Computational Methods for Advanced Composites
Organizer - Pedro Camanho (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal)

• Plenary talk
Moving surfaces and interfaces calculation in material forming
Francisco Javier Llorca Martínez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)

• Invited talk
On the prediction of failure in laminated composites
Silvestre Pinho (Imperial College, UK)

• Invited talk
Title to be announced
Joris Remmers (University of Delft, The Netherlands)

Contact Mechanics
Organizer - Marius Cocou (Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique CNRS, France)

• Plenary talk
Stability of quasi-static paths of finite-dimensional systems with Coulomb friction and persistent contact
João Martins (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

• Invited talk
Recent progresses in the modeling of material behavior
Gianpietro Del Piero (Università di Ferrara, Italy)

• Invited talk
Existence and uniqueness for quasistatic contact problems with friction
Lars-Erik Andersson (Linköping University, Sweden)

Mathematics and the Atmospheric Sciences
Organizer - João Teixeira (NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy)

• Plenary talk
Weather forecasting: It's about dynamics, it is not about statistics
Kevin Judd (University of Western Australia, Australia)

• Invited talk
Flux form, conservative semi-Lagrangian schemes
Luca Bonaventura (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

• Invited talk
Cloud structures and organisation
A. Pier Siebesma (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)

Modelling of Industrial Processes
Organizer - Luisa Silva (ENSMP, France)

• Plenary talk
Moving surfaces and interfaces calculation in material forming
Thierry Coupez (CEMEF, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)

• Invited talk
Non-local models for localization in large deformations
José César de Sá (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal)

• Invited talk
Title to be announced
Ramon Codina (CIMNE, University of Catalunha, Spain)

Numerical Analysis of Thin Structures
Organizer - Lourenço Beirão da Veiga (University of Milan, Italy)

• Plenary talk
Fundamental and applicative challenges in the modeling and computations of shells
Dominique Chapelle (INRIA, France)

• Invited talk
A-posteriori error estimates for the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem
Carlo Lovadina (University of Pavia, Italy)

• Invited talk
Numerical shell eigenproblem benchmarks
Harri Hakula (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

Ocean Dynamics
Organizer - Aires dos Santos (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal).

• Plenary talk
Global ocean state estimation
Rui Ponte (Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc, USA)

• Invited talk
Operational oceanography: zoom-in modeling for local applications
Emanuel Ferreira Coelho (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)

• Invited talk
Towards an hydrodynamic an biogeochemical operational model of the Portuguese coast
Paulo Chambel (Hidromod, Modelação em Engenharia, Lda, Portugal)

• Invited talk
Mode water variability diagnosed from an eddy-permitting reanalysis of the North Atlantic
Maria Valdivieso da Costa (ACTIMAR, France)

• Invited talk
Processes over submarine canyons
Henrique Coelho (Hidromod, Modelação em Engenharia, Lda, Portugal)