damage and Fragmentation subjected to Extreme Dynamic Loading"
Muneo Hori
The University of Tokyo, Japan
"Application of high performance computing to structural safety evaluation for ground motion and fault displacement"
Alexander Idesman
Texas Tech University, USA
"A New Numerical Approach to the Solution of PDEs with Optimal Accuracy on Irregular Domains and Cartesian Meshes. Application to the Wave, Heat, Helmholtz, Poisson and Elasticity Equations"
Boris Jeremic
University of California, USA
"Forward and Backward Uncertainty Propagation in Computational Earthquake Engineering"
Hector Jensen
Santa Maria Technical University, Chile
"A Unified Stochastic Framework For Reliability-Based Design Optimization Of Structural Dynamical Systems"
Chao Jiang
Hunan University, China
"Interval Process Model for Dynamic Uncertainty Quantification"
George Karniadakis
Brown University, USA
"Multi-fidelity Bayesian Neural Networks: Algorithms and Applications".
Petros Koumoutsakos
Harvard University, USA
"Data as models for blood and water".
Geert Lombaert
KU Leuven, Belgium
"State, input, and parameter estimation for monitoring of civil engineering structures".
Jean-Mathieu Mencik
INSA Centre Val de Loire, France
"Dynamic analysis of periodic structures and metamaterials via wave approaches and finite element procedures"
Gabriele Milani
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
"Seismic vulnerability of masonry monumental structures: a simple adaptive NURBS FE approach for the limit and the subsequent non-linear dynamic analysis with few dofs".
David Moens
KU Leuven, Belgium
"Recent advances in interval field uncertainty modelling for large-scale finite element models”
Giuseppe Muscolino
Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
“Seismic Analysis of Structural Systems Subjected to Fully Non-stationary Artificial Accelerograms”
Fabio Nobile
EPFL SB MATH CSQI, Switzerland
"Hierarchical sampling methods for Bayesian inverse problems and data assimilation".
Bruno Sudret
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Recent Developments on Surrogate Models for Stochastic Simulators".
Raul Tempone
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Mathematics for Uncertainty Quantification, RWTH Aachen University
"Combining Hierarchical Approximation with Importance Sampling: Approximation and Optimization techniques"
Shinobu Yoshimura
The University of Tokyo, Japan
"Simulations of Flow-induced Vibration and Fatigue Damage of Large Scale Offshore Wind Turbine Using FUGAKU Computer"